I think my job is philosophy related. I got paid to sit and listen to all these guys this weekend. I think I have the best job that a pothead could want.
Marc Potenza, Yale University, ‘Defining the boundaries of addiction:
a biological perspective’
A. David Redish, University of Minnesota, ‘Addiction as vulnerabilities
in the brain’s decision-making systems’
Warren Bickel, University of Arkansas, ‘Executive system dysfunction:
the silent other half of addictive processes’
Christian Miller, Wake Forest University, ‘Agency, identification and
addiction’
Timothy Schroeder, Ohio State University, ‘Addiction, expectation
and habit’
Annette Mendola, University of Tennessee, ‘Authenticity and
addiction’
James MacKillop, Brown University, ‘Genetic influences on addiction:
empirical evidence, functional mechanisms and clinical implications’
Nancy Petry, University of Connecticut, ‘Addiction and impulsivity’
JohnMonterosso, University of California at Los Angeles, ‘Distinguishing
the Factors of Impulsivity and Self-Control in Vulnerability to Addiction’
George Ainslie, Coatesville Veterans Affairs Medical Center, ‘Recursive
appetite formation in conditioning and hyperbolic discounting models
of addiction’
Craig Hanson, Palm Beach Atlantic University, ‘Hyperbolic discounting
and the deflation of irrationalities’
David Spurrett & Ben Murrell, University of KwaZulu-Natal, ‘Measuring
dispositions to bundle choices’
Don Ross, University of Alabama at Birmingham and University of
Cape Town, ‘Economic models of impulsivity’
Neil Manson, University of Mississippi, ‘Expected value and the
rationality of gambling’
Howard Rachlin, SUNY Stony Brook, ‘Similarities and differences
between self-control and altruism’
Louis Charland, University ofWestern Ontario, ‘Decisional capacity
and addiction: the example of heroin prescription’
Douglas Husak, Rutgers University, ‘The moral relevance of addiction’
Peter Collins, Salford University, ‘Addiction and the public interest
in liberal democracies’
It was however quite difficult to argue with them being that I was completely stoned the entire time.