Philip Gerrans

Dr Philip Gerrans

Professor

School of Humanities

Faculty of Arts, Business, Law and Economics

Eligible to supervise Masters and PhD - email supervisor to discuss availability.


My main research interest is the use of psychological disorder to study the mind. I have written on developmental disorders (autism and Williams syndrome), cognitive neuropsychiatry, on moral psychopathologies (such as psychopathology) and the emotions as well as a large monograph and associated series of papers on delusion and disorders of rationality. I am an Associate of the Swiss Centre for Affective Sciences where I collaborate with philosophers psychologists and neuroscientists. Currently I am completing a project on the relationship between emotional processing and self-representation with an emphasis on psychiatric disorders. Chris Letheby and I have just commenced a project on philosophical issues raised by the nature of psychedelic experience. In all these cases my focus is on the role of computational models linking experience to neural processing.

 

 

  • Appointments

    Date Position Institution name
    2018 - ongoing VIsiting Professor Mahidol University International College
    2018 - ongoing Visiting Professor Swiss Centre For Affective Sciences
    2003 - ongoing VIsiting Professor Simon Fraser University
  • Research Interests

 

 

  • Current Higher Degree by Research Supervision (University of Adelaide)

    Date Role Research Topic Program Degree Type Student Load Student Name
    2024 Principal Supervisor Active Inference and Psychiatry Master of Philosophy Master Full Time Mr Samuel Madsen
    2024 Principal Supervisor AI and Accountability: Transparency, Explainability, and Accounting for Responsibility
    Gaps
    Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Michael Lazarou
  • Past Higher Degree by Research Supervision (University of Adelaide)

    Date Role Research Topic Program Degree Type Student Load Student Name
    2020 - 2022 Co-Supervisor Self-Deception and Wilful Ignorance: ‘Self-induced, purported ignorance?’ Master of Philosophy Master Part Time Ms Margaret Leila Penhall-Jones
    2020 - 2022 Principal Supervisor To Blame or Not to Blame: Respect, Fittingness, and Standing Master of Philosophy Master Full Time Mr Henry Littleton Phillips
    2020 - 2022 Principal Supervisor Moral Agency Master of Philosophy Master Part Time Mr Timothy Nailer
    2011 - 2013 Co-Supervisor Understanding is Simulating: a Defence of Embodied Linguistic Comprehension Master of Philosophy Master Full Time Dr Christopher Edward Ross Letheby
    2006 - 2013 Principal Supervisor Moral Competence and the Psychopath Master of Arts Master Part Time Mr Matthew Tieu
  • Position: Professor
  • Phone: 83135297
  • Email: philip.gerrans@adelaide.edu.au
  • Fax: 83134341
  • Campus: North Terrace
  • Building: Napier, floor 7
  • Org Unit: School of Humanities

Connect With Me
External Profiles