Boag Simon - Philosophy, science, and psychoanalysis : a critical meeting

Simon Boag is a senior lecturer in psychology at Macquarie University where he teaches personality theory, research methods, and the history and philosophy of psychology. He has published extensively in the area of Freudian repression and unconscious mental processes, philosophy of mind, and conceptual research, and is the author of Freudian Repression, the Unconscious, and the Dynamics of Inhibition (Karnac). He can be contacted at: .

Linda A. W. Brakel is associate professor (adjunct) of psychiatry, and research associate in philosophy at the University of Michigan. She is also on the faculty of Michigan Psychoanalytic Institute, and practices psychoanalysis in Ann Arbor, Michigan. She has authored and co-authored articles on topics ranging from empirical studies testing psychoanalytic concepts to those on the philosophy of mind and action. Her most recent works are three interdisciplinary books: Philosophy, Psychoanalysis, and the A-Rational Mind (Oxford), Unconscious Knowing and Other Essays in Psycho-Philosophical Analysis (Oxford), and The Ontology of Psychology: Questioning Foundations in the Philosophy of Mind (Routledge). She can be contacted at: .

Anna Ursula Dreher is a psychoanalyst and supervisor in private practice in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, and a member of the research committee of the International Psychoanalytic Association (subcommittee: clinical research). She is the author of Foundations for Conceptual Research in Psychoanalysis (Karnac) and co-editor of several volumes including Pluralism and Unity? Methods of Research in Psychoanalysis (IPA). She can be contacted at: .

Edward Erwin is professor of philosophy at the University of Miami. He is the editor of The Freud Encyclopedia: Theories, Therapy, and Culture (Routledge), co-editor of Ethical Issues in Scientific Research (Taylor & Francis) with Sidney Gendin and Lowell Kleiman, and the author of The Rejection of Natural Science Approaches to Psychotherapy (VDM Publishing), Behavior Therapy: Scientific, Philosophical and Moral Foundations (Cambridge University Press), Philosophy and Psychotherapy: Razing the Troubles of the Brain (Sage), and A Final Accounting: Philosophical and Empirical Issues in Freudian Psychology (M.I.T. Press). He can be contacted at: .

Adolf Grnbaum is Andrew Mellon professor of philosophy of science, research professor of psychiatry, and primary research professor in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Pittsburgh. He is the author of many books and papers on the philosophy of science and psychoanalysis including The Foundations of Psychoanalysis: A Philosophical Critique (University of California Press) and Validation in the Clinical Theory of Psychoanalysis: A Study in the Philosophy of Psychoanalysis (International Universities Press). He can be contacted at: .

Agnes Petocz is a senior lecturer in the School of Social Sciences and Psychology at the University of Western Sydney, where she teaches courses in the history and philosophy of psychology and critical thinking. She is the author of Freud, Psychoanalysis and Symbolism (Cambridge University Press), has published on various topics in the philosophy of psychology, and is co-editor with Nigel Mackay of Realism and Psychology: Collected Essays (Brill). She can be contacted at: .

Vesa Talvitie is a doctor of psychology, licensed psychotherapist, organisational consultant (FINOD), and currently works as an occupational .

Thomas Wallgren is a senior lecturer and docent of philosophy at the University of Helsinki. He is the author of Transformative Philosophy: Socrates, Wittgenstein, and the Democratic Spirit of Philosophy (Lexington), and the director of the research project A science of the soul? Wittgenstein, Freud and Neuroscience in dialogue (Academy of Finland 20102013). He is also the director of The von Wright and Wittgenstein Archives at the University of Helsinki. He can be contacted at: .