José Luis Bermúdez is Professor of Philosophy at Washington University in St Louis, where he is Director of the Philosophy–Neuroscience–Psychology program and Director of the Center for Programs in Arts and Sciences. His books include The Paradox of Self-Consciousness (MIT, 1998), Thinking without Words (Oxford University Press, 2003), Philosophy of Psychology: A Contemporary Introduction (Routledge, 2005) and Decision Theory and Rationality (Oxford University Press, 2009).

Krister Bykvist is a Fellow and Tutor in Philosophy at Jesus College, Oxford. His most recent publications include ‘Preference-formation and intergenerational justice’, in Intergenerational Justice, ed. A. Gosseries and K. Meyer (Oxford University Press, 2009, pp. 301–322), and ‘No good fit – Why the fitting attitude analysis of value fails’, (Mind, 2009, 18: 763–792). His current research is on well-being, happiness, and the distinction between subjective and objective moral oughts.

Nancy Cartwright is Professor of Philosophy at the LSE (since 1991) and at UC San Diego (since 1998). She is a MacArthur Fellow and a Fellow of the British Academy. She is serving as President of the Philosophy of Science Association and the American Philosophical Association (Pacific Division). She specializes in the history and philosophy of science and causal inference.

Ivan Moscati is Lecturer in Economics at Bocconi University, Milan. His research focuses on the history and methodology of microeconomics, with special attention to choice and utility theory, experimental and behavioural economics, and the epistemic foundations of game theory.

Judea Pearl is Professor of Computer Science and Statistics at UCLA. He conducts research in artificial intelligence, human cognition and philosophy of science, and is the author of Heuristics (1984), Probabilistic Reasoning (1988), and Causality (2000, 2nd edn 2009). He received the Lakatos Award from the LSE in 2002, and the Benjamin Franklin Medal for Computer and Cognitive Science in 2008.

Alejandro Rosas is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the Universidad Nacional de Colombia in Bogotá, and currently senior Fellow at the Konrad Lorenz Institute for Evolution and Cognition Research, in Austria. His main area of research is the evolution of cooperation and of morality.

Federica Russo is Chargé de Recherche du FNRS at the Université catholique de Louvain and honorary research fellow at the University of Kent. She is the author of Causality and Causal Modelling in the Social Sciences. Measuring Variations (Springer, 2009) and of various articles (single and co-authored) exploring methodological and epistemological issues in causal analysis in social and biomedical contexts.

Thomas C. Schelling is Professor of Political Economy, Emeritus, Harvard University, and Distinguished University Professor, Emeritus, University of Maryland. His main interests have been strategic and bargaining theory, nuclear weapons policy, climate change and theory of interactive behavior. His books include The Strategy of Conflict, 1960; Arms and Influence, 1966; Micromotives and Macrobehavior, 1978; and Strategies of Commitment, 2006.

Daniel Steel is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Michigan State University. His work on causal inference and explanation has appeared in Philosophy of the Social Sciences, British Journal of the Philosophy of Science and Philosophy of Science as well as in a recent book titled Across the Boundaries: Extrapolation in Biology and Social Science (2008, Oxford).

Robert Sugden is Professor of Economics at the University of East Anglia, Norwich. His research uses a combination of theoretical, experimental and philosophical methods to investigate issues in welfare economics, social choice, choice under uncertainty, the foundations of decision and game theory, the methodology of economics, and the evolution of social conventions. His recent books include The Economics of Rights, Cooperation and Welfare (Palgrave Macmillan, 2nd edn 2004) and, with five co-authors, Experimental Economics: Re-thinking the Rules (Princeton University Press, forthcoming).