Filip Buekens lectures in the philosophy of language at the Universities of Tilburg (the Netherlands) and at the Catholic University of Leuven (Flanders, Belgium). His recent publications include work on disagreement, the explanatory role of the concept of truth, and applications of Searle's theory of institutional facts.
Campbell Brown is a Lecturer in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Edinburgh.
Mikaël Cozic is Assistant Professor at the University of Paris-Est and member of the research team ‘Decision, Rationalité et Interaction’ at the Institut d'Histoire et de Philosophie des Sciences et des Techniques (ENS Ulm, Paris 1 and CNRS). His main research interests are in the philosophy of economics, the foundations of rational choice theory and philosophy of science.
Igor Douven holds the Chair in Formal Epistemology at the University of Groningen. His research interests are in epistemology, philosophy of science and philosophy of language. He wrote on such diverse topics as assertion, coherence, conditionals, confirmation, identity, inference to the best explanation, rational acceptability and scientific realism.
Stan du Plessis is a macroeconomist at the University of Stellenbosch in South Africa where he is a Professor in the Department of Economics and an economist at the Bureau for Economic Research. He is the president of the Economic Society of South Africa and formerly treasurer and secretary of the African Econometric Society. He was a member of the ‘Harvard group’ of local and international economists who advised government on policy reform since 2006. His research has focused on monetary policy and the business cycle but he has also written on the economic impact of the FIFA World Cup, fiscal policy, economic growth, the exchange rate, institutional economics and law and economics.
Martin Jones is a Lecturer in the Department of Economic Studies at the University of Dundee. His main research is in the area of experimental economics, specializing in game theory and decision theory. He also has an interest in the application of philosophy to problems in experimental economics.
Robert Mayer is a political theorist in the Department of Political Science at Loyola University Chicago. He has published articles on the theory and practice of exploitation and is the author of a book on payday lending entitled Quick Cash: The Story of the Loan Shark (Northern Illinois University Press, 2010).
Michiru Nagatsu is a philosopher of science. His research interests include the methodological and metaphysical issues in the behavioural and social sciences. He has published in Philosophy of the Social Sciences and the Journal of Economic Methodology.
Jesper Ryberg is Professor of Ethics and Philosophy of Law at Roskilde University, Denmark. His recent books include Punishing War, Genocide, and Crimes Against Humanity (edited, Springer 2010); New Waves in Applied Ethics (edited with T. Petersen and C. Wolf, Palgrave Macmillan 2007); The Repugnant Conclusion (edited with T. Tannsjo, Springer, 2004); and The Ethics of Proportionate Punishment (Springer, 2004).
J. P. Smit is a Lecturer at the University of Stellenbosch. He has published on meta-ethics and on externalist theories of reference. His current research interests are in semantics and the philosophy of economics.
Ran Spiegler is a Professor of Economics at Tel Aviv University and University College London. His new book Bounded Rationality and Industrial Organization is forthcoming in Oxford University Press. His current research focuses on models of bounded rationality, especially in market contexts.
Peter Vanderschraaf is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of California Merced. He works on the analysis of social conventions and the role of conventions in moral and political philosophy.
