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Federico Burdman

Assistant Professor - Alberto Hurtado University
Argentina

01.02.2024-27.02.2024

Addiction and autonomy: a philosophical perspective on informed consent and the status of addiction as a disease.

The outputs of this project will be two academic research articles which I expect to submit to first-rate international journals specialized in the relevant topics by the end of my residency.

Objectives:
- To enrich and further develop my ideas on my research questions through discussion with leading experts. I will greatly benefit from discussion with researchers working at the Brocher Foundation, especially given the interdisciplinary and collaborative spirit of the research being undertaken there. I also intend to reach out to relevant experts at Geneva-based universities and research hubs and discuss this research with them.
- To reach out and discuss my research with experts at several Geneva-based institutions. These include most notably the WHO, but also comprises many other international and non-governmental actors with a stake on addiction-focused policy-making, including the Global Commission on Drug Policy, the Global Health Center, the Institute of Global Health, among many others. A key objective of my residency at the Brocher Foundation will be to build bridges and collaborations with experts at such institutions, and to discuss my research agenda with them.
Expected outcomes:
- To influence scholarly debates concerning addiction, both within and beyond philosophy as a discipline.
- To make an impact on the views on my research questions that are typically assumed by policy-makers. I fully believe that a philosophically-informed perspective has much to contribute to debates surrounding addiction-focused policy-making agendas at the institutional level.
- To put me in a position to translate my research and my development of international collaborations into a valuable asset meant to have an impact on dominant opinion concerning addiction in my home country. A key aim behind my attempt to establish myself as an international expert on addiction is to be able to positively influence opinion and policy-making back home through a philosophically-informed and ethically-focused perspective.

I am Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the Faculty of Philosophy and Humanities of the Universidad Alberto Hurtado in Santiago, Chile. My areas of specialization are the Philosophy of Mind, the Philosophy of Action and the Philosophy of Psychiatry. My current research focuses on addiction and other forms of agency under non-ideal conditions, as they relate to motivation, self-control, emotions and sensitivity to reasons, including implications for autonomy, ascriptions of moral responsibility and other ethically relevant issues.

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