David Schmidtz is Editor of Social Philosophy & Policy.
Allen Buchanan is Laureate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Arizona. He specializes in moral, political, and legal philosophy and is a fellow of the Hastings Center, an independent bioethics research institution. He has published most recently Our Moral Fate: Evolution and the Escape from Tribalism (2020); The Evolution of Moral Progress: A Biocultural Theory (2018; coauthored with Russell Powell); Institutionalizing the Just War (2018); The Heart of Human Rights (2013); Better Than Human: The Promise and Perils of Biomedical Enhancement (2012); and dozens of articles in law, philosophy, and bioethics journals and collections of essays.
Udo Schüklenk is a Professor of Philosophy and holds the Ontario Research Chair in Bioethics in the Department of Philosophy at Queen’s University at Kingston, Canada. His current main research focus is on ethical issues at the end of life and on the use and abuse of conscientious objection in health-care practice. He is an author or editor of nine books, over 100 peer-reviewed journal contributions, seventy book chapters or encyclopedia entries, as well as over eighty journal editorials. He is a long-serving Joint Editor-in-Chief of Bioethics, the official journal of the International Association of Bioethics.
Govind Persad is an Associate Professor at the University of Denver Sturm College of Law. He has published or forthcoming work on pandemic policy and ethics in the Journal of the American Medical Association, the New England Journal of Medicine, Science, The Lancet, the American Journal of Bioethics, the Hastings Center Report, and Journal of Medical Ethics, among others. He has also coauthored op-eds in the New York Times, Washington Post, USA Today, Boston Globe, and Denver Post, and collaborated in the development of the University of Pittsburgh model policy for allocation of scarce COVID-19 treatments. He was selected as a 2018–2021 Greenwall Faculty Scholar in Bioethics and as the 2022 Baruch A. Brody Award in Bioethics recipient.
Tyler Cowen is Holbert L. Harris Professor of Economics at George Mason University and Director of the Mercatus Center. He is well-published in both economics and philosophy journals, including American Economic Review, Journal of Political Economy, Journal of Economic Perspectives, Ethics, and Philosophy & Public Affairs. He runs the blog Marginal Revolution; is host of the podcast series Conversations with Tyler; and runs Marginal Revolution University, an online education site for economics. His book Stubborn Attachments: A Vision for a Society of Free, Prosperous, and Responsible Individuals (2018) is his most recent attempt to integrate economic and philosophical modes of reasoning. His latest book is Talent: How to Identify Energizers, Creatives, and Winners Around the World (2022; coauthored with Daniel Gross).
Julian Culp is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the American University of Paris. His research and teaching interests are in social and political philosophy, moral philosophy, and philosophy of education. He is most interested in theories of democracy, education, and justice, with special emphasis on normative issues arising from globalization and digitization. Culp is the author of Global Justice and Development (2014) and Democratic Education in a Globalized World (2019) as well as of numerous articles in journals such as Philosophy Compass, Theory and Research in Education, The European Journal of Political Theory, Third World Quarterly, and Zeitschrift für philosophische Forschung. He has recently edited Billionaires in World Politics (2022); Liberal Democratic Education in Crisis (2021); Democratic Education and the Challenges of Liberalism (2021); Education and Migration (2020); and Global Justice and Education (2019).
Gopal Sreenivasan is the Lester Crown University Distinguished Professor of Ethics at Duke University. He is the author of two books, most recently Emotion and Virtue (2020). Among other subjects in political philosophy, he has published two series of papers, one on rights and another on human rights. His current work is focused on finishing a new book, Rights and Human Rights (forthcoming), which integrates these papers with new material on both of these themes.
Shmuel Nili is an Associate Professor of Political Science at Northwestern University. He earned his Ph.D. in Political Science at Yale University. Nili’s work focuses on links between domestic and global injustice, with special attention to moral issues surrounding corporate agency, corruption, and abuse of power. His writing on these and other themes has appeared in many journals in philosophy and political science, including Ethics, the Journal of Political Philosophy, the American Political Science Review, the American Journal of Political Science, and the Journal of Politics. The same themes also dominate Nili’s first three books: The People’s Duty (2019); Integrity, Personal and Political (2020); and Philosophizing the Indefensible (2024). Nili is currently completing a book project focused on affluent democracies’ entanglement in foreign crime.
