Jillian Craigie
Email: jmcra3@student.monash.edu
Jill is a PhD is student in the School of Philosophy and Bioethics, Monash University, Australia. She has a B.Sc. Hons (ANU/University of Melbourne) in molecular neuroscience, and recently held a visiting teaching position in the Department of Philosophy at Dartmouth College. Her current research interests are in the relation between studies of moral cognition in the psychological and brain sciences, and meta-ethical theories of moral judgment.
Thesis Topic:
"The moral brain: understanding the implications of moral cognition research for theories of moral judgment in ethical theory."
Supervisors:
Ian Gold and Dirk Baltzly.
Education:
2003 , Ph.D. Student, Monash University, Topic: The moral brain: understanding the implications of moral cognition research for theories of moral judgment in meta-ethics. Supervisors: Dr. Jeanette Kennett & Dr. Ian Gold
1999, B.Sc. Hons., first class, University of Melbourne, Topic: Molecular identification of a putative mechanotransduction mechanism in intrinsic primary afferent neurons of the guinea pig enteric nervous system. Supervisor: Prof. John Furness
1995 1997, B.Sc., Australian National University, Majoring in molecular biology and neuroscience.
Academic Experience:
Teaching
PHL3350 Moral Psychology, School of Philosophy and Bioethics, Monash University, Melbourne.
- Semester 2, 2006, Guest lecturer
BNS3052 Drugs and altered awarenessPhilosophical perspectives on consciousness, Department of Psychology, Monash University, Melbourne.
- Semester 2, 2003, Guest lecturer
- Semester 2, 2006, Guest lecturer
PHL1030 Analysing Arguments, School of Philosophy and Bioethics, Monash University, Melbourne.
- Semester 1, 2005, Tutor
Phil 3: Reason and Argument, Department of Philosophy, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH.
- 2004 Winter, Visiting Professor
- 2004 Fall, Visiting Professor
Research
2005 June 2006 December, Research Officer, Center for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics, Department of Philosophy, University of Melbourne, Melbourne. ARC grant project: Moral Responsibility and Cognitive Science: Agency, Empathy and Theory of Mind. Chief Investigators: Dr. Neil Levy & Dr. Tim Bayne
2001-03, Research assistant, Department of Philosophy, Monash University, Melbourne. ARC grant project: Irrationality and Explanation in Schizophrenia: A case study in the foundations of neuroscience, Chief Investigator: Dr. Ian Gold.
2000, Research assistant, Department of Medicine, University of Melbourne, Melbourne. Molecular endocrinology laboratory of Dr. Peter Wookey.
Project Management
2002-03, Project manager, Monash University, Melbourne. Monash Strategic Innovations Project: 'Arguments': Enhancing Skills in Critical Thinking and Reasoning.
Other Academic Activities
2005 President of the Monash Philosophy Postgraduate Association.
2005 & 2006, Guest speaker: Heart of Philosophy cafés, Melbourne.
2004 May, Fellow, Humanities Institute: The Psychology and Biology of Morality, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH.
2003, Referee, Monash Bioethics Review, Melbourne.
2003-06, Workshop presenter, Monash Centre for Public Philosophy, Schools Program - workshops for years 10, 11 & 12 at schools across Melbourne.
Publications:
- Fine, C, Craigie, J. & Gold, I. (in press) Reasoning and delusion formation: Are we jumping to conclusions?, Cognitive Neuropsychiatry.
- Fine, C, Craigie, J. & Gold, I. (2005) Damned if you do, damned if you don't: The impasse in cognitive accounts of the Capgras delusion, Philosophy, Psychiatry, & Psychology, 12(2): 143-59.
- Neil, D & Craigie, J (2004) The ethics of pharmacogenomics, Monash Bioethics Review, 23(2): 9-20.
- Brasier, G., Tikellis, C., Xuereb, L., Craigie, J., Casley, D., Kovacs, C. S., Fudge, N. J., Kalnins, R., Cooper, M. E. & Wookey, P. (2004) Novel hexad repeats conserved in a putative transporter with restricted expression in cell types associated with growth, calcium exchange and homeostasis, Experimental Cell Research, 293: 31-42.
Conference Presentations:
- 2006, Craigie, J., Affect, memory, and moral judgment, CAPPE workshop: Issues in the research and application of chemo-prophylactic drugs for the treatment of traumatic stress, University of Melbourne, Melbourne.
- 2002, Craigie, J. & Gold, I., Unification in Psychiatry, The 14th Annual Meeting of the Association for the Advancement of Philosophy in Psychiatry, Philadelphia, PA. USA.
- 2002, Little, K. & Craigie, J., Teaching critical thinking, 2nd Australian Conference on the Education of Girls in the 21st Century, Melbourne.