Cordelia Fine
BA (Hons), MPhil, PhD
Contact details:
| email: cfine@unimelb.edu.au |
My training is in experimental psychology (Oxford University), criminology (Cambridge University) and cognitive neuroscience (University College London), but since the completion of my PhD I have held research positions in philosophy departments, and my work has been interdisciplinary. My interests lie in the social, ethical and philosophical implications of social psychological and neuroscientific research.
I’m also the author of two popular psychology books, A Mind of Its Own: How your Brain Distorts and Deceives and Delusions of Gender: The Real Science Behind Sex Differences, and I write regularly for the popular media. More information about my work is available at my personal website: www.cordeliafine.com
Research Interests:
- Moral psychology
- Social psychology of gender
- Neuroethics
- Marketing ethics
- Science communication
Professional Associations, Memberships & Awards:
- Society of Authors (UK)
- Society of Authors (Australia)
Selected Publications: |
Book Chapters:
Kennett J & Fine C (2007). Internalism and the evidence from psychopaths and 'acquired sociopathy'. In 'Vol 3, The Neuroscience of Morality: Emotion, Disease and Development. Ed. W. Sinnott-Armstrong. Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press.
Kennett J & Fine C (2007). Could there be an empirical test for internalism? In 'Vol 3, The Neuroscience of Morality: Emotion, Disease and Development. Ed. W. Sinnott-Armstrong. Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press.
Refereed Journal Articles:
Kennett J & Fine C (2009). Will the real moral judgment please stand up? Ethical Theory & Moral Practice 12: 77-96.
Nairn A & Fine C (2008). Not seeing the wood for the imaginary trees. Or, who's messing with my article? A response to Ambler. International Journal of Advertising 27(5): 896-908.
Nairn A & Fine C (2008) Who's messing with my mind? The implications of dual processing models for the ethics of marketing to children. International Journal of Marketing 27(3): 447-470.
Fine C (2008). Will working mothers' brains explode? The popular new genre of neurosexism. Neuroethics 1 (1): 69-72.
Fine C, Gardner M, Craigie J & Gold I (2007). Hopping, skipping or jumping to conclusions? Clarifying the role of the JTC bias in delusions. Cognitive Neuropsychiatry 12(1): 46-77.
Fine C. (2006). Is the emotional dog wagging the rational tail or chasing it? Unleashing reason in Haidt's social intuitionist model of moral judgment. Philosophical Explorations 9(1): 83-98.
Mitchell DGV, Fine C, Richell RA, Newman C, Lumsden J, Blair KS, Blair RJR (2006). Instrumental learning and relearning in individuals with psychopathy and in patients with lesions involving the amygdala or orbitofrontal cortex. Neuropsychology 20(3): 280-289.
Fine C, Craigie J & Gold I. (2005). Damned if you do; damned if you don't: the impasse in cognitive models of the Capgras delusion. Philosophy, Psychiatry & Psychology 12(2):143-151.
Fine C, Craigie J & Gold I. (2005). The explanation approach to delusion. Philosophy, Psychiatry & Psychology 12(2): 159-163.
Fine C & Kennett J. (2004). Mental impairment, moral understanding and criminal responsibility: Psychopathy and the purposes of punishment. International Journal of Law and Psychiatry, 27: 425-443.
Fine C, Lumsden J & Blair RJR. (2001). Dissociation between theory of mind and executive functions in a patient with early left amygdala damage. Brain, 124: 287-298.
Fine C & Blair RJR. (2000). The cognitive and emotional effects of amygdala damage. Neurocase, 6: 435-438.
Fine C & Blair RJR. (1999). Computations in extraversion. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 22(3): 521-523.