Present Academic Position

• Assistant Professor, Philosophy and Religious Studies, Dowling College, started 1998

• Visiting Assistant Professor at University of Kentucky 1994 - 1998
• Visiting Assistant Professor at Georgetown University 1992 - 1994

• Princeton University September 1986 - 1992 Ph.D. in Philosophy: Dissertation, 'The Limits of Irrationality,' granted January 1996
• King's College London October 1985 - June 1986 M.Sc. with Distinction in History and Philosophy of Science, Thesis, 'The Role of Observation in Science'

• Wadham College, Oxford University October 1981 - June 1985 B.A., First Class Honours in Physics and Philosophy

• Fellowship with full tuition to Princeton University 1986 - 1992
• British Academy Fellowship 1985 - 1986
• College Scholarship to Wadham College, Oxford, 1981 - 1985

• Moral Psychology
• Philosophy of Medicine and Psychiatry
• Ethical Theory

• Philosophy of Mind
• Personal Identity
• Philosophy of Science
• Philosophy of Social Science
• Philosophy of Law
• History of Philosophy
• Logic

Peer Reviewed

• (co-authored with Patricia A. Ross, Ph.D., Department of Philosophy and Center for Philosophy of Science, University of Minnesota) Report on the NEH Summer Institute on Mind, Self, and Psychopathology, led by Jennifer Whiting and Louis Sass, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 1998, forthcoming in Philosophy, Psychiatry, and Psychology.
• 'The Neuron Doctrine in Psychiatry,' (Peer Commentary on 'The Neuron Doctrine' by Ian Gold and Daniel Stoljar), Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 1999, forthcoming.
• 'Why Criteria of Involuntariness are Value-Laden,' forthcoming in a book edited by John Sadler of the proceedings of Values in Psychiatric Nosology: A Conference for Philosophers and Mental Health Professionals, sponsored by the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas (book contract signed).
• Entry for 'Philosophy of Psychiatry' forthcoming in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
• Review Discussion of Jennifer Radden's Divided Minds and Successive Selves, The Journal of Mind and Behavior, Vol. 19, No. 1, 1998, pp. 91-101.
• 'Medicating Children: The Case of Ritalin,' Bioethics, Vol. 11, No. 3&4, 1997, pp. 228-240.
• 'Degrees of Personhood,' The Journal of Medicine and Philosophy , Vol. 22, No. 2, 1997, pp. 173-197.
• 'Direct intentional self-deception is also real,' (Peer Commentary on 'Real Self-Deception' by Alfred Mele), Behavioral and Brain Sciences, Vol. 20, No. 1, 1997.
• 'Addiction needs philosophical explanation, not mere redescription,' (Peer Commentary on 'Resolving the contradictions of addiction' by G. M. Heyman), Behavioral and Brain Sciences, Vol. 19, No. 4, 1996, pp. 592-593.


