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Daniel R. Boisvert is Lecturer of Philosophy at the University of North Carolina
Charlotte. His main areas of research are ethics and philosophy of language,
especially their intersections and their relations to broader issues in philosophy
of mind and logic. His authored or coauthored articles have appeared in outlets
such as Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, The Philosophical Quarterly, and The Oxford
Handbook of Philosophy of Language.
John Brunero is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of
Missouri–St. Louis, where he teaches moral, political, and legal philosophy. His
research is primarily focused on questions concerning normative reasons and
the requirements of practical rationality. His work has appeared in such journals as Philosophical Quarterly, Philosophical Studies, Pacific Philosophical Quarterly,
Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy, and Ethics.
Matthew Chrisman is Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Edinburgh.
His main areas of research are ethical theory, the philosophy of language, and
epistemology. He is also interested in semantics of modals, action theory, political philosophy, deontic logic, the ethics of climate change, and Kant. His work
has appeared in such journals as The Journal of Philosophy, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Oxford Studies in Metaethics, Philosophers’ Imprint, and
Philosophical Studies.
Terence Cuneo is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of
Vermont. His primary areas of research include metaethics and the history of
modern philosophy. His books include The Normative Web: An Argument for
Moral Realism (Oxford, 2007), Foundations of Ethics (edited with R. Shafer-Landau,
Blackwell, 2007) and The Cambridge Companion to Thomas Reid (edited with
R. van Woudenberg, Cambridge, 2004).
Michael DePaul is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Notre Dame,
and his main areas of research are ethics and epistemology. He is the author of
Balance and Refinement: Beyond Coherence Methods of Moral Inquiry (Routledge)
and editor (with William Ramsey) of Rethinking Intuition (Rowman and Littlefield), Resurrecting Old-Fashioned Foundationalism (Rowman and Littlefield), and
(with Linda Zagzebski) Intellectual Virtue (Oxford).
Kyla Ebels-Duggan is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Northwestern University. She works on moral and political philosophy and their history, especially
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the work of Immanuel Kant. She has published articles in Philosophers’ Imprint,
Ethics, and The Philosophical Quarterly and in 2009–2010 held the Laurance S.
Rockefeller Visiting Fellowship at the Princeton University Center for Human
Values.
William J. FitzPatrick is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of
Rochester. His research focuses on topics in metaethics, normative ethical theory, and applied ethics, and he has published articles in Ethics, Mind, Analysis,
Philosophical Studies, Oxford Studies in Metaethics, and other journals. Among his
current projects are the development of a robust, nonnaturalist ethical realism;
a defense of the doctrine of double effect; and an exploration of questions at the
intersection of ethical theory and the sciences.
Joshua Gert is Professor of Philosophy at the College of William and Mary. His
primary research interests are metaethics, practical rationality and reasons for
action, and philosophy of color, all with an emphasis on the relevance of philosophy of language. His publications include Brute Rationality: Normativity and
Human Action (Cambridge 2004), “Normative Strength and the Balance of Reasons,” Philosophical Review 2007 and “What Colors Could not Be: An Argument
for Color Primitivism,” The Journal of Philosophy 2008.
Hallvard Lillehammer teaches moral and political philosophy at Cambridge
University where he is a University Senior Lecturer, the Sidgwick Lecturer, and
Senior Research Fellow at Churchill College. He is the author of Companions in
Guilt: Arguments for Ethical Objectivity (2007), and coeditor of Ramsey’s Legacy
(2005) and Real Metaphysics (2003).
Sean McKeever is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Davidson College. His
research interests are in contemporary moral theory and metaethics. He is the
author (with Michael Ridge) of Principled Ethics: Generalism as a Regulative Ideal
(Oxford, 2006).
Alfred R. Mele is the William H. and Lucyle T. Werkmeister Professor of Philosophy at Florida State University and director of the Big Questions in Free Will
Project (2010–13). He is the author of Irrationality (1987), Springs of Action (1992),
Autonomous Agents (1995), Self-Deception Unmasked (2001), Motivation and Agency
(2003), Free Will and Luck (2006), and Effective Intentions: The Power of Conscious
Will (2009). He also is the editor or coeditor of The Philosophy of Action (1997),
Mental Causation (1993), The Oxford Handbook of Rationality (2004), Rationality and
the Good (2007), and Free Will and Consciousness: How Might They Work? (2010).
