Walter Bossert is Professor of Economics and CIREQ research fellow at the University of Montreal. His research interests include decision theory, rational choice, social choice, and welfare economics. He is a co-author with Charles Blackorby and David Donaldson of Population Issues in Social Choice Theory, Welfare Economics, and Ethics (Cambridge University Press, 2005) and a co-author with Kotaro Suzumura of Consistency, Choice, and Rationality (Harvard University Press, 2010). He is the recipient of the 2004 John Rae Prize awarded by the Canadian Economics Association.

Roberto Fumagalli is Junior Professor at the Institute of Philosophy at the University of Bayreuth. He completed his PhD in Philosophy at the London School of Economics in 2011 with a thesis focused on the philosophical foundations of Neuroeconomics. His main research interests are in philosophy of economics, philosophy of the social sciences and philosophy of science more generally.

Alexander Kaufman is author of Welfare in the Kantian State (Oxford University Press, 1999) and editor of Capabilities Equality: Issues and Problems (Routledge 2006), and has published articles on distributive justice, theories of equality, social contract theory, German Idealism, and philosophy of law. His recent publications include ‘Capabilities and Freedom’ (Journal of Political Philosophy: September 2006); ‘Stability, Fit, and Consensus’ (Journal of Politics: April 2009); ‘Rawls and Kantian Constructivism’ (Kantian Review: July 2012); and ‘Political Liberalism, Constructivism, and Global Justice’ (Journal of Moral Philosophy: forthcoming).

Ryan Muldoon is a Post-doctoral Fellow in the Philosophy, Politics and Economics programme at the University of Pennsylvania. Previously he was a Post-doctoral Fellow at the Rotman Institute of Philosophy at the University of Western Ontario. His work focuses on how diversity affects social contracts, social norms and social epistemology.

Adrian Pabst is Senior Lecturer in Politics at the University of Kent. His research is at the interface of political theory, political economy and religion. He is the author of Metaphysics: The Creation of Hierarchy (William B Eerdmans Publishing, 2012) and the editor of The Crisis of Global Capitalism (James Clarke and Co., 2011). Currently he is writing (together with John Milbank) The Politics of Virtue.

Chloe X. Qi is an Associate with the Boston Consulting Group at its Boston office. She graduated from Vanderbilt University in 2012 with a B.A. (Hons.) in Economics. She has previously published in Biology and Philosophy.

Jan-Willem van der Rijt is Lecturer of Political Philosophy at the University of Bayreuth. His current research interests include the topics of dignity, freedom, happiness and well-being. Articles by Jan-Willem van der Rijt have appeared in journals such as Law and Philosophy, Ethical Theory and Moral Practice and Theory and Decision. He has published The Importance of Assent: A Theory of Dignity and Coercion with Springer (2012).

Eric Schwitzgebel is Professor of Philosophy at University of California at Riverside. His books include Describing Inner Experience? Proponent Meets Skeptic (with Russell T. Hurlburt, MIT Press, 2007) and Perplexities of Consciousness (MIT Press, 2011). He works at the intersection of philosophy of mind and empirical psychology, especially on self-knowledge, consciousness, the nature of attitudes, and the relationship between reflection and behaviour.

Alex Voorhoeve is Reader in Philosophy at the London School of Economics. He works on distributive ethics and the theory of rational choice. He is also the author of Conversations on Ethics (Oxford University Press, 2009), a collection of interviews with moral philosophers and social scientists.

John A. Weymark is the Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Professor of Economics at Vanderbilt University. His research interests include inequality measurement, optimal taxation, social choice and welfare economics. He is a co-editor with Marc Fleurbaey and Maurice Salles of Justice, Political Liberalism, and Utilitarianism: Themes from Harsanyi and Rawls (Cambridge University Press, 2008) and Social Ethics and Normative Economics: Essays in Honour of Serge-Christophe Kolm (Springer, 2011). He is an Editor of Economics and Philosophy and a former Managing Editor of Social Choice and Welfare.