Jelle de Boer is a Lecturer in Philosophy at Delft University of Technology. He has published ‘A Strawson-Lewis Defence of Social Preferences’ (2012) in Economics and Philosophy. He has also recently published in Biology and Philosophy, and in Philosophical Psychology.

Ian Carter is Associate Professor of Political Philosophy at the University of Pavia, Italy. His research has mainly concentrated on the concepts of freedom, equality and rights. He is the author of A Measure of Freedom (Oxford University Press, 1999), and editor, with Stephen de Wijze and Matthew Kramer, of Hillel Steiner and the Anatomy of Justice (Routledge, 2009). His most recent articles have appeared in Economics and Philosophy, Ethics, Journal of Applied Philosophy and Journal of Political Philosophy. He is currently working on basic equality and respect for persons, and on the implications of these ideas for a freedom-based theory of egalitarian justice.

R.J.G. (Rutger) Claassen is Associate Professor of Ethics and Political Philosophy at the Department of Philosophy of Utrecht University. He obtained his PhD in 2008 for a thesis about the moral limits of markets. His research interests include theories of justice (especially the capability approach), economic and ethical theories about regulating and limiting markets; and conceptions of freedom and autonomy, and the limits of state interventions in private life. Recent articles appeared amongst others in Politics, Philosophy & Economics (2009), Political Studies (2011), Inquiry (2012), Law & Philosophy (2012) and Journal of Social Philosophy (2013). He is currently working on a monograph defending a capability theory of justice.

Ann E. Cudd is University Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the University of Kansas, where she is also Vice Provost and Dean of Undergraduate Studies. Her recent works include Capitalism, For and Against: A Feminist Debate (Cambridge University Press, 2011) co-authored with Nancy Holmstrom, and Analyzing Oppression (Oxford University Press, 2006). She is currently working on the legitimacy of interpersonal and intercultural interventions.

Marc Fleurbaey teaches at Princeton University. He is the author of Beyond GDP (Oxford University Press 2013, with D. Blanchet), A Theory of Fairness and Social Welfare (Cambridge University Press 2011, with F. Maniquet), and Fairness, Responsibility and Welfare (Oxford University Press 2008).

Mozaffar Qizilbash is Professor of Politics, Economics and Philosophy at the University of York. His work focuses on connected issues at the borderlines of economics and philosophy relating to well-being, capability, incommensurability, rationality and vagueness. He has published in journals in economics – including Oxford Economic Papers and Social Choice and Welfare – and philosophy – including Philosophy and Phenomenological Research and the Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society.

Amartya Sen is Thomas W. Lamont University Professor, and Professor of Economics and Philosophy, at Harvard University. He was previously Master of Trinity College, Cambridge. His writings on subjects ranging from welfare economics to political philosophy have been translated into more than thirty languages. Recent books include The Idea of Justice (2010), Identity and Violence: The Illusion of Destiny (2006) and The Argumentative Indian (2005). Amartya Sen has received numerous awards, including the ‘Bharat Ratna’ (the highest honour awarded by the President of India), the National Humanities Medal (USA) and the Nobel Prize in Economics.

Jussi Suikkanen is a Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Birmingham. His main research interests are in metaethics and ethical theories on which he has published a number of articles in journals such as Oxford Studies in Metaethics, The Philosophical Quarterly and Pacific Philosophical Quarterly. He has recently written a textbook entitled This is Ethics – an Introduction, which will be published by Wiley-Blackwell in 2014.

Naftali Weinberger is a doctoral candidate at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. His current research focuses on the extrapolation of causal relationships across populations. His previous research has appeared in Philosophy of Science and in a coauthored article in Philosophy and Biology.