David Schmidtz is Editor of Social Philosophy and Policy.
Jenann Ismael is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Arizona. She works in the areas of philosophy of physics, metaphysics, philosophy of science, and the philosophy of mind, and is the author of numerous articles on space, time, the foundations of quantum mechanics, the nature of probability, causation, the self, temporal experience, and death. She has written three books: Essays on Symmetry (2000), The Situated Self (2007), and, most recently, How Physics Makes Us Free (2016).
Andrew Mason is Professor of Political Theory at the University of Warwick where he has taught since 2012. He has also held posts at the University of Southampton, the University of Reading, the University of Hull, and the University of St Andrews. He has written widely on a number of issues in political theory, including normative theories of citizenship, equality of opportunity and its place within a theory of justice, multiculturalism as a normative approach to cultural and religious diversity, the significance of deep disagreement over moral and political issues for theories of justice, as well as contributing to methodological debates about how political theory should be done. His most recent book is Living Together as Equals: The Demands of Citizenship (2012).
Alexander Rosenberg is the R. Taylor Cole Professor of Philosophy at Duke University, with secondary appointments in the biology and political science departments. Rosenberg has been a visiting professor and fellow at the Center for the Philosophy of Science, University of Minnesota, as well as the University of California, Santa Cruz, and Oxford University and a visiting fellow of the Philosophy Department at the Research School of Social Science, of the Australian National University. He has held fellowships from the National Science Foundation, the American Council of Learned Societies, and the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation. Rosenberg is the author of twelve academic books, a novel, and numerous articles. His articles appear in journals such as the European Journal for Philosophy of Science, British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, and Biology and Philosophy as well as other outlets like the New York Times.
Edward Hall is a Lecturer in Political Theory at the University of Sheffield. His work has appeared in the European Journal of Political Theory, Political Studies, and Social Theory and Practice. His current research focuses on the realist critique of mainstream Anglo-American political philosophy, political ethics, and British political thought since World War II.
Gerald Gaus is James E. Rogers Professor of Philosophy at the University of Arizona, where he directs the program in Philosophy, Politics, Economics, and Law. He has published extensively in edited collections and in academic journals such as Ethics, Philosophical Studies, and Public Affairs Quarterly, and is the author of a number of books, including Value and Justification (1990), Justificatory Liberalism (1996), On Contemporary Theories of Liberalism (2003), and The Order of Public Reason (2011). His most recent book is The Tyranny of the Ideal: Justice in a Diverse Society (2016).
James Woodward is Distinguished Professor in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Pittsburgh. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and served as President of the Philosophy of Science Association from 2010 – 2012. His book Making Things Happen: A Theory of Causal Explanation (2003) won the Imre Lakatos award for the best book in philosophy of science in 2005. Although he works primarily in philosophy of science, Woodward maintains an active interest in ethics and political philosophy, particularly in issues having to do with the bearing of empirical results from the behavioral and social sciences on these areas of philosophy. His recent papers in this vein are published in journals such as Journal of Neuroscience, Journal of Physiology-Paris, and Philosophical Issues.
David Miller is Professor of Political Theory at the University of Oxford, and an Official Fellow of Nuffield College. He has written widely on questions of political theory and philosophy, including social justice, nationality and citizenship, and democracy. His books include On Nationality (1995), Principles of Social Justice (1999), National Responsibility and Global Justice (2007), and Justice for Earthlings (2013), and, most recently, Strangers in Our Midst: The Political Philosophy of Immigration (2016). Alongside his work on immigration, he is currently working in the areas of territorial boundaries and on how to do political philosophy.
Michael L. Frazer is Lecturer in Political and Social Theory at the University of East Anglia. He is the author of the book The Enlightenment of Sympathy: Justice and the Moral Sentiments in the Eighteenth Century and Today (2010), and his articles are published in such journals as Political Theory, Review of Politics, and Journal of Political Philosophy. His research focuses on canonical moral and political philosophy and its relevance for ethics, political theory, and the philosophy of social science today.
Neera K. Badhwar is Professor Emerita of Philosophy at the University of Oklahoma, and an affiliate at George Mason University. Her articles on moral psychology, ethical theory, and social-political philosophy have appeared in Journal of Philosophy, Ethics, Nous, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Politics, Philosophy, and Economics, American Philosophical Quarterly, and other journals. She is also the author of the book, Well-Being: Happiness in a Worthwhile Life (2014) and an anthology, Friendship: A Philosophical Reader (1993). She has held fellowships at the University Center for Human Values, Princeton University, Social Philosophy and Policy Center, and Dalhousie University.
Michael Huemer is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Colorado at Boulder. He is the author of more than fifty academic articles in ethics, epistemology, political philosophy, and metaphysics, as well as the books Skepticism and the Veil of Perception (2001), Ethical Intuitionism (2005), The Problem of Political Authority (2013), and Approaching Infinity (2016).
William A. Galston holds the Ezra K. Zilkha Chair in the Brookings Institution’s Governance Studies Program, where he serves as a senior fellow. He has published academic articles in journals such as Ethics, Review of Politics, and Social Philosophy and Policy, and is the author of several books including Political Liberalism: The Implications of Value Pluralism for Political Theory and Practice (2002), Patriotism: What Is It Good For (2008; with Chandran Kukathas), and Poverty and Morality: Religious and Secular Perspectives (2010; with Peter H. Hoffenberg). A former policy advisor to President Clinton and presidential candidates, Galston is an expert on domestic policy, political campaigns, and elections. His current research focuses on designing a new social contract and the implications of political polarization.
