Kaushik Basu is currently Chief Economic Adviser, Government of India, Ministry of Finance, on leave from Cornell University's Department of Economics, where he is Professor of Economics and C. Marks Professor of International Studies. His recently completed manuscript, Beyond the Invisible Hand: A Manifesto for a New Economics, is to be published by Princeton University Press later this year.
Dan Batson was a member of the Department of Psychology at the University of Kansas from 1972–2008, and is a Professor Emeritus there. He now lives in Knoxville, Tennessee, where he has a courtesy appointment as an Adjunct Professor of Psychology at the University of Tennessee. His research has focused primarily on the existence of altruistic motivation and on its antecedents and consequences. He is the author of The Altruism Question: Toward a Social–Psychological Answer (Erlbaum Associates, 1991), a chapter in The Handbook of Social Psychology (4th edn) on ‘Altruism and Prosocial Behavior’ (McGraw-Hill, 1998), and Altruism in Humans (Oxford University Press, forthcoming).
Luigino Bruni is Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Milano-Bicocca. He works on the history of economic thought, economics and philosophy, ethics and cultural evolution. His books include Reciprocity, Altruism and Civil Society (Routledge, 2008), and Capability and Happiness (editor, with F. Comim and M. Pugno, Oxford University Press, 2008).
Philip Kitcher is the John Dewey Professor of Philosophy at Columbia University. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a former President of the American Philosophical Association (Pacific Division). The author of many books and articles on a wide variety of topics, he was the first recipient of the Prometheus Prize, offered by the American Philosophical Association for lifetime work in expanding the frontiers of science and philosophy.
Harro Maas is associate professor in history and methodology of economics at the University of Amsterdam. His book William Stanley Jevons and the Making of Modern Economics (Cambridge University Press, 2005) won the Joseph J. Spengler Best Book Award of the History of Economics Society. He is currently leading a research project on the history of observation in economics.
Mark Peacock is Associate Professor in the Department of Social Science at York University, Toronto. His recent publications include ‘Starvation and social class: Amartya Sen on markets and famines’ (Review of Political Economy, forthcoming) and ‘Path-dependence in the production of scientific knowledge’ (2009, Social Epistemology 23/2).
Martin Peterson is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Eindhoven Technical University. He is author of two books: An Introduction to Decision Theory (Cambridge University Press 2009) and Non-Bayesian Decision Theory (Springer 2008).
Michael Schefczyk is Interim Professor of Political Theory and Philosophy in the Department of Political Science at Munich University. His recent publications include Mill: Zur Einführung (with Dominique Kuenzle, Junius Verlag, 2009) and ‘The multiple self objection to the prudential lifespan account’ (2009, Journal of Medical Ethics 35/1).
Hans Bernhard Schmid is SNF-Professor for Philosophy at the University of Basel. His recent book publications include Plural Action – Essays in Philosophy and Social Science (Springer, 2009) and, co-edited with Fabienne Peter, Rationality and Commitment (Oxford University Press, 2007). His current research project is on Collective Intentionality.
Bruno Verbeek teaches ethics and political philosophy at Leiden University. He is the author of Instrumental Rationality and Moral Philosophy (Kluwer: 2002) and has published numerous articles on the relation between rationality and morality. Recently, he edited a volume on Reasons and Intentions (Ashgate, 2008).
