David Schmidtz is Editor in Chief of Social Philosophy and Policy.
John Hasnas is Professor of Business at Georgetown’s McDonough School of Business, and Professor of Law (by courtesy) at Georgetown University Law Center where he teaches courses on ethics and law. He is also Executive Director of the Georgetown Institute for the Study of Markets and Ethics, whose mission is to explore the ethics of market activity. In addition to a number of published book chapters, he is the author of articles published in journals including Journal of Business Ethics, Social Theory and Practice, Business Ethics Quarterly, and Criminal Law and Philosophy. His current research concerns ethics, criminal jurisprudence, and legal philosophy. He has recently published several articles exploring the implications of ascribing moral responsibility to corporations.
Richard W. Miller is Wyn and William Y. Hutchinson Professor of Ethics and Public Life in the Department of Philosophy at Cornell University. His many writings in political philosophy and ethics include Globalizing Justice: The Ethics of Poverty and Power (2010), Analyzing Marx: Morality, Power and History (1984), and Moral Differences: Truth, Justice and Conscience in a World of Conflict (1992). His current project is a book on the moral foundations of social democracy.
Samuel Fleischacker is LAS Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the University of Illinois in Chicago. He works on moral and political philosophy, and the philosophy of religion. He is the author of eight books, including A Third Concept of Liberty: Judgment and Freedom in Kant and Adam Smith (1999), On Adam Smith’s Wealth of Nations: A Philosophical Companion (2004), which was awarded the 2009 Joseph B. Gittler Award by the American Philosophical Association, and What is Enlightenment? (2013). He has also been President of the International Adam Smith Society.
Mark Philp is Professor of History and Politics at the University of Warwick, and an Emeritus Fellow of Oriel College. He has worked extensively in the field of political corruption and realist political theory as well as in the history of political thought, and late eighteenth and early nineteenth century European history. Recent publications include Political Conduct (2007), Reforming Political Ideas in Britain: Politics and Language in the Shadow of the French Revolution (2013); and an edited book, with Joanna Innes, Re-imagining Democracy in the Age of Revolutions: America, France, Britain, Ireland 1750-1850 (2013).
Mark Knights is Professor of History at the University of Warwick. He has published several works about the political culture of early modern Britain, including Representation and Misrepresentation in Later Stuart Britain: Partisanship and Political Culture (2006); The Devil in Disguise: Deception, Delusion and Fanaticism in the Early English Enlightenment (2011); and The Power of Laughter and Satire in Early Modern Britain. Political and Religious Culture 1500-1820 (co-edited with Adam Morton; 2017). He is currently writing a book for Oxford University Press about corruption and anti-corruption in pre-modern Britain.
Emanuela Ceva is Associate Professor of Political Philosophy in the Department of Political and Social Sciences at the University of Pavia (Italy). In 2018, she was a Fulbright Visiting Scholar at the Edmund J. Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard University. She is the author of the book Interactive Justice (2016) and of many articles that have appeared in such journals as the Journal of Social Philosophy, Social Theory and Practice, Journal of Applied Philosophy, Politics, Philosophy & Economics, and European Journal of Philosophy. Her research focuses on issues of value conflict and procedural justice, democracy, corruption, and on the implications of the liberal principle of respect for the treatment of minorities.
Elijah Millgram is E. E. Ericksen Professor of Philosophy at the University of Utah. He is the author of the books Hard Truths (2009), Ethics Done Right (2005), and most recently, The Great Endarkenment (2015). His research interests center on theory of rationality, as well as on the intellectual and practical challenges posed by specialization. He is currently working on a book on John Stuart Mill and the meaning of life.
Michael C. Munger is Professor of Political Science, with additional appointments in the Economics and Public Policy Departments at Duke University. He also serves as Director of Duke’s PPE Program. Munger has published articles in American Political Science Review, Journal of Law and Economics, and a variety of other journals. He has coauthored a number of books, and is the author, most recently, of Tomorrow 3.0: Transaction Costs and the Sharing Economy (2018).
F. H. Buckley is Foundation Professor at George Mason University’s Scalia School of Law. His most recent books are The Republic of Virtue: How We Tried to Ban Corruption, Failed, and What We Can Do About It (2017); The Way Back: Restoring the Promise of America (2016); The Once and Future King (2015); The American Illness (edited, 2013); Fair Governance (2009); Just Exchange (2005); The Morality of Laughter (2003); and The Fall and Rise of Freedom of Contract (edited, 1999). He is a frequent media guest and has appeared on Morning Joe, CNN, Rush Limbaugh, C-SPAN’s Washington Journal, China’s CGTN, Newsmax, Radio France, the CBC, NPR, and many others. He is also a Senior Editor at The American Spectator, a columnist for the New York Post, and has written for the Wall Street Journal, USA Today, US News, National Review, the American Conservative, the New Criterion, Real Clear Politics, the National Post, and the Telegraph, among others.
Adrian Blau is Senior Lecturer in Politics in the Department of Political Economy at King’s College London. He works on the methodology of political theory, on which he has published in The Journal of Politics and in History of European Ideas, as well as editing the first ever textbook on political theory methodology, Methods in Analytical Political Theory (2017). He also works on the philosophy of Thomas Hobbes, on which he has published in the journal History of Political Thought and in The Oxford Handbook of Hobbes. He has also published on deliberative democracy in Contemporary Political Theory and on empirical aspects of democracy in Electoral Studies and Party Politics.
Daniel M. Weinstock is James McGill Professor in the Faculty of Law at McGill University. He has published widely on a range of topics in practical philosophy. Most recently, he has published a series of papers on the political philosophy of compromise, and on the normative issues that arise in the liberal democratic state’s organization of a range of practices that are central to the lives of children and families: parental prerogative, education, adoption, assisted reproduction technologies, and the like. He is at present working on a project on the political philosophy of harm reduction.
Maria Paola Ferretti is Senior Research Fellow in political philosophy at Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main. She is the author of the recently published book The Public Perspective (2018), and the author or coauthor of a number of articles published in journals including Philosophy Compass, Politics, Philosophy, and Economics, and Journal of Applied Philosophy. Her primary research interests are in political philosophy and public ethics, and she is currently working on a project on the ethics of risk, funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG). She is also currently a member of the Executive Committee of the Society for Applied Philosophy and co-convenor of the Political Theory Standing Group of the European Consortium for Political Research.
Mario Villarreal-Diaz is Managing Director and Senior Scholar at the Center for Enterprise and Policy Analytics, McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas at Austin. He previously served as Associate Professor and Associate Director at the Center for the Philosophy of Freedom at the University of Arizona and taught in the Philosophy, Politics, Economics, and Law Program at Arizona. Before joining the Freedom Center, he was the Economics Program Officer at the Institute for Humane Studies at George Mason University. In 2005, he received his Ph.D. in Economics and Political Science from Claremont Graduate University, where he was a Fulbright Fellow.