Matt Sleat is Senior Lecturer in Political Theory at the University of Sheffield. He is the author of Liberal Realism: A Realist Theory of Liberal Politics (2013), and his articles have appeared in journals such as Political Theory, Review of Politics, Political Studies, Social Theory and Practice, International Politics, European Journal of Political Theory, and International Political Theory. He was a Visiting Research Fellow in the Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Oxford, and a British Academy Mid-Career Fellow in 2015. He is the coeditor of the European Journal of Political Theory.
Zofia Stemplowska is Associate Professor of Political Theory and Asa Briggs Fellow of Worcester College, University of Oxford. She is the coeditor (with Carl Knight) of Responsibility and Distributive Justice (2011) and the author or coauthor (with Kimberley Brownlee, Matthew Clayton, Timothy Fowler, Alan Hamlin, Carl Knight, and Adam Swift) of articles in journals including Ethics, Journal of Applied Philosophy, and Jurisprudence. Her publications address the topics of moral and substantive responsibility, luck egalitarianism, global justice, human rights, as well as ideal and nonideal theory. Her latest research interests concern the problem of mitigation of historical injustice.
David Estlund is the Lombardo Family Professor of Humanities and Philosophy at Brown University, where he has taught since 1991. He taught for five years at University of California, Irvine, and for a visiting semester at Harvard Law School. His research focuses on social and political philosophy. He is the author of the book Democratic Authority: A Philosophical Framework (2008), and editor of The Oxford Handbook of Political Philosophy (2012), among other volumes. His most recent articles appear in Philosophy and Public Affairs and Oxford Studies in Political Philosophy.
Jacob T. Levy is Tomlinson Professor of Political Theory in the Department of Political Science and an associate member of the Department of Philosophy at McGill University. He is the coordinator of Montreal’s Groupe de Recherche Interuniversitaire en Philosophie Politique and of McGill’s Research Group on Constitutional Studies, and founding director of McGill’s Yan P. Lin Centre for the Study of Freedom and Global Orders in the Ancient and Modern Worlds. He is the author of The Multiculturalism of Fear (2000) and Rationalism, Pluralism, and Freedom (2014). He is the coeditor of Colonialism and Its Legacies (2011; with Iris Marion Young), Nomos LV: Federalism and Subsidiarity (2014; with James Fleming), and editor of the forthcoming Oxford Handbook of Classics in Contemporary Political Theory.
Annette Förster is Lecturer and Research Associate in Political Science at the Institute for Political Science at RWTH Aachen University. Her research interests and publications focus on the intersection between political theory, political philosophy, and the philosophy of law. She is especially concerned with questions of international justice, human rights, and the legitimacy of state power. She is author of Peace, Justice and International Order: Decent Peace in John Rawls’ The Law of Peoples (2014) and has also published articles on international distributive justice, the torture debate in Western democracies, and the state of emergency in democracies with a focus on counterterrorism. She is currently working on a new book on the relation between torture and democracy in political theory and practice.
Eric MacGilvray is Associate Professor of Political Science and Philosophy (by courtesy) at Ohio State University. He is the author of The Invention of Market Freedom (2011) and Reconstructing Public Reason (2004), and of articles in a number of leading journals. He is currently working on a book entitled Liberal Freedom.
Simon Hope is a Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Stirling. His research is mostly concerned with developing themes in Kantian and Aristotelian practical philosophy in response to modern debates about justice. He also writes on the philosophy of Maori political argument in his homeland of Aotearoa New Zealand, themes of distributive justice, and multiculturalism.
Robert Jubb is a Lecturer in Political Theory in the Department of Politics and International Relations at the University of Reading. His research focuses on methodological and substantive questions raised by the failure of the egalitarian political projects favored by many political theorists and philosophers working in the tradition that tends to trace back to Rawls. He has published work on ideal theory, the realist critique of contemporary political philosophy and citizens’ relationship to state injustices in journals like Journal of Politics, Political Studies, Journal of Moral Philosophy, European Journal of Political Theory, and Social Theory and Practice.
Mark Philp is Professor of History and Politics at the University of Warwick and is an Emeritus Fellow of Oriel College, Oxford. His work has focused on contemporary political theory, the history of political thought and political sociology, with special reference to political corruption and standards in public life. Recent work includes Political Conduct (2007) and a series of papers on realism in political theory in the journals Social Theory and Practice, European Journal of Political Theory, and Political Theory. His most recent book is Reforming Ideas in Britain: Politics and Language in the Shadow of the French Revolution (2013).
Geoffrey Brennan is Distinguished Research Professor of Philosophy at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and Co-Director of the Duke University-University of North Carolina Philosophy, Politics, and Economics Program. He is the author of nine books, including (with James Buchanan) The Reason of Rules: Constitutional Political Economy (1985), (with Loren Lomasky) Democracy and Decision: the Pure Theory of Electoral Preference (1993), (with Alan Hamlin), Democratic Devices and Desires (2000) and most recently, (with Philip Pettit) The Economy of Esteem (2004). He is also the author or coauthor of numerous articles, which are published in journals such as Synthese, Journal of Political Philosophy, Politics, Philosophy and Economics, The Monist, and Philosophical Issues.
Geoffrey Sayre-McCord is the Morehead-Cain Alumni Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he has taught since 1985. He is Director of the University of North Carolina’s Philosophy, Politics, and Economics Program. Sayre-McCord has published extensively on metaethics, moral theory, epistemology, and the history of moral philosophy (especially concerning Hume and Smith).
