David Schmidtz is Editor of Social Philosophy and Policy.
Christopher Freiman is Associate Professor of Philosophy at William and Mary. Professor Freiman’s research interests include democratic theory, distributive justice, and immigration. He is the author of Unequivocal Justice (2017) and Why It’s OK to Ignore Politics (2020) as well as numerous articles and book chapters. His work has appeared in venues such as the Australasian Journal of Philosophy, Philosophical Studies, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Utilitas, The Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy, Politics, Philosophy, and Economics, and The Oxford Handbook of Political Philosophy.
Clark Wolf is Professor of Philosophy and Director of Bioethics at Iowa State University. He also serves in the Graduate Program in Sustainable Agriculture, and teaches bioethics, philosophy of law, political philosophy, and ethics. His recent works include a book This Is Political Philosophy (forthcoming; co-written with Alex Tuckness), and papers on intellectual property rights, intergenerational justice, and sustainability. He also writes a regular column on ethics and biotechnology in Bioethics in Brief.
Lynn A. Jansen is Associate Professor at the Center for the Philosophy of Freedom at the University of Arizona. She does work in bioethics, research ethics, and clinical medical ethics. She is the past recipient of two NIH grants and one Greenwall Foundation grant to study informed consent in early-phase cancer trials. She is a coeditor of Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics, the editor of the book Death in the Clinic (2006), and the author or coauthor of a number of articles published in journals such as Journal of Medical Ethics, Bioethics, and the Journal of Medicine and Philosophy.
Iskra Fileva is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Colorado, Boulder. She specializes in moral psychology and issues at the intersection of philosophy, psychology, and psychiatry. She also does some work in epistemology, aesthetics, and problems at the border of ethics and economics. Her work has appeared in the journals Synthese, Australasian Journal of Philosophy, American Philosophical Quarterly, and European Journal of Philosophy, among others. She also hosts The Philosopher’s Diaries blog at Psychology Today.
Nathan Ballantyne is Associate Professor of Philosophy, Cognition, and Culture at Arizona State University. He does research in the areas of epistemology, ethics, environmental ethics, and the history of philosophy (especially the twentieth century in the United States and seventeenth century in Europe). He is the author of Knowing Our Limits (2019), and has coedited a collection of essays by epistemologists and psychologists entitled Reason, Bias, and Inquiry: New Perspectives from the Crossroads of Epistemology and Psychology (forthcoming; with David Dunning). He is also an Executive Editor of the Canadian Journal of Philosophy, where he handles submissions on epistemology.
Deborah G. Johnson is the Anne Shirley Carter Olsson Emeritus Professor of Applied Ethics in the Department of Engineering and Society at the University of Virginia. Drawing on her training in philosophy and ethics, Johnson has published on a wide range of topics, all directly or indirectly having to do with ethical, social, and policy implications of technology, especially information technology. Her recent papers have appeared in Minds and Machines, Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, and the Routledge Companion to the Philosophy of Technology. She is currently working on the book Engineering Ethics: Contemporary Debates (forthcoming).
Harrison Frye is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Georgia. He was previously a Junior Faculty Fellow at the Georgetown Institute of Markets and Ethics, and is primarily interested in the nature of the free society broadly understood. He has written on topics such as the moral evaluation of economic inequality, political obligation, and social freedom. He is currently working on two general projects. The first project focuses on freedom in the workplace. The second project is a criticism of public shaming on the Internet. Professor Frye’s work has appeared in journals such as Political Theory, Politics, Philosophy, and Economics, and Law and Philosophy.
Sally Stevens is a Distinguished Outreach Professor in Gender and Women’s Studies and a Research Professor with the Southwest Institute for Research on Women at the University of Arizona. Dr. Stevens conducts collaborative research in the areas of health, social justice, innovations in education, workforce development, and gender and race equity. Much of her work is community-based and involves advancing the health and well-being of marginalized individuals, families, and communities in southern Arizona. She has been the Principal Investigator, Co-Investigator, Project Director, Evaluator, and Project Advisor for more than sixty projects, with funding from the National Science Foundation, Ford Foundation, National Institutes of Health, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, Department of Justice, Library of Congress, and from other federal, state, local public and private agencies. She has published over three hundred journal articles and technical reports. Dr. Stevens is a 2019 recipient of the Presidential Award for Excellence in Science, Mathematics, and Engineering Mentoring—an award from the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy.
