Grant Gillett

MA MB ChB (Auckland) D Phil (Oxford) FRAC

Email: grant.gillett@otago.ac.nz

Grant studied medicine and psychology at Auckland and then specialised in neurosurgery. He completed a doctorate in philosophy and held a fellowship at Oxford before coming to Otago. He is a Neurosurgeon and Professor of Medical Ethics. Grant's interests are broad, including the philosophy of mind and the philosophy of medicine and medical ethics. He has a particular interest in the philosophies of Kant and Wittgenstein, and in post-structuralism.

He is the author of Bioethics in the Clinic: Hippocratic Reflections, Representation, Meaning and Thought (with. W K M Fulford and J Martin-Soskice), The Discursive Mind (with R. Harré), Medical Ethics (with AV Campbell, M.Charlesworth, DG Jones) and The Mind and its Discontents. He is the editor of Medicine and Moral Reasoning.

Publications include

Gillett, G., ‘Intentional Action, Moral Responsibility and Psychopaths’ in Luca Malatesti & John McMillan (eds) Responsibility and Psychopathy: Interfacing Law, Psychiatry and Philosophy, Oxford: Oxford University Press (2009)

Gillett, G., 'Autonomy Intention and Brain Events' Bioethics 2009.

Gillett, G., Subjectivity and Being Somebody: Neuroethics and Human Identity. Imprint Academic (2008)

Gillett, G., 'Cyborgs and Moral identity' Journal of Medical Ethics 32(2) (2006): 79-83.

Gillett, G., 'Clinical Medicine and the Quest for Certainty' Social Science and Medicine 58 (2004): 727-38.

Gillett, G., Bioethics in the Clinic. John Hopkins University Press (2004)

Gillett, G., ‘Dennett, Foucault and the selection of memes’ Inquiry, 42 (1999) 3-23.

Gillett, G., ‘Respectability and realism: a philosophical conversation’ Cogito, 12 (1998) 187-199.

Gillett, G., ‘Consciousness and lesser states: the evolutionary foothills of the mind’ Philosophy, 74 (1999) 331-360.

Gillett, G., 'Moral Authenticity and the Unconscious' in M. Levine (ed.) The Analytic Freud London: Routledge (2000): 177-192.

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