June 1, 2005

Speaker Biographies

Martha Farah is the Bob and Arlene Kogod Term Professor of Psychology and Director of Cognitive Neuroscience at the University of Pennsylvania. She has previously taught at Carnegie Mellon University. Her work spans many topics within cognitive neuroscience, including visual recognition, attention, mental imagery, semantic memory, reading, prefrontal function and, most recently, neuroethics. She has served the field through NIH and NSF review and planning groups to set research funding priorities (NINDS and NIMH), numerous editorial boards and action editorships, varied committee work for the Society of Neuroscience, and the governing board of the Cognitive Science Society. She is the author of Visual Agnosia (MIT Press, 1990: 2nd edition, 2004) and The Cognitive Neuroscience of Vision (Blackwell, 2000), and editor of a number of books, including Patient-based Approaches to Cognitive Neuroscience (MIT Press, 2000). Her awards include the APA Early Career Contribution Award, The Troland Award of the National Academy of Sciences, and a Guggenheim Fellowship.

Henry T. (Hank) Greely is the Deane F. and Kate Edelman Johnson Professor of Law and a professor, by courtesy, of genetics at Stanford University. He specializes in health law and policy and in legal and social issues arising from advances in the biosciences. He has written on issues concerning genetic testing, human cloning, the ethics of human genetics research, and policy issues in the health care financing system, among other things. He chairs the steering committee of the Stanford University Center for Biomedical Ethics; directs the Center for Law and the Biosciences; and co-directs the Stanford Program on Genomics, Ethics, and Society. After graduating law school, Mr. Greely clerked for Judge John Minor Wisdom on the United States Court of Appeals and for Justice Potter Stewart of the United States Supreme Court. During the Carter administration, he worked in the Departments of Defense and Energy. Mr. Greely entered private practice in Los Angeles in 1981 as a litigator with the law firm of Tuttle & Taylor, Inc.

Joshua Greene is a philosopher and cognitive neuroscientist. He is currently a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Psychology and Center for the Study of Brain, Mind, and Behavior at Princeton University, where his research is supported by a Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award from the NIH. In 2006 he will join the Department of Psychology at Harvard University as an assistant professor. His experimental research uses behavioral methods coupled with functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to examine the neural bases of morality, focusing on the interplay between emotional and "cognitive" processes in moral decision-making. In 1999 Greene began his current line of experimental research in collaboration with Jonathan Cohen, Leigh Nystrom, and John Darley, while pursuing a Ph.D. in philosophy at Princeton University. His dissertation, which he completed in 2002 and which he is preparing to turn into a book, is an examination of the foundations of ethics informed by recent work in psychology, neuroscience, and evolutionary theory.

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