Cécile Fabre is Senior Research Fellow in Politics at All Souls College, Oxford, and Professor of Political Philosophy at the University of Oxford. She previously taught at the London School of Economics and the University of Edinburgh. She holds degrees from La Sorbonne University, the University of York, and the University of Oxford. Her research interests include theories of distributive justice, issues relating to the rights we have over our own body, just war theory, and the ethics of foreign policy. Her books include Cosmopolitan War (2012); Cosmopolitan Peace (2016); and Economic Statecraft (2018). In her most recent book, Spying Through a Glass Darkly (2022), she investigates the ethics of espionage. She has published articles in The Journal of Political Philosophy, Law and Philosophy, The British Journal of Political Science, and Ethics. In May 2022, she delivered the Tanner Lectures on Human Values at Stanford University. She is a Fellow of the British Academy.
Stephen Davies is Head of Education at the Institute of Economic Affairs in London. From 1979 until 2009 he was Senior Lecturer in the Department of History and Economic History at Manchester Metropolitan University. While there he taught courses on a range of topics, including world history, the history of crime and the criminal justice system in the United Kingdom, and the history of the Devil. He is coeditor of The Dictionary of Conservative and Libertarian Thought (1991; with Nigel Ashford). He is also the author of Empiricism and History (2003); The Wealth Explosion: The Nature and Origins of Modernity (2019); The Economics and Politics of Brexit (2020); The Streetwise Guide to the Devil and His Works (2021); and Apocalypse Next: The Economics of Global Catastrophic Risks (2024). Among his other interests are heavy metal, science fiction, and the fortunes of Manchester City.
Margaret Moore is Professor of Political Theory at Queen’s University, Canada. She is the author of Who Should own Natural Resources? (2019); A Political Theory of Territory (2015); Ethics of Nationalism (2001); and Foundations of Liberalism (1993). Moore has published articles in journals such as the American Journal of Political Science, Journal of Political Philosophy, Political Theory, and Ethics and International Affairs. She is currently working on indigenous land rights and territorial rights as well as limits on territorial sovereignty, especially in connection to the global climate and biodiversity loss crisis.
Alexander Rosenberg is R. Taylor Cole Professor of Philosophy at Duke University. He is the author of a dozen books and 240 papers in the philosophy of economics, the philosophy of biology, and the philosophy of science more broadly. He won the Lakatos Award in 1993 for one of his earlier books, Economics: Mathematical Politics or Science of Diminishing Returns? (1992). Rosenberg has published articles in journals such as American Philosophical Quarterly, Biology and Philosophy, Synthese, and Journal of Economic Methodology. He is working on a forthcoming book, From the Invisible Hand to Strategic Choice.
Jonathan Anomaly is the Academic Director of the Center for Philosophy, Politics, and Economics in Quito, Ecuador. Prior to that he taught at Duke University, Pennsylvania State University, and University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Anomaly is the author of Creating Future People: The Science and Ethics of Genetic Enhancement, 2nd ed. (2024) and coeditor of Philosophy, Politics, and Economics: An Anthology (2015; with Geoffrey Brennan, Michael Munger, and Geoffrey Sayre-McCord). Anomaly splits his time between Quito, Ecuador and Austin, Texas, where he works with a startup that enables parents who use in vitro fertilization to screen embryos for physical and mental traits.
Filipe Nobre Faria is a Researcher and Lecturer in Political Philosophy and Ethics at Nova University of Lisbon. He earned his Ph.D. in Political Theory from King’s College London, where his research bridged the disciplines of Philosophy, Politics, Economics, and Biology. His main research interest lies in applying insights from the behavioral and evolutionary sciences to issues in social and political philosophy. He is the author of The Evolutionary Limits of Liberalism (2019) and is currently working on the ethics of tribalism.
