Philosophy Program RSSS, ANU

My doctoral dissertation is on the philosophy of psychiatry and, more in particular, on conceptual and empirical issues in the classification of psychiatric (or mental) disorder. 

Some stuff about me.  I began studying philosophy at the University of Waikato, New Zealand.  During the summer of 2003/4 I obtained a summer research scholarship to the RSSS, and worked on the ARC funded project 'Perception, interpretation, and the explanation of delusional beliefs' with Martin Davies.   I then returned to New Zealand and completed a Masters Dissertation on 'Cognitive Neuropsychology and the Psychological Explanation of Delusional Belief' before commencing my PhD in the RSSS in March 2006.  I'm a member of the interdisciplinary research group Tempo & Mode Centre for Macroevolution and Macroecology, which is based here at the ANU.  I'm currently visiting the philosophy program at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill for the 2008/9 academic year and can be contacted by email at both places. 

My supervisor is  Kim Sterelny.   

My panel also includes Daniel Stoljar, David Chalmers, Philip Gerrans, and Dominic Murphy.       

Some Seminar Presentations 

Roe, K. (2008).  `What can Neuroimaging tell us About the Mind?'.  Tempo & Mode, Center for Macroevolution and Macroecology, Australian National University. 

Roe, K. (2007).  `The Dysfunction Criterion in Medicine and Psychiatry'. Philosophy Society, Australian National University. 

Roe, K.  (2007).  `Malfunction and Harm:  Why the Distinction Doesn’t Work to Ground Psychiatry'.  Australian Association for Philosophy (New Zealand Division), University of Auckland.  Philosophy of Biology Graduate Student Workshop, Australian National University.

Roe. K.  (2007).  `Grounding Psychiatry:  The Bio-Medical Notion of Dysfunction'.  Tempo and Mode Centre for MacroEvolution and MacroEcology, Australian National University. 

Roe, K.  (2007).  `Defining Mental Disorder'.  Australian Association of Philosophy (Australian Division) University of New England.

Roe, K.  (2006).  `Towards a Scientific Nosology of Psychiatric Disorder'.  Philosophy Society, Australian National University. 

Roe, K.  (2006).  `The Nature of Mental Disorder'.  Australian Association of Philosophy (New Zealand Division) Victoria University of Wellington.  Philosophy of Biology Post-Graduate Student Workshop, Australian National University. 

Roe, K. (2006).  `Some Thoughts on Pain'.  Consciousness at the Beach Workshop, Australian National University. 

Roe, K.  (2005/6).  `Dead Certainty in the Cotard Delusion'.  Australasian Association of Philosophy (Australian Division) Australian National University.   Australasian Association of Philosophy Graduate Student (Australian Division) University of Melbourne.

Roe, K. (2005).  `The Problem of the Unwanted Prediction:  Anomalous Experience Reconsidered'.  Australasian Association of Philosophy (New Zealand Division) University of Waikato.

Roe, K.  (2004).  `The Explanation of Delusion:  Experience, Rationality, and Content'.  Philosophy Society, Australian National University.

Roe, K.  (2004).  `A Realist Aspect to the Interpretation of Selves'.  Australasian Association of Philosophy Graduate Student (New Zealand Division) University of Auckland.  Australasian Association of Philosophy Graduate Student (Australian Division) University of Tasmania.  

Some Teaching 

2008 (fall)

Introduction to Mathematical Logic, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill 

2005 

Introduction to Philosophy, University of Waikato

Critical Reasoning, University of Waikato       

2004

Knowledge and Reality, University of Waikato

Minds and Machines, University of Waikato

Environmental Ethics (grading only), University of Waikato          

2003

Introduction to Philosophy, University of Waikato