Book Reviews and Other Writing
 

• "The Problem of Evil," an article on psychiatry and evil behavior, forthcoming in The Philosophers' Magazine.
• Review of Transforming Madness, by Jay Neugeboren, Metapsychology, 4 September, 1999.
• "Conferences feature philosophy of psychiatry," What's Happening in Philosophy of Psychiatry, August 18, 1999.
• Review of Plato, Not Prozac! by Lou Marinoff, Metapsychology, 11 August, 1999.
• Review of Bridget Jones's Diary by Helen Fielding, Metapsychology, 4 August, 1999.
• "On Introspecting One's Serotonin Levels," Philosophy and Psychiatry in the Media, AAPP Newsletter, July 1999.
• Review of Exploding the Gene Myth by Ruth Hubbard and Elijah Wald, Metapsychology, 5 July 1999.
• Review of The Biotech Century by Jeremy Rifkin, Metapsychology, 5 July, 1999.
• Review of The Perfect Baby, by Glenn McGee, Metapsychology, 30 June, 1999.
• Review of Living With One’s Past, by Norman S. Care, Metapsychology, 10 June, 1999.
• Review of Without Conscience, by Robert D. Hare, Metapsychology, 26 April, 1999.
• Review of The Talking Cure, by Susan C. Vaughan, Metapsychology, 26 April, 1999.
• Review of Grave Matters, by Nigel Barley, in Metapsycology, 26 March, 1999
• Reviews of Daughter of the Queen of Sheba, by Jacki Lyden, and Mad House: Growing Up in the Shadow of Mentally Ill Siblings, by Clea Simon, in Metapsychology, 9 March, 1999
• "Mind-Reading and Folk Psychiatry," Philosophy and Psychiatry in the Media, AAPP Newsletter, Janurary 1999.
• Review of Driving My Father, by Susan Wicks, Metapsychology, 10 October 1998
• "Beyond the Baconian Project," a review of To Relieve the Human Condition: Bioethics, Technology, and the Body, by Gerald P. McKenny, in Medical Humanities Review, 1998, 12, pp. 97-100.
• Reviews of Speaking of Sadness by David Karp, Dysthymia and the Spectrum of Chronic Depressions, edited by Hagop S. Akiskal and Giovanni B. Cassano, and The Cruelty of Depression by Jacques Hassoun, in Metapsychology,  Perspectives: A Mental Health Magazine, Vol. 3, Issue 4, October - December, 1998.
• Review of The Cure of Souls: Science, Values, and Psychotherapy, by Robert Woolfolk, in Metapsychology, 23 September, 1998.
• Review of Ethics of Psychiatry:Insanity, Rational Autonomy, and Mental Health Care, edited by Rem. B Edwards, Metapsychology, 12 July 1998.
• Review of The Evolution of the Emotion-Processing Mind, by Robert Langs, in PSYCHE: an interdisciplinary journal of research on consciousness, 4(11), September 1998.
• Reviews of Seeing the Crab, by Christina Middlebrook, The Undertaking, by Thomas Lynch, The Measure of Our Days, by Jerome Groopman, Let Me Make It Good: A Chronicle of My Life With Borderline Personality Disorder, by Jane Wanklin, Lost in the Mirror: An inside look at borderline personality disorder, by Richard A. Moskovitz, and An Anthropologist on Mars, by Oliver Sacks, in Perspectives: A Mental Health Magazine, Vol. 3, Issue 3, July - September, 1998.
• "The Rise of Philosophy of Psychiatry" in the Philosopher's Web Magazine 1998 Volume 2.
• Reviews of Is Long-Term Therapy Unethical? by Carol Austad, Confiding, by Susan Baur, and The Alienist, by Caleb Carr,  in Perspectives: A Mental Health Magazine, Vol. 3, Issue 2, April - June, 1998.
• Reviews of Women, Madness & Medicine, by Denise Russell, and Through the Looking Glass: Women and Borderline Personality Disorder, in Perspectives: A Mental Health Magazine, Vol. 3, Issue 1, January - March, 1998.
• Review of Imagining Robert: My Brother, Madness, and Survival: A Memoir, in Perspectives: A Mental Health Magazine, 11 November, 1997.
• Reviews of Essays on Philosophical Counseling, edited by R. Lahav and M. Tillmanns, and Hope and Dread in Psychoanalysis, by Stephen Mitchell, in Perspectives: A Mental Health Magazine, Vol. 2. Issue 4, September - October, 1997.
• Reviews of A History of Psychiatry by Edward Shorter, and Hystories, by Elaine Showalter, in Perspectives: A Mental Health Magazine, Vol. 2. Issue 3, July - August, 1997.
• Reviews of Divided Minds and Successive Selves, by Jennifer Radden, and The Rules of Insanity, by Carl Elliott, in Perspectives: A Mental Health Magazine, Vol. 2, Issue 2, May - June, 1997.
• Review of Rewriting the Soul, by Ian Hacking, The Philosophical Quarterly, 1997
• 'Prozac and Political Activism,' in Perspectives: A Mental Health Magazine, Vol. 1, Issue 4, September - October, 1996.

