Luca Malatesti, principal investigator

Professor
Department of Philosophy, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Rijeka (Croatia)

His principal role is coordinating and taking part to the project investigations concerning the scientific status of knowledge about antisocial personality disoders and its relevance for ethical issues concerning the social response to individuals who are classified as having these conditions.

Elvio Baccarini

Professor
Department of Philosophy, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Rijeka (Croatia)

His principal role in the project is to elaborate, within the framework of public reason, forms of public or moral justifications for prescriptions concerning the preventive testing, modification and other forms of social responses to the deviant behaviour of people classified as having antisocial personality disorders.

Mia Biturajac

Doctoral student
Department of Philosophy Faculty of Humanities and social sciences, University of Rijeka (Croatia)

To write the doctoral dissertation and at least one scientific paper, Mia will carry forward empirically informed philosophical research on the notion of harm and it relevance for that of mental disoder and the ethical issues raised by social responses to individuals with antisocial personalities. 

Inti Brazil

Associate professor
Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition & Behaviour, Radboud University (The Netherlands)

His principal role in the project is enabling the other project team members to be updated in the most relevant recent scientific results and hypotheses on the categorisation, explanation, and treatment of antisocial personality disorders and psychopathy and he will help them to evaluate the statistical and ecological significance of these scientific advancements for possible applications.

Ivan Cerovac 

Postdoctoral researcher
Department of Philosophy, Faculty of Humanities and social sciences, University of Rijeka (Croatia)

He investigates, by means of empirically informed analytic philosophical research, the ethical debates concerning antisocial personality disorders. He addresses the relevant issues with insights from political philosophy.

Marko Jurjako

Assistant professor
Department of Philosophy, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Rijeka (Croatia)

His principal role is to address the interface problem. Specifically, he will investigate the possibilities of translating and integrating the scientific conceptions of psychological capacities underlying rationality with the normative concept of a person as individuated in the relevant legal and moral practices. Then, he will apply these considerations to the case of antisocial behaviour and psychopathy and investigate ethical implications.

John McMillan

Professor
Division of Health Sciences, University of Otago (New Zealand)

His principal role in the project is analysing the ethical issues presented by translating a better understanding of psychopathy and antisocial personality disorde to public policy. (He will also be involved in the work stream on normative notions of personhood).