Joel Anderson is a Research Lecturer in the philosophy department of Utrecht University in the Netherlands. He specializes in moral psychology and social theory, especially issues of autonomy, agency, mutual recognition and normativity. He co-edited (with John Christman) Autonomy and the Challenges to Liberalism (Cambridge University Press, 2005) and is currently writing a book entitled Scaffolded Autonomy: The Construction, Impairment, and Enhancement of Human Agency.

Lawrence Boland has been teaching microeconomic theory, methodology and the history of economic thought at Simon Fraser University since 1966. He has published six books and over 70 articles on economic methodology and he is an elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. His most recent book is The Foundations of Economic Methodology: A Popperian Perspective (Routledge, 2003).

Jesús Zamora Bonilla is Professor of Philosophy of Science in the Department of Logic, History, and Philosophy of Science of the National Open University of Spain (U.N.E.D.), Madrid. His research has centred on the application of rational choice theory to philosophy of science. Some of his recent papers in international journals are ‘An economic model of scientific rules’ (Economics and Philosophy, 2006), ‘Rhetoric, induction, and the free speech dilemma’ (Philosophy of Science, 2006), ‘Optimal judgment aggregation’ (Philosophy of Science, 2007) and ‘Credibility, idealization, and model building: an inferential approach’ (Erkenntnis, 2009). He is co-editing The SAGE Handbook of the Philosophy of the Social Sciences.

Christine Clavien is Junior Post-doctoral Lecturer at the University of Lausanne. Her recent books include Je t'aide moi non plus: biologique, comportemental ou psychologique, l'altruisme dans tous ses états (Vuivert, 2010) and, co-edited with Catherine El-Bez, Morale et évolution biologique; entre déterminisme et liberté (PPUR, 2007). Her current focus is on topics related to human sociality and the examination of interdisciplinary bridges between biology, economics, philosophy and psychology.

Raul Hakli is Researcher at the Department of Political and Economic Studies, University of Helsinki, Finland. His research interests include collective intentionality, in particular, collective decision making, collective epistemology, and logic of collective attitudes. He has published papers in journals such as Social Epistemology, Synthese and Journal of Philosophical Logic.

Daniel M. Hausman is the Herbert A. Simon Professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and one of the founding editors of this journal. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and author of a number of works at the boundaries between economics and philosophy. He is currently working on a book on preferences.

Rebekka A. Klein is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Heidelberg. Her recent books include Sozialität als Conditio Humana (Edition Ethik, 2010), which will be published in English as Sociality as the Human Condition (Brill, 2011). Her current focus is on the methodology of experimental economics and neuroeconomics.

Kaarlo Miller is a Researcher at the Department of Political and Economic Studies, University of Helsinki, Finland. His research focuses on social action, on collective intentionality and collective reasoning. He has published papers in various anthologies and journals like Philosophical Studies, Philosophical Explorations and Cognitive Systems Research.

Julian Reiss is Assistant Professor in the Philosophy Department of Erasmus University Rotterdam, specializing in philosophy of economics and general philosophy of science. Other publications include Causality between Metaphysics and Methodology (forthcoming with Routledge), ‘Causation in the social sciences: evidence, inference, and purpose’, Philosophy of the Social Sciences (2009), ‘Counterfactuals, thought experiments and singular causal analysis in history’, Philosophy of Science (PSA, 2008), ‘The philosophy of simulation: hot new topic or same old stew?’ (with Roman Frigg), Synthese (2009).

Olivier Roy is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Faculty of Philosophy of the University of Groningen. He obtained his PhD in 2008 at the University of Amsterdam, under the supervision of Johan van Benthem and Martin van Hees. His current research focuses on rational interaction, collective intentionality and public deliberation.

Andrea Salanti is Professor of Economics at the University of Bergamo, Italy. His methodological papers have appeared in journals such as Metroeconomica, Kyklos, Economics and Philosophy and Journal of Economic Methodology. He has been a co-editor of Pluralism in Economics (E. Elgar, 1997), Economic and Methodology: Crossing Boundaries (Macmillan, IEA series, 1998) and Macroeconomics and The Real World (2 Vols, Oxford University Press, 2000).

Margaret Schabas is a Professor of Philosophy at the University of British Columbia. She is the author of two monographs (A World Ruled by Number and The Natural Origins of Economics) and co-editor of two collections (Oeconomies in the Age of Newton and David Hume's Political Economy). Recent articles have appeared in The Monist, Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science, Daedalus and Philosophy of the Social Sciences. She is currently working on two projects, a monograph on Hume's economics and specific problems in the history and philosophy of bioeconomics.

Raimo Tuomela is Professor Emeritus at the Department of Political and Economic Studies, University of Helsinki, Finland and also permanent Visiting Professor at the Department of Philosophy at the University of Munich. His current main field of research is philosophy of sociality. He is a recipient of several grants and awards, including the von Humboldt Foundation Research Award, and he is Editor-in-Chief of the academic book series “Studies in the Philosophy of Sociality”, Springer, as well as a member of the editorial board of several journals and book series. His books include The Importance of Us: A Philosophical Study of Basic Social Notions (Stanford University Press, 1995), Cooperation: A Philosophical Study (Kluwer, 2000), The Philosophy of Social Practices: A Collective Acceptance View (Cambridge University Press, 2002) and The Philosophy of Sociality: The Shared Point of View (Oxford University Press, 2007).