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Critical Research Issues In Latino Mental Health
Treatment of Latinos with Mental Disorders:
Conceptual and Empirical Approaches

Santa Fe, New Mexico
March 10 - 12, 2008

KEYNOTE ADDRESS

Dominic Murphy, Ph.D.
California Institute of Technology
Integrating Culture, Cognition and Biology

Dominic Murphy, PhD has a doctoral degree in Philosophy from Rutgers University and is currently an assistant professor in the division of Humanities and Social Sciences in the California Institute of Technology. Before that, Dr. Murphy was a post doctoral fellow in the Philosophy, Neuroscience and Psychology Program at Washington University, St. Louis. In July 2008 he will move to the University of Sydney, to become Senior Lecturer in History and Philosophy of Science.

Murphy’s research looks at conceptual issues in the biological and cognitive sciences, especially those concerned with human nature. He is interested in the forms of explanation that these theories employ, as well as the implications of these theories for our commonsense views about human nature.

Dr. Murphy is the author of Psychiatry in the Scientific Image (MIT Press), which discusses psychiatric classification and explanation from the point of view of philosophy of science. He has also published several papers on psychiatry, evolutionary psychology, moral psychology and the foundations of cognitive science. He is currently a short introductory book on the philosophy of medicine, and a monograph on theories of selfrepresentation in philosophy and cognitive science.