Agnes Callard is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Chicago. She is the author of the book Aspiration: The Agency of Becoming (forthcoming, 2017), and has written a number of articles published or forthcoming in journals such as Review of Metaphysics, Ancient Philosophy, and Oxford Studies in Meta-Ethics. Her interests are in the work of Plato and Aristotle, in weakness and strength of will in ancient philosophy, and in contemporary ethics.
Elizabeth Brake is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Arizona State University. Her work is primarily in feminist ethics and political philosophy. Her book, Minimizing Marriage (2012), won an Honorable Mention for the 2014 APA Book Prize, and her edited collection After Marriage (2016) collects new feminist and liberal writing on marriage law after same-sex marriage. She has also written on procreative ethics, parental rights and obligations, liberalism, and Kant and Hegel. Her current project is on the state’s role in disaster response.
Philip Kitcher is John Dewey Professor of Philosophy at Columbia University. Over the course of his career he has published prolifically, authoring or co-authoring numerous articles and books, including in recent years the books The Seasons Alter: How to Save our Planet in Six Acts (2017; with Evelyn Fox Keller), Life After Faith: The Case for Secular Humanism (2014), Philosophy of Science: A New Introduction (2013; with Gillian Barker), Preludes to Pragmatism (2012), The Ethical Project (2011), and Science in a Democratic Society (2011). His research interests are in pragmatism (especially Dewey), science and social issues, naturalistic ethics, and philosophy in literature.
Darrel Moellendorf is Cluster Professor of International Political Theory at the Excellence Cluster Normative Orders, and Professor of Philosophy at Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Universität Frankfurt am Main. He is the author of Cosmopolitan Justice (2002), Global Inequality Matters (2009), and The Moral Challenge of Dangerous Climate Change: Values, Poverty, and Policy (2014). He co-edited (with Christopher J. Roederer) Jurisprudence (2004), (with Gillian Brock) Current Debates in Global Justice (2005), (with Thomas Pogge) Global Justice: Seminal Essays (2008) and (with Heather Widdows) The Routledge Handbook of Global Ethics (2014). He has been a Member of the School of Social Sciences at the Institute for Advanced Study (Princeton, NJ), a Senior Fellow at Justitia Amplificata at Goethe Universität-Frankfurt and the Forschungskolleg Humanwissenschaften (Bad Homburg).
Jonathan Anomaly is Assistant Professor in the Philosophy, Politics, Economics, and Law (PPEL) Program at the University of Arizona. He recently co-edited the first major anthology in the subject area of PPEL, titled Philosophy, Politics, and Economics (2015). He works mostly on issues at the intersection of ethics, economics, and biology. In particular, he is interested in modeling the problem of antibiotic resistance, and thinking through the moral trade-offs of different policy proposals aimed at addressing it. He is also interested in how our ability to understand and manipulate our children’s genes alters our reproductive responsibilities.
Allen Buchanan is James B. Duke Professor of Philosophy and Professor of Law at Duke University, (annual) Visiting Professor of the Philosophy of Law at the Dickson Poon School of Law, King’s College London, and Distinguished Research Associate at the Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, University of Oxford. He has published widely in journals such as Ethics, Philosophy and Public Affairs, and Journal of Political Philosophy and is the author of a number of books including The Heart of Human Rights (2013), Better than Human: The Promise and Perils of Enhancing Ourselves (2011), Beyond Humanity? The Ethics of Biomedical Enhancement (2011), Moral Progress and Human Rights (2011), and Human Rights, Legitimacy, and the Use of Force (2009). His research is mainly in political philosophy, philosophy of international law, social philosophy, moral epistemology, and bioethics, and his current chief research project is on moral progress.
Russell Powell is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Boston University. He has published in areas ranging from the philosophy of biology and bioethics to political and legal philosophy, in journals such as British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, Journal of Philosophy, Journal of Medicine and Philosophy, Biology and Philosophy, European Journal for the Philosophy of Science, American Journal of Bioethics, Behavioral and Brain Sciences, Journal of Political Philosophy, and the Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal. His areas of academic interest include philosophy of biological and biomedical science, philosophical bioethics, philosophy of medicine, legal and political philosophy, and philosophy of technology. In addition to working on conceptual and methodological problems in evolutionary theory, he actively researches and publishes on the epistemological and metaphysical dimensions of debates in contemporary bioethics, especially in relation to emerging biotechnologies.