• Evolutionary Psychology, Antisocial Behavior, and Mental Disorder, to be given at AAPP conference on Evolutionary Theory and Psychopathology, New York City, November, 1999.
• Psychopharmacology and Personal Identity, invited presentation to be given at the Conference on the Science and Ethics of Human Enhancement, C.W. Post Campus, Long Island University, as part of Turning 2000: A Millennial Weekend at C.W. Post, October 1999.
• Measuring Prozac versus Plato: Towards an Instrumental Conception of Therapy, given at the Fifth International Conference on Philosophy and Practice, Wadham College, Oxford University, July, 1999.
• Indeterminacy of Irresistible Desires and Their Role in Psychopathology, given at the meeting of the European Society for Philosophy and Psychiatry, Warwick University, July, 1999.
• Indeterminacy of Irresistible Desires: A Problem for Folk Psychology?,  given at the annual meeting of the Association for the Advancement of Philosophy and Psychiatry, on The Problem of Evil, Washington, DC, May 1999.
• What is Philosophical Counseling?, Faculty Colloquium, Dowling College, April 1999.
• Conceptualizing Borderline Personality Disorder, invited paper given at the Joint Centre for Bioethics, University of Toronto, June, 1998
• Considering a Feminist Critique of Prozac?: Take Valium and Wait, given at Gender, Philosophy, Psychiatry, the Annual Meeting of the Association for the Advancement of Philosophy and Psychiatry, Toronto, May 1998
• Mental Disorder: Involuntary Behavior or Malfunction?, invited paper given at the a group meeting of the Association for the Advancement of Philosophy and Psychiatry, at the Central Meeting of the American Philosophical Association, Chicago, May 1998.
• The Value in Classifying Action as Involuntary, given at Values in Psychiatric Nosology: A Conference for Philosophers and Mental Health Professionals, sponsored by the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, December 1997.
• Ethical Issues for Physicians and Psychiatrists in Psychopharmacology, invited paper given at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Toronto, for the Joint Centre for Bioethics, University of Toronto, September, 1997
• The Role of Philosophy and Philosophers Outside the Academic World: A Comparison of Bioethics and Philosophical Counseling, given at The Third International Conference on Philosophical Practice at The CUNY Graduate Center, July, 1997
• The Large-Scale Use of Psychotropic Drugs, invited presentation given at the Hastings Center, New York, April, 1997
• When Should Unhappiness Be Treated As A Mental Illness?, invited presentation given at Grand Rounds to the Department of Psychiatry, University of Kentucky, March, 1997
• Defining and Defending Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, invited paper given at Department of Philosophy, Loyola University Chicago, February, 1997
• Medicating Children: The Case of Ritalin, given at International World Congress III of Bioethics, in San Francisco, November 1996
• The Disunity of Science: Adolf Meyer's Psychiatry, given at the First History of Philosophy of Science Conference, Roanoke, VA, April 1996
• Comments on 'The Concept of Personal Identity' by Steven Rieber, given at the Pacific APA Meeting in Seattle, April 1996
• Problems with Dispositional Accounts of Unconscious Intentionality, invited paper given at Department of Philosophy, San Diego State University, San Diego, March, 1996
• Against Principles of Charity in Interpretation, invited paper given at University of Cincinnati Department of Philosophy, Invited Speaker Talk, December 1995
• Coming to Terms With the Normativity of Diagnosis in Psychiatry, given in the Works in Progress series at Case Western Reserve Center for Biomedical Ethics, May 1995
• Ethical Issues in Prescribing Psychotropic Drugs, given in Conversations in Bioethics series at Case Western Reserve Medical School, May 1995
• Naturalism about Personhood: the Implications for Medical Ethics, invited paper given at University of Kentucky Philosophy Department Lecture Series, November 1994
• Rescuing the Truth in Post-Modern Conceptions of Identity, given at conference The End(s) of Post-Modernism at Northeast Missouri State University, September 1994
• The Brave New World Of Prozac, invited paper given to University of Maryland - Baltimore County - Philosophy Society, May 1994
• Addiction, Self-Defeating Behavior, and Mental Illness, invited paper given at Department of Philosophy, City College, CUNY, New York, March 1994

