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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2020

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ANNA BORTOLAN is an IRC Government of Ireland Postdoctoral Fellow in the School of Philosophy at University College Dublin, where she is carrying out a two‐year research project (2016–2018) titled “The Phenomenology of Self‐Esteem.” Her research interests are primarily in phenomenology, philosophy of emotion, and philosophy of psychiatry. Prior to joining UCD, Anna received a PhD in philosophy from Durham University. ()

MEGAN M. BURKE is an assistant professor of philosophy and gender and women's studies at Oklahoma State University. Dr. Burke specializes in feminist philosophy, phenomenology, contemporary continental philosophy, and queer theory. She is currently working on a manuscript that examines the relationship among temporality, sexual violence, and normative genders. ()

CHRISTINA FRIEDLAENDER is a doctoral candidate in philosophy at the University of Memphis. Christina is working on a dissertation tentatively titled, “Sharing Intentions Under Non‐Ideal Conditions,” which critiques the ideal theory framework presupposed by standard accounts of shared intention and offers a new approach for conceptualizing shared intentions under non‐ideal conditions, especially under conditions of structural oppression. More broadly, Christina's research interests include shared and collective responsibility, social ontology, social epistemology, philosophy of mind, and political philosophy. ()

TRYSTAN S. GOETZE is a PhD candidate in philosophy at the University of Sheffield. His research interests lie at the intersection of ethics and epistemology, informed by feminist, analytic, and pragmatist approaches, with side interests in the philosophy of education and the history of philosophy. His thesis explores our moral and epistemic responsibilities for the concepts we use, especially our concepts of social groups. He co‐organized the 2017 Annual Conference of the Royal Institute of Philosophy, the proceedings of which will appear as a supplementary issue of Philosophy on “Harms and Wrongs in Epistemic Practice.” ()

CELESTE HARVEY completed her PhD at Marquette University (2016). Her research is focused on moral philosophy and feminism, and her most recent work is dedicated to developing the theoretical resources of ancient eudaimonist philosophy for feminist ethics. A Catherine of Siena Fellow in the Ethics Program at Villanova University (2016–2017), she was recently appointed assistant professor of philosophy and director of the Ethics Program at College of Saint Mary, Omaha, NE. ()

JESSICA KEAN is a Scholarly Teaching Fellow in the Department of Gender and Cultural Studies at the University of Sydney. Her research combines cultural studies methods with queer and feminist theory to consider gender, sexuality, and intimate relationships, specializing in nonmonogamous relationships and mononormativity. She has recent publications in Sexualities, Cultural Studies Review, and Australian Feminist Studies. ()

ITZEL MAYANS is currently researcher in political theory at Instituto Dr. José María Luis Mora in México City, after obtaining her PhD in philosophy (with honors) at UNAM in 2016. Her dissertation focused on abortion and public reason. She did a research stay in the Department of Politics at Princeton University in 2011–2012, and her work has appeared in several journals in Mexico. She has presented in a number of forums, among which is the 33rd edition of the proceedings of the annual conference of the North American Society for Social Philosophy in Carleton, Ontario in July 2016. ()

MARGARET A. SIMONS, Distinguished Research Professor Emerita, Philosophy Department, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, is a founding editor of Hypatia, former co‐director of SPEP, and author of Beauvoir and The Second Sex: Feminism, Race, and the Origins of Existentialism (1999). Editor of anthologies on Beauvoir's philosophy, she is co‐editor, with Sylvie Le Bon de Beauvoir, of the Beauvoir Series at the University of Illinois Press, including Beauvoir's Philosophical Writings (2004), Diary of a Philosophy Student, 1926–27 (2006), Wartime Diary (2009), “The Useless Mouths” and Other Literary Writings (2011), Political Writings (2012), Feminist Writings (2015), and Diary of a Philosophy Student, 1927–30 (forthcoming). ()

MOISÉS VACA is a researcher at the Institute for Philosophical Research, UNAM, Mexico, after completing his PhD in philosophy at UCL, London, in 2013. In political philosophy, his interests concentrate on political liberalism and minority and disadvantaged groups, including victims of historical injustice. In normative ethics, his interests concentrate on whether contractualism can be a satisfactory method of normative justification. His work has appeared in several journals, including Res Publica and the Harvard Review of Philosophy. ()

VERÓNICA ZEBADÚA YÁÑEZ is a vising lecturer in the Gender Studies Department at Mount Holyoke College, and a Research Associate at the Five College Women's Studies Research Center. She is also a doctoral candidate in politics at the New School for Social Research, writing a dissertation on Hannah Arendt's and Simone de Beauvoir's conceptions of freedom as lived experience. She specializes in modern and contemporary political theory, feminist theory/philosophy, and queer theory. Other scholarly interests are transnational feminisms, with a focus on gender justice. She worked for over seven years in the United Nations system, focusing on women's rights. ()