Peter J. Boettke is Professor of Philosophy and Economics at George Mason University, the BB&T Professor for the Study of Capitalism, and the Director of the F. A. Hayek Program for Advanced Study in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University. In addition to a number of forthcoming publications, he is the author or co-author of the books Applied Mainline Economics: Bridging the Gap between Theory and Public Policy (2017; with Matthew D. Mitchell), and Institutional Economics: Property, Competition, Policies, 2nd edition, (2012; with Wolfgang Kasper and Manfred E. Streit). His articles appear in journals such as Journal of Private Enterprise, Review of Austrian Economics, Journal of Entrepreneurship and Public Policy, and Journal of Institutional Economics.
Rosolino A. Candela is a Postdoctoral Research Associate in Political Theory and a Lecturer in the Department of Economics at Brown University. He has two book projects under contract, one on price theory (with Peter Boettke), and an edited collection on F. A. Hayek, and his articles are published in Journal of Institutional Economics, Faith and Economics, and Sociologia, among other journals. His research interests include Austrian Economics, development economics, and political economy.
Daniel Austin Green is Program Director for the Templeton Religion Trust in Nassau, Bahamas, where he is responsible for developing grants across all parts of the mission of the Trust, including science, religion, the intersection of science and religion, individual freedom and free markets, character virtue development, and genius/exceptional cognitive talent. Previously, he was Director of Individual Freedom and Free Markets at the John Templeton Foundation in West Conshohocken, Pennsylvania, and Resident Scholar and then Fellow at Liberty Fund, Inc. in Indianapolis. He maintains active licenses as an attorney in Indiana and a Certified Public Accountant in Tennessee.
Roberta Q. Herzberg is a Distinguished Senior Fellow in the F. A. Hayek Program in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University. Her research and teaching focus on political economy, public choice, and health care policy. She has served as the principal investigator on a number of academic, state, and federal grants that examine the relationship between policy, institutions, and individual incentives. Dr. Herzberg has long been interested in the debate on liberty and the role of government in individuals’ lives and regularly leads seminars and lectures on public policy, the contributions of F. A. Hayek, the causes and consequences of economic freedom, and government entitlement policies.
Tyler Cowen is Holbert L. Harris Professor of Economics at George Mason University and also Director of the Mercatus Center. His book The Great Stagnation: How America Ate the Low-Hanging Fruit of Modern History, Got Sick, and Will (Eventually) Feel Better (2011) was a New York Times best-seller. He was recently named in an Economist poll as one of the most influential economists of the last decade, and Foreign Policy magazine named him as one of its “Top 100 Global Thinkers.” His latest book Average is over: Powering America out of the Great Stagnation (2013) focused on the implications of growing inequality. He also co-writes a blog at www.marginalrevolution.com, and he has recently initiated an online economics education project, MRUniversity.com.
Orlando Samões is Head of the Bachelor of Arts (Licenciatura) at the Institute for Political Studies of The Catholic University of Portugal (IEP-UCP) and the editor-in-chief of Nova Cidadania Quarterly Journal. He teaches part of “The Great Books” curriculum (Adam Smith, Montesquieu, Rousseau, and “Publius”) as well as decision theory. He has been a teaching assistant for political science and contemporary political thought at the Católica Lisbon School of Business and Economics, under the supervision of Professor João Carlos Espada. He has two complete specializations in public choice economics and corporate finance. His research concerns the connections between political theory and political economy. He enjoys studying problems relating to political, moral, and economic doctrines.
Adam James Tebble is Lecturer in Political Theory at King’s College, London and is the author of Hayek (2013) and Epistemic Liberalism: A Defence (2016). His research interests include contemporary liberalism, including epistemic approaches to liberalism, the politics of culture and identity, and distributive justice. His published articles have appeared in the journals Political Theory, Economics and Philosophy, and Political Studies, among others.
Shelley Burtt is Executive Director of Camphill Foundation, an organization dedicated to creating and promoting lifesharing communities where those with developmental disabilities can strive to meet their full potential. Prior to beginning her work with Camphill, she was a political philosopher with a BA and Ph.D. from Harvard University. She has published a book on eighteenth century political theory, Virtue Transformed: Political Argument in England 1688-1740 (1992) and numerous scholarly articles, as well as the 2009 New York Times Magazine article, “Saying Yes to Ryan.”
