Michael Wee

Biography

I am a Postdoctoral Researcher in Global Mental Health Ethics and a member of the Neuroscience, Ethics & Society (NEUROSEC) research group–an interdisciplinary group based in the University of Oxford Department of Psychiatry. I am currently working on the ethics of genomic research for psychiatric disorders, with a particular interest in the philosophical issues surrounding informed consent, the intersection between philosophy of psychiatry and disability studies, as well as the ontology of cell lines and other novel biological entities used in research.

Previously, I completed a PhD in Philosophy at the University of Durham, with a thesis entitled ‘Action and Necessity: Wittgenstein’s “On Certainty” and the Foundations of Ethics’. I am interested in the relationship between language and action theory, and in approaches to moral philosophy influenced by thinkers such as Wittgenstein, Anscombe, von Wright and Thompson.

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