Panayiota Vassilopoulou ([email protected]) is Reader in Philosophy at the University of Liverpool. She publishes in Neoplatonism and Aesthetics and has co-edited Thought: A Philosophical History (Routledge, 2021) and Late Antique Epistemology: Other Ways to Truth (Palgrave Macmillan, 2009). She has held numerous residencies with leading cultural and health institutions in the UK and abroad, pioneering a new model for practicing philosophy with non-academic publics.

Sofia Jeppsson ([email protected]) is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Umeå University in northern Sweden. She started her career publishing on free will, moral responsibility, and applied ethics. In later years, she has increasingly focused on the philosophy of psychiatry and madness, an interest that grew out of her previous philosophical work as well as her own experience with psychosis. In her 2021 paper ‘Psychosis and Intelligibility’ in Philosophy, Psychology, and Psychiatry she shows that more psychosis phenomena than previously believed can be rendered at least somewhat intelligible. ‘Exemption, Self-Exemption and Compassionate Self-Excuse’, published in 2022 in the International Mad Studies Journal and soon to appear as a chapter in the Bloomsbury Guide to the Philosophy of Disability, discusses complicated questions of agency and moral responsibility in madness. ‘Radical Psychotic Doubt and Epistemology’, published in 2022 in Philosophical Psychology, uses madness to challenge certain common epistemological arguments and assumptions.

Sam Fellowes ([email protected]) is an autistic individual who did his PhD at Lancaster University in Philosophy of Psychiatry and his Masters at Leeds University in History and Philosophy of Science. He has written on the metaphysical and epistemological status of psychiatric diagnoses. He has aimed to increase the scientific status of psychiatric diagnoses by portraying them as idealised models that abstract away from particular individuals but then guide, building more specific models of particular individuals. He has more recently become interested in the role of experts-by-experience in psychiatric research, seeking to explore how it relates to idealisations and theory-laden observations.

Zsuzsanna Chappell ([email protected]) is currently an independent scholar specialising in the fields of philosophy of psychiatry, moral, and social philosophy. She is especially interested in ethical problems associated with mental health, and issues related to the diversity in our mental experiences. She received her PhD from the London School of Economics and held academic positions at the London School of Economics and the University of Manchester. Her previous research is in the area of political philosophy and democratic theory. She is the author of Deliberative Democracy: A Critical Introduction (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012).

Lucienne Spencer ([email protected]) is a postdoctoral researcher for the Wellcome Trust funded project ‘Renewing Phenomenological Psychopathology’ at the Institute of Mental Health, University of Birmingham. She completed her SWW-DTP funded PhD in Philosophy at the University of Bristol in 2021 under Prof. Havi Carel. Her research primarily focuses on phenomenology, epistemic injustice, and the philosophy of psychiatry. She is also a member of the executive committee for the Society for Women in Philosophy, UK. Her website is https://luciennespencer.com/.

Ian James Kidd ([email protected]) teaches and researches philosophy at the University of Nottingham. His research interests include topics in epistemology, philosophy of illness and psychiatry, and phenomenology. His website is www.ianjameskidd.weebly.com.

Alana Wilde ([email protected]) is a NWCDTP funded PhD candidate at Manchester Metropolitan University, supervised by Dr Anna Bergqvist and Dr David Crepaz-Keay (Mental Health Foundation). Her thesis argues that the exclusion of experts by experience in mental health research projects is a form of epistemic oppression. She primarily works in the philosophy of psychiatry and mental health space, but has research interests also in social epistemology, philosophy of disability, and feminist philosophy.

Edward Harcourt ([email protected]) is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of Keble College. He recently completed a four-year secondment to the UKRI Arts and Humanities Research Council as Director of Research, Strategy and Innovation. In addition to his role in the Philosophy Faculty, he is Professor of Philosophy in Oxford's Department of Psychiatry where he leads on Patient and Public Involvement for the Oxford Health Biomedical Research Centre. His research interests lie on the boundaries between ethics and the philosophy of mind, and include neo-Aristotelianism and child development, ethical dimensions of psychoanalysis and psychotherapy, the moral emotions, love and the virtues, and Nietzsche's ethics; the philosophy of mental health and mental illness; literature and philosophy; and Wittgenstein.

