Hanna Pickard

Hanna Pickard is a Canadian philosopher born on August 18, 1972, in Kingston, Ontario. She holds a BA from Queen's University and a BPhil and DPhil from the University of Oxford. Pickard's academic career includes positions at the University of Birmingham and Princeton University before joining Johns Hopkins University in 2019 as a Bloomberg Distinguished Professor. Her research interests lie in the philosophy of mind, philosophy of psychiatry, moral psychology, and medical ethics. Inspired by her clinical experience, her work addresses topics such as addiction, delusions, agency, emotions, self-harm, and the nature of mental disorders. She has developed a value-based framework for understanding addiction and the ethical framework "Responsibility without Blame," which separates agency and responsibility from condemnation and blame. Pickard has also collaborated on applying this framework to criminal justice theory and practice. She is married to philosopher Ian Phillips.