Hanna Pickard, DPhil

Hanna Pickard is Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of Philosophy and Bioethics and Krieger-Eisenhower Professor, cross-appointed to the William H. Miller III Department of Philosophy and the Berman Institute of Bioethics and with a secondary appointment in the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences. Prior to joining Hopkins, she held a Chair in Philosophy of Psychology at the University of Birmingham U.K. and was a visiting research scholar to Princeton University’s Program in Cognitive Science (2017-2019). She was also a fellow of All Souls College at the University of Oxford (1997-2017) and a Wellcome Trust Biomedical Ethics Clinical Research Fellow (2010-2015).

She works on topics across philosophy of mind, philosophy of psychiatry, moral psychology, practical ethics, and criminal and mental health law and policy. As well as being an analytic philosopher, Dr. Pickard spent a decade as an assistant team therapist at the Oxford Complex Needs Service, a U.K. National Health Service (NHS) specialist service people with personality disorders and complex needs.

Her book What Would You Do Alone in a Cage with Nothing but Cocaine? The Puzzle of Addiction will be published by Princeton University Press in 2026.