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Short bio: 

Brian D. Earp, PhD is an Associate Professor of Biomedical Ethics at the National University of Singapore (NUS) and Associate Professor of Philosophy and of Psychology at NUS by courtesy. Brian directs the Oxford-NUS Centre for Neuroethics and Society at NUS and the University of Oxford, and is Associate Director of the Yale-Hastings Program in Ethics and Health Policy at Yale University and The Hastings Center. In 2022, Brian was elected to the UK Young Academy under the auspices of the British Academy and the Royal Society. Brian’s work is cross-disciplinary, following training in philosophy, cognitive science, experimental psychology, history and sociology of science and medicine, and ethics.

Long bio: 

Brian D. Earp, PhD is an Associate Professor of Biomedical Ethics within the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine at the National University of Singapore (NUS) and an Associate Professor of Philosophy and of Psychology at NUS by courtesy. Also a Research Associate of the Uehiro Oxford Institute of the University of Oxford, Brian directs the Oxford-NUS Centre for Neuroethics and Society and the Hub at Oxford for Psychedelic Ethics (HOPE), and is Associate Director of the Yale-Hastings Program in Ethics and Health Policy at Yale University and The Hastings Center. In 2022, Brian was elected to the UK Young Academy under the auspices of the British Academy and the Royal Society.

Brian’s work is cross-disciplinary, following training in philosophy, cognitive science, experimental psychology, history and sociology of science and medicine, and ethics. A co-recipient of the Daniel M. Wegner Theoretical Innovation Prize from the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Brian was also one of four named finalists for the 2020 John Maddox Prize for “standing up for science” (awarded by Nature). Brian is also recipient of both the Robert G. Crowder Prize in Psychology and the Ledyard Cogswell Award for Citizenship from Yale University, where, as an undergraduate, Brian was elected President of the Yale Philosophy Society and served as Editor-in-Chief of the Yale Philosophy Review. An expert on the "replication crisis" in science and medicine, Brian was invited to advise the Dutch government on research integrity and was an official peer-reviewer on the final report prepared by the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Brian then conducted graduate research in psychological methods as a Henry Fellow of New College at the University of Oxford, followed by a degree in the history, philosophy, and sociology of science, technology, and medicine as a Cambridge Trust Scholar and Rausing Award recipient at Trinity College at the University of Cambridge. After spending a year in residence as the inaugural Presidential Scholar in Bioethics at The Hastings Center in Garrison, New York, Brian was appointed Benjamin Franklin Resident Graduate Fellow while completing a dual Ph.D. in philosophy and psychology at Yale University. Brian’s essays have been translated into Polish, German, Italian, Spanish, French, Portuguese, Japanese, and Hebrew.