David Crepaz-Keay ([email protected]) is Head of Research and Applied Learning at the Mental Health Foundation, where he is responsible for developing and delivering research in England and contributing to UK wide and international research. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society for Public Health and of the Institute for Mental Health. David has extensive personal experience of using mental health services and has used this experience to inform his academic research. He was a founding member of the National Survivor User Network (NSUN), a leading organisation led by people with direct experience of mental health service use. He also co-chairs the International Society for Psychiatric Genetics’ Ethics, Policy and Public Position committee and has written widely on mental health and public mental health.

Anna Bergqvist ([email protected]) is Reader in Philosophy at Manchester Metropolitan University and Theory Network lead for the Values-Based Theory Network at St Catherine's Collaborating Centre for Values-Based Practice at the University of Oxford. She is also Senior Editor of the journal Philosophy, Psychiatry and Psychology. She specializes in metaethics (especially moral perception and moral psychology) and philosophy of psychiatry and mind with a focus on moral particularism, self-ownership, and relational moral agency. She is editor of Evaluative Perception (Oxford University Press, 2018) and Philosophy and Museums: Essays on the Philosophy of Museums (Cambridge University Press, 2016), and presently prepares as lead editor The Handbook Oxford of Philosophy and Public Mental Health (under contract with Oxford University Press). Bergqvist serves as Secretary of the World Psychiatric Association (WPA) Section for Philosophy & Humanities in Psychiatry and is an Executive Committee Member of the Royal College of Psychiatry Special Interest Group in Philosophy. She is also Centre Fellow at the Centre for Ethics as Study in Human Values at the University of Pardubice and External Research Fellow at VID Specialized University in Oslo.

Mohammed Abouelleil Rashed ([email protected]) is a philosopher and psychiatrist with interests in the philosophy of madness, culture, and mental health. His recent research examined social identity and the philosophy and politics of recognition in the context of Mad Pride and Mad-positive activism. He is the author of Madness and the Demand for Recognition (Oxford University Press, 2019).

K.W.M. (Bill) Fulford ([email protected]) is a Fellow of St Catherine's College and Member of the Philosophy Faculty, University of Oxford; Emeritus Professor of Philosophy and Mental Health, University of Warwick; and Founder Director of the Collaborating Centre for Values-Based Practice, St Catherine's College, Oxford (valuesbasedpractice.org). His previous posts include Honorary Consultant Psychiatrist, University of Oxford, and Special Adviser for Values-Based Practice in the UK Department of Health, London. He is Founding Editor and Chair of the Advisory Board of Philosophy, Psychiatry, & Psychology (PPP). He has published widely on philosophical and ethical aspects of mental health, including Moral Theory and Medical Practice, The Oxford Textbook of Philosophy and Psychiatry, The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy and Psychiatry and Essential Values-Based Practice. He edits the Cambridge University Press book series on Values-Based Medicine. He was awarded the 2022 Margrit Egnér Foundation Award and the 2023 Aristotle Gold Medal.

Ashok Handa ([email protected]) is Professor of Vascular Surgery at Oxford University and Honorary Consultant Vascular Surgeon at the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford. He has been the Director for Surgical Education for Oxford University since 2001. He is Director of the Collaborating Centre for Values-Based Practice in Health and Social Care based at St Catherine's College, Oxford, and responsible for leading on education and research for the centre. He is Fellow in Clinical Medicine and Tutor for Graduates at St Catherine's College, responsible for 450 graduates across all disciplines. He has over 200 publications in vascular surgery, surgical education, patient safety, and many on the topic of values-based practice, shared decision-making, and consent. He is the Principle Investigator of the OxAAA and OxPVD studies in vascular surgery.