About the Authors

Abstract

Katinka Evers conducted her doctoral studies in philosophy at Balliol College, University of Oxford, at the Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University Canberra, and at Lund University, Sweden, where she received her doctoral degree in 1991. She has been a research fellow at Balliol College, University of Oxford (1994), at the Department of Philosophy and Human Rights Centre, University of Essex (1996-1997), invited professor at the University of Tasmania Hobart (1999), at École Normale Suprieure Paris (2002), and at Collège de France Paris (2006-2007). From 1997 to 2002 she was the executive director for the Standing Committee on Responsibility and Ethics in Science of the International Council for Science. Today she leads the neuroethics research team at the Centre for Research Ethis and Bioethics at Uppsala University, where her main interests are neuroethics and the neural basis of consciousness. She has recently been appointed honorary professor at Universidad Central de Chile. Address: Prof. Dr. Katinka Evers, Centre for Research Ethics and Bioethics, Husargatan 3, Uppsala University, 75122 Uppsala, Sweden; email: Kathinka.Evers@crb.uu.se