Christian Miller is Associate Professor of Philosophy and Zachary T. Smith
Faculty Fellow at Wake Forest University. His main areas of research are
metaethics, moral psychology, moral character, action theory, and philosophy
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of religion. His work has appeared in such journals as Noûs, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Philosophical Studies, Philosophical Psychology, The Journal
of Ethics, Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy, and Oxford Studies in Philosophy of
Religion, and he is currently writing a book tentatively entitled Moral Character:
Philosophy and Psychology. He is the director of The Character Project, which is
funded by a 3.67 million dollar grant for the study of character from the John
Templeton Foundation.
Thomas Nadelhoffer is Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Law and Policy
at Dickinson College. His main areas of research include moral psychology, the
philosophy of action, free will, and neurolaw, and his articles have appeared in
journals such as Analysis, Midwest Studies in Philosophy, Mind & Language, Neuroethics, and Philosophy and Phenomenological Research. He also edited Moral Psychology: Historical and Contemporary Readings with Eddy Nahmias and Shaun
Nichols (Blackwell), and he is presently editing “The Future of Punishment”
(Oxford).
Douglas W. Portmore is an Associate Professor of Philosophy in the School of
Historical, Philosophical, and Religious Studies at Arizona State University. His
research focuses mainly on morality, rationality, and the interconnections
between the two, but he also writes on wellbeing, posthumous harm, and the
nonidentity problem. He is the author of Commonsense Consequentialism: Wherein
Morality Meets Rationality, which is forthcoming with Oxford University Press.
In addition, he has published several articles in various journals, including
Noûs, Mind, Ethics, Utilitas, Philosophical Studies, and Oxford Studies in Normative
Ethics.
J. B. Schneewind is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Johns Hopkins University and a Visiting Scholar in Philosophy at NYU. Author of two books and
numerous articles on the history of moral philosophy, he has recently published
a collection of his essays entitled Essays on the History of Moral Philosophy
(Oxford).
Russ Shafer-Landau is Professor of Philosophy at the University of WisconsinMadison. He works primarily in metaethics, and is the author of Moral Realism:
A Defence (Oxford), Whatever Happened to Good and Evil? (Oxford) and The Fundamentals of Ethics (Oxford). He is the editor of Oxford Studies in Metaethics.
Walter Sinnott-Armstrong is Chauncey Stillman Professor of Practical Ethics in
the Philosophy Department and the Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University. He has served as vice-chair of the Board of Officers of the American Philosophical Association and co-director of the MacArthur Project on Law and
Neuroscience. He publishes widely in normative moral theory, metaethics, applied ethics, moral psychology and neuroscience, philosophy of law,
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epistemology, informal logic, and philosophy of religion. His most recent books
include Moral Skepticisms, Morality Without God?, and, as editor, Moral Psychology (3 Volumes) and Conscious Will and Responsibility (with Lynn Nadel).
Anita Superson is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Kentucky. She
specializes in ethics, particularly metaethics and moral psychology, and in feminism. She is the author of The Moral Skeptic (Oxford University Press, 2009),
and the coeditor (with Ann Cudd) of Theorizing Backlash: Philosophical Reflections
on the Backlash against Feminism (Rowman and Littlefield, 2002). She authored
an entry on “Feminist Moral Psychology” in the Stanford Encyclopedia of
Philosophy.
Christine Swanton teaches in the Philosophy Department at the University of
Auckland in New Zealand. She is currently working on the virtue ethics of
Hume and Nietzsche. Her book on virtue ethics, Virtue Ethics: A Pluralistic View,
was published with Oxford University Press in 2003.
Pekka Väyrynen is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at University of Leeds. He
works primarily in metaethics and maintains strong interests in metaphysics,
epistemology, and philosophy of language. His work has appeared in many
journals and volumes including Ethics, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research,
Oxford Studies in Metaethics, and Philosophical Quarterly. His current work on a
monograph on the distinction between thick and thin ethical concepts and its
significance (tentatively entitled The Lewd, the Rude, and the Nasty: A Study of
Thick Concepts) is supported by grants from UK Arts and Humanities Research
Council and the European Community.
William J. Wainwright is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy Emeritus at
the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Major recent publications include Reason and the Heart (1995), Philosophy of Religion, 2nd ed. (1998), Religion and Morality (2005), and the edited volume The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Religion
(2005).
Eric Wiland is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of MissouriSt. Louis. He is the author of Reasons (Continuum, forthcoming), and a wide
variety of papers on ethics and practical reason. He also organizes SLACRR, the
St. Louis Conference on Reasons and Rationality.
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