Colleen Murphy is the Roger and Stephany Joslin Professor of Law at the College of Law, and a professor in the Departments of Philosophy and Political Science, at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She is also director of the Women and Gender in Global Perspectives Program in the Illinois Global Institute. Professor Murphy is the author of The Conceptual Foundations of Transitional Justice (2017), which won the 2017 North American Society for Social Philosophy Book Award, and A Moral Theory of Political Reconciliation (2010). She is also coeditor of Engineering Ethics for a Globalized World (2015), Risk Analysis of Natural Hazards: Interdisciplinary Challenges and Integrated Solutions (2015), and Climate Change and Its Impacts: Risks and Inequalities (2018). Professor Murphy is an associate editor of the Journal of Moral Philosophy, Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy, Journal of Human Development and Capabilities, and Science and Engineering Ethics; on the editorial boards of the journals Law and Philosophy and Sustainable and Resilient Infrastructure; and a former member of the American Philosophical Association’s (APA) Committees on Philosophy and Law and on the Status of Women.
Sanford Ikeda is a Professor of Economics and Chair of the Economics Department at Purchase College of the State University of New York. He is on the Board of Directors of The Economic Freedom Institute, Cosmos and Taxis, and The Center for the Living City. His academic publications have appeared in The Southern Economic Journal, The Review of Austrian Economics, Environmental Politics, and The American Journal of Economics and Sociology, among other journals. He has contributed entries for The International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences (on Robert Moses) and for The Encyclopedia of Libertarianism (on Jane Jacobs, rent seeking, and interventionism). He has also lectured globally and published in Forbes and National Review Online. Dr. Ikeda’s current research focuses on the interconnections among cities, social cooperation, and entrepreneurial development; and he is currently writing a book on the economics and social theory of Jane Jacobs.
Daniel Asia is Professor of Music and Area Head of Composition at the University of Arizona. He is a composer, conductor, educator, and writer. His five symphonies have received wide acclaim from live performance and their international recordings. He was Composer-in-Residence of the Phoenix Symphony from 1991–1994, and was honored with a Music Academy Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 2010. Asia has been the recipient of grants from UK Fulbright, Guggeneheim Fellowship, Meet the Composer, MacDowell and Tanglewood Fellowships, ASCAP and BMI prizes, Copland Fund grants, and numerous others. His writings can be found in publications such as Academic Questions, the Huffington Post, and The New Criterion. His collected essays can be found in his most recent book, entitled Observations on Music, Culture, and Politics (2021).
Robert Edward Gordon is Assistant Research Professor in the Center for the Philosophy of Freedom, and Adjunct Faculty in the Fred Fox School of Music at the University of Arizona. He is also a Fellow at the University of Arizona Center for Buddhist Studies and Culture Editor for Transcendence Broadcasting-Champaign Public Media. He has taught art history and philosophy at various colleges and universities, lectured at large corporations and museums, and has worked as a corporate art consultant and gallery manager. His work encompasses a broad range of interests: the Western art canon, Eastern art and architecture, art and economics, freedom and aesthetics, art and poverty, and humanistic geography. His writings can be found in The Wall Street Journal, the journals Space and Culture, Philosophies, The Athenaeum Review, Social Philosophy and Policy, and elsewhere.
Allen Buchanan is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Arizona. He formerly was the James B. Duke Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at Duke University, as well as Investigator at the Institute for Genome Sciences and Policy at Duke University and Distinguished Research Fellow at Oxford Uehiro Centre. His primary research is in political philosophy, philosophy of international law, bioethics, and social and moral epistemology. His most recent books include Our Moral Fate: Evolution and the Escape from Tribalism (2020), Institutionalizing the Just War (2018), and The Evolution of Morality: A Biocultural Theory (2018; with Russell Powell), and he has published prolifically in journals including Ethics, Philosophy and Public Affairs, Ethics and International Affairs, and Journal of Medical Ethics.
George Grantham is Emeritus Professor of Economics at McGill University. His research focuses on economic history. He is coauthor of the book Labour Market Evolution: The Economic History of Market Integration, Wage Flexibility, and the Employment Relation (1994; with Mary McKinnon), and the author of articles that are published in journals such as Journal of Economic History, Economic History Review, European Review of Economic History, and Historical Methods, as well as numerous chapters in edited collections.