• Awarded a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship at a Summer Institute on Mind, Psychopathology and Self, Cornell University, 1998

Core Courses

Western Philosophy 1

Western Philosophy 2

Ethics

Senior Seminars

Mortality in Cultural Context

Ethics in the New Genetic Era

• Graduate and Undergraduate Courses
• Ethical Theory Fall 1997
• Death, Dying, and the Quality of Life Fall 1997, Spring 1998
• Philosophy of Psychiatry Spring 1997
• Personal Identity Fall 1994, Fall 1996
• Philosophy of Law Spring 1996
• Health Care Ethics Fall 1995, Summer 1995, 1996, 1997, Spring 1998
• Irrationality and Moral Psychology Spring 1995
• Philosophy of Mind Spring 1995
• Morality and Society 1995 - 1996
• Intro. to Knowledge and Reality 1994 - 1995, 1996 - 1997, Spring 1998

• Undergraduate Courses

• Personal Identity Spring 1994
• Mental Health and Morality Fall 1993
• Philosophy of Mind Spring 1993
• Irrationality and the Unity of Mind Fall 1992
• Introduction to Philosophy 1992 - 1994

• Undergraduate Courses
• Medical Ethics (preceptor for Frances Kamm)
• Intro. to Moral Philosophy (preceptor for Elijah Millgram)
• Introductory Logic (preceptor for Martin Jones)
• Aesthetics (grader for Alexander Nehamas)
• Philosophy and the Modern Mind (preceptor for Harry Frankfurt and John Burgess)

• MIT Press
• Philosophy, Psychiatry, & Psychology (Johns Hopkins University Press Journal)

• Coordinator, Philosophy and Religious Studies, Dowling College, started Fall 1999
• Academic Standards Committee, started Fall 1999
• Title III Proposal Committee, started Spring 1999
• Data Collection Committee, Division of Arts and Humanities, Fall 1998 - Spring 1999

• 6 months aiding with teaching of MD 810: 'Physicians, Patients, and Society' class for medical students at University of Kentucky College of Medicine, January - June 1996.
• 2 months attending morning rounds at Georgetown University Hospital Mental Health In-Patient Ward, March - April 1994

• American Philosophical Association
• Association for the Advancement of Philosophy and Psychiatry
• Society for Philosophy and Psychology
• American Society for Bioethics and Humanities

• Contributor of monthly updates to The Philosophy News Service, What's Happening in Philosophy, Philosophy of Psychiatry section, started August, 1999.
• Book Review Editor  for Metapsychology: the Mental Health Net Book Review Site, from 1998, publishing 10 - 20 books per month.
• Maintained the Philosophy of Psychiatry Bibliography, from 1997.
• Ran a mailing list, PHIL-ACTION-L, on action theory and the explanation of human behavior, September 1996-June 1998.
• Contributing Editor and Regular Book Reviewer for Perspectives: A Mental Health Magazine, from 1995-1998.

Philosophy and Religious Studies, Dowling College, Idle Hour Boulevard, Oakdale, NY 11769

Phone: (516) 244-3349

E-mail: perringc@dowling.edu

Web page: http://www.angelfire.com/ms/perring

• Mark Johnston (Ph.D. dissertation advisor) Department of Philosophy, 1879 Hall, Princeton University Princeton, NJ 08544 (609) 258-4298
• Tom Beauchamp, Kennedy Institute of Ethics, Georgetown University, Washington DC 20057 (202) 687-6726 beauchat@gunet.georgetown.edu
• Henry Richardson Department of Philosophy, Georgetown University, Washington DC 20057 (202) 687-7479 richardh@gunet.georgetown.edu
• Thomas H. Murray Center for Biomedical Ethics School of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University, 10900 Euclid Avenue Cleveland, OH 44106-4976 (216) 368-6206 thm2@po.cwru.edu
• Don Howard Program in History and Philosophy of Science, 346 O'Shaughnessy, University of Notre Dame, South Bend, Indiana 46556 (219) 631-5015 Don.A.Howard.43@nd.edu

Last updated September 11, 1999