Academic Qualifications & Publications

Further academic information can be found here.

Position

• Professor,  History & Philosophy of Science, University of Melbourne

Qualifications

• PhD (2001) Psychology (Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience), University College London
• MPhil (1996) Criminology, Cambridge University
• BA Hons (1995) Experimental Psychology, Oxford University (First class)

Publications

Books and book chapters

• Fine C (2017). "Testosterone-Rex." (New York: WW Norton).
• Donovan C, Fine C & Kennett J (forthcoming). "Reliable and unreliable judgments about reasons." In D Star (Ed), The Oxford Handbook of Reasons and Normativity. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• Fine C & Fidler F (2014). "Sex and power: Why sex/gender neuroscience should motivate statistical reform. In J Clausen & N Levy (Eds), The Handbook of Neuroethics. Dordrecht: Springer Science & Business Media.
• Fine C (2014). "Neuroscience, gender, and 'development to' and 'from': The example of toy preferences. In J Clausen & N Levy (Eds), The Handbook of Neuroethics. Dordrecht: Springer Science & Business Media.
• Fine C (2013). "Neurosexism in functional neuroimaging: From scanner to pseudo-science to psyche." In M Ryan & N Branscombe (Eds), The Sage Handbook of Gender and Psychology. Thousand Oaks: Sage.
• Grossi G & Fine C (2012). "The role of fetal testosterone in the development of 'the essential difference' between the sexes: Some essential issues." In R Bluhm, A Jacobsen and H Maibom (Eds), Neurofeminism: Issues at the Intersection of Feminist Theory and Cognitive Neuroscience. Basingstoke: Palgrave-Macmillan.
• Fine C (2012). "Messages, minds and mental contamination: What does cognitive science tell us? To appear in W Warburton & D Braunstein (Eds), Growing up Fast and Furious. Federation Press.
• Fine C (2010). "Delusions of Gender: How our minds, society and neurosexism create difference." (New York: WW Norton).
• Kennett J & Fine C (2007). "Internalism and the evidence from psychopaths and 'acquired sociopathy'." In Vol 3, The Neuroscience of Morality: Emotion, Disease and Development. Ed. W. Sinnott-Armstrong. (Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press).
• Kennett J & Fine C (2007). "Could there be an empirical test for internalism?" In Vol 3, The Neuroscience of Morality: Emotion, Disease and Development. Ed. W. Sinnott-Armstrong. (Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press). Response to commentaries.
• Fine C (2006). "A Mind of Its Own: How your brain distorts and deceives." (New York: WW Norton)

Journal Publications

• Rippon G, Jordan-Young R, Kaiser A, Joel D & Fine, C (2017). Journal of Neuroscience Research  policy on addressing sex as a biological variable: Comments, clarifications, and elaborations. Journal of Neuroscience Research, 10.1002/jnr.24045
• Fine C & Rush E. (2016). "Why does all the girls have to buy pink stuff?" The ethics and science of the gendered toy marketing debate Journal of Business Ethics
• Fine C & Duke R. (2015). Expanding the role of gender essentialism in the single-sex education debate: A commentary on Liben Sex Roles 72(9-10):427-433.
• Fine C (2014). His brain, her brain? Science 346: 915-6 (Full text available here.)
• Rippon G, Jordan-Young R, Kaiser A & Fine C (2014). Recommendations for sex/gender neuroimaging research: Key principles and implications for research design, analysis and interpretation. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience. 
• Fine C, Jordan-Young R, Kaiser A & Rippon G (2013). Plasticity, plasticity, plasticity ... and the rigid problem of sex. Trends in Cognitive Sciences 17: 550-551.
• Fine C (2013). Is there neurosexism in functional neuroimaging investigations of sex differences? Neuroethics 6(2): 369-409.
• Fine C (2012). Explaining, or sustaining, the status quo? The potentially self-fulfilling effects of 'hardwired' accounts of sex differences. Neuroethics 5(3): 285-294.
• Fine C (2010). From scanner to soundbite: Issues in interpreting and reporting sex differences in the brain. Current Directions in Psychological Science 19: 280-283 .
• Kennett J & Fine C  (2009). Will the real moral judgment please stand up? Ethical Theory & Moral Practice 12: 77-96.
• Nairn A & Fine C (2008). Not seeing the wood for the imaginary trees. Or, who's messing with my article? A response to Ambler. International Journal of Advertising 27(5): 896-908.
• Nairn A & Fine C (2008) Who's messing with my mind? The implications of dual processing models for the ethics of marketing to children. International Journal of Marketing 27(3): 447-470.
• Fine C (2008). Will working mothers' brains explode? The popular new genre of neurosexism. Neuroethics 1 (1): 69-72.
• Fine C, Gardner M, Craigie J & Gold I (2007). Hopping, skipping or jumping to conclusions? Clarifying the role of the JTC bias in delusions. Cognitive Neuropsychiatry 12(1): 46-77.
• Fine C (2007). Vulnerable minds? The consumer unconscious and the ethics of marketing to children. Res Publica 16 (1): 14-18.
• Fine C. (2006). Is the emotional dog wagging the rational tail or chasing it? Unleashing reason in Haidt's social intuitionist model of moral judgment. Philosophical Explorations 9(1): 83-98.
• Mitchell DGV, Fine C, Richell RA, Newman C, Lumsden J, Blair KS, Blair RJR (2006). Instrumental learning and relearning in individuals with psychopathy and in patients with lesions involving the amygdala or orbitofrontal cortex. Neuropsychology 20(3): 280-289.
• Fine C, Craigie J & Gold I. (2005). Damned if you do; damned if you don't: the impasse in cognitive models of the Capgras delusion. Philosophy, Psychiatry & Psychology 12(2):143-151.
• Fine C, Craigie J & Gold I. (2005). The explanation approach to delusion. Philosophy, Psychiatry & Psychology 12(2): 159-163. Response to commentary.
• Fine C & Kennett J. (2004). Mental impairment, moral understanding and criminal responsibility: Psychopathy and the purposes of punishment. International Journal of Law and Psychiatry, 27: 425-443.
• Fine C, Lumsden J & Blair RJR. (2001). Dissociation between theory of mind and executive functions in a patient with early left amygdala damage. Brain, 124: 287-298.
• Fine C & Blair RJR. (2000). The cognitive and emotional effects of amygdala damage. Neurocase, 6: 435-438.
• Fine C & Blair RJR. (1999). Computations in extraversion. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 22(3): 521-523.

​Book review and encyclopedia entry

• Fine I, Fine C & Fine K. (2009). 'Blindness, recovery from.' Companion to Consciousness Encyclopedia. Oxford University Press.
• Fine C (2005). Review of JT Cacioppo & GG Bernston (2004), Essays in Social Neuroscience. Psyche 11(2).

Selected Keynotes/Plenary Lectures

• Keynote Address, HDR Summer School, Deakin University, Feb 2016​
• Keynote, Australasian Association of Philosophy Conference, July 2015
• Keynote, Royal College of Australian & New Zealand Psychiatrists Congress, May 2015
• Women in Science Lecture, European Molecular Biology Organization, Sept 2013
• Endocrinology Society of Australia Conference, April 2013
• Author Meets Critics, American Philosophical Association-Central, February 2013