Paul Dragos Aligica is Senior Research Fellow at the F. A. Hayek Program for Advanced Study in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University where he teaches in the graduate program of the Economics Department. His areas of expertise include institutional theory, public choice, governance theory, and alternative economic systems. Among his other book publications, Aligica is author of Institutional Diversity and Political Economy: The Ostroms and Beyond (2014) and the forthcoming book Public Entrepreneurship, Civic Competence, and Voluntary Association (2018). His articles appear in journals such as American Political Science Review, Review of Political Economy, Comparative Economic Studies, and Society.
Cristina Bicchieri is S. J. Patterson Harvie Professor of Philosophy and Psychology at the University of Pennsylvania. She is the director of the Behavioral Ethics Lab and the Penn Social Norms Group (PennSoNG). Her most recent book publications include Norms in the Wild: How to Diagnose, Measure and Change Social Norms (2016), and The Grammar of Society (2006), and she has authored or coauthored numerous journal articles and contributions to edited collections. Her work lies at the border between philosophy, game theory, and psychology. The primary focus of her research is judgment and decision making, with special interest in decisions about fairness, trust, and cooperation, and how expectations affect behavior. A second research focus examines the evolution and change of social norms. She does consulting for UNICEF, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the World Bank, and many other international organizations on social norms and behavioral change.
Peter McNally is a psychologist and behavioral decision theorist working in the Penn Social Norms Group (PennSoNG) at the University of Pennsylvania and on a Gates Foundation project on the social determinants of sanitation. His intellectual interests consist of the mechanisms of collective behavioral change, information-seeking behavior, and behavioral decision-making more broadly.
Daniel Kelly is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Purdue University. His research interests are at the intersection of the philosophy of mind, cognitive science, and moral theory. He is the author of Yuck! The Nature and Moral Significance of Disgust (2011), and has published on moral judgment, racial cognition, implicit bias, evolutionary debunking arguments, and cross-cultural diversity in journals such as Utilitas, Philosophical Psychology, and Journal of Social Philosophy.
Taylor Davis is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Purdue University. In his role at Purdue as a member of the Building Sustainable Communities research cluster, he focuses on applying knowledge of the psychology of norms and the evolution of cooperation to questions about human behavior in contexts of environmental sustainability and social justice. His research also focuses on other aspects of moral and religious psychology, both empirical and conceptual. His articles are published in journals such as Review of Philosophy and Psychology, Journal of Cognition and Culture, and Philosophical Psychology.
Gerry Mackie is Associate Professor of Political Science and Co-Director of the Center on Global Justice at the University of California, San Diego. His most recent books (with coauthors) are Advancing Transformative Human Rights Education (2016) and Values Deliberations and Collective Action: Community Empowerment in Rural Senegal (2017). His book, Democracy Defended (2003), won the Kamerer Prize from the American Political Science Association. He works on democratic theory, and also has worked on ending harmful social practices such as the practice of female genital cutting, where his ideas on social norms combined with the NGO Tostan’s practice of human rights education became the common approach adopted by UN and national development agencies in 2007. Since 2004 he has worked on harmful practices more generally with UNICEF, the NGO Corpovisionarios in Colombia, and more recently with UK DFID.
Adam Morris is a PhD candidate in the Department of Psychology at Harvard University. He is a Harvard University Presidential Scholar and his work is focused in the areas of punishment, revenge, and habitual goal selection. His coauthored articles are published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Fiery Cushman is Assistant Professor of Psychology at Harvard University, where he directs the Moral Psychology Research Laboratory. He previously served as Assistant Professor of Cognitive, Linguistic, and Psychological Sciences at Brown University. His research awards include the Stanton Prize by the Society for Philosophy and Psychology and the Daniel M. Wegner Theoretical Innovation Prize by the Society for Personality and Social Psychology. His teaching awards include the Henry Merrit Wriston Fellowship, Brown University’s highest recognition for pre-tenure faculty. Cushman is the author of several articles that appear in journals including Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Cognition, Criminal Law and Philosophy, and Psychological Inquiry. His research focuses on using the moral domain to understand the balance between learned and innate contributions to cognition, the human capacity to explain, predict and evaluate others’ behavior, the relationship between automaticity and control, and the architecture of learning and decision-making in a social context.
Ryan Muldoon is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University at Buffalo. He was a Core Author of the 2015 World Development Report: Mind, Society and Behavior (2015), and recently published Social Contract Theory for a Diverse World: Beyond Tolerance (2016). He works on social and political philosophy, with an emphasis on diverse societies, and his articles and coauthored papers are published in journals including Utilitas, Philosophy, Politics, and Economics, and Philosophical Studies.
Carol M. Rose is G. B. Tweedy Professor of Law Emerita at Yale Law School, and the Lohse Professor of Natural Resource Law Emerita at the University of Arizona. Her research includes many articles on the history and theory of property, environmental law, natural resources and intellectual property. She has written four books, Saving the Neighborhood: Racially Restrictive Covenants, Law, and Social Norms (with R. W. Brooks, 2013); El Derecho de Propiedad en Clave Interdisciplinaria [The Right to Property in an Interdisciplinary Key] (2010); Property and Persuasion (1994), and Perspectives on Property Law (4th ed. 2014, with R. C. Ellickson and H. E. Smith). Her work has appeared in many journals and anthologies, and has been translated into several other languages, including Italian, Spanish and Chinese. She is on the Board of Editors of the Foundation Press and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
David Shoemaker is Professor of Philosophy at Tulane University. He is the general editor of the Oxford University Press series Oxford Studies in Agency and Responsibility, an Associate Editor at the journal Ethics, and is, with David Sobel, co-editor of the ethics blog PEA Soup. His research is in agency, responsibility, moral psychology, and personal identity and ethics, and he has published numerous articles on these topics, including in the journals Ethics, Mind, Philosophical Studies, and Philosophy and Public Affairs. He is also the author of the book Responsibility from the Margins (2015).
John Thrasher is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Chapman University in both the Philosophy Department and at the Smith Institute for Political Economy and Philosophy. His work focuses on the relationship between practical rationality and social rules and norms. He has written on social contract theory, bargaining theory, logrolling in legislatures, stability, Adam Smith, and Epicurus. Recently he has focused on “bad norms” with his colleague Toby Handfield in philosophy and colleagues in experimental economics. His papers have been published in Nature Communications, American Journal of Political Science, Philosophical Studies, Synthese, Journal of Moral Philosophy, Political Studies, Ethical Theory and Moral Practice, European Journal of Philosophy, Adam Smith Review, and in several edited volumes.
Chad Van Schoelandt is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Tulane University, as well as an affiliated fellow with the F. A. Hayek Program for Advanced Study in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics at George Mason University. His primary research interests are in social and political philosophy, particularly regarding public reason liberalism, social morality, and moral accountability, and his work has been published in such journals as Ethics, Philosophical Studies, and Philosophical Quarterly.
Peter Vanderschraaf is Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Merced. His research focuses on the analysis of convention and the roles of convention in moral and political philosophy. He has held visiting appointments in the Program in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics sponsored by the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill and Duke University, as the John Findlay Visiting Associate Professor of Philosophy at Boston University, and as a member of the School of Social Sciences at the Institute for Advanced Study. He is completing a book Strategic Justice: Convention and Problems of Balancing Divergent Interests for Oxford University Press, and is the author of several articles published in journals such as Synthese, Politics, Philosophy, and Economics, and British Journal of the Philosophy of Science.
