Bas van der Vossen is Associate Professor in the Smith Institute for Political Economy and Philosophy, as well as the Philosophy Department at Chapman University. He is the author of In Defense of Openness: Why Global Freedom Is the Humane Solution to Global Poverty (2018, with Jason Brennan), and Debating Humanitarian Intervention: Should We Try to Save Strangers? (2017, with Fernando Tesón). His work focuses on questions of political philosophy, primarily the ethical dimensions of international affairs, state authority, and the justification of property rights. He is Guest Editor of this issue of Social Philosophy and Policy.
David Schmidtz is Editor in Chief of Social Philosophy and Policy.
Jessica Flanigan is Associate Professor of Leadership Studies and Philosophy, Politics, and Economics at the University of Richmond. Her research addresses the ethics of public policy, medicine, and business. In Pharmaceutical Freedom (2017) she defends rights of self-medication. In Debating Sex Work (2019, with Lori Watson) she defends the decriminalization of sex work. Flanigan has also published in journals such as Philosophical Studies, Journal of Business Ethics, Leadership, Journal of Moral Philosophy, and Journal of Political Philosophy. She is currently writing a book about the ethics of pregnancy and a book about language and ethics.
Seth Lazar is Associate Professor and Head of the School of Philosophy at the Australian National University. He works in moral and political philosophy, with a particular focus on aspects of deontological ethics. He is the author of Sparing Civilians (2015), co-editor of The Morality of Defensive War (2014, with C. Fabre), and co-editor of Oxford Handbook of Ethics of War (2018, with Helen Frowe). His articles are published in journals such as Ethics, Philosophy and Public Affairs, Nous, Philosophical Quarterly, and Philosophical Studies. His current project, “Duty under Doubt” focuses on deontological decision-making with imperfect information.
Victor Tadros is Professor of Criminal Law and Legal Theory at the University of Warwick. He has written extensively on the philosophy of criminal law, just war theory, and on a range of issues in moral, legal, and political philosophy. He is the author of Criminal Responsibility (2005), The Ends of Harm: The Moral Foundations of Criminal Law (2011), and Wrongs and Crimes (2016). He has completed a three year Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship to work on just war theory entitled To Do, To Die, To Reason Why, and is currently writing a book with that title for Oxford University Press. Professor Tadros was recently made a Fellow of the British Academy.
Chandran Kukathas is the Lee Kong Chian Chair in Political Science and the Dean of the School of Social Sciences at Singapore Management University. He is a noted author on liberalism, multiculturalism, and diversity. His books include The Liberal Archipelago: A Theory of Diversity and Freedom (2003), Rawls: A Theory of Justice and Its Critics (1990, with Philip Pettit), and Hayek and Modern Liberalism (1989). Professor Kukathas was previously the holder of the Chair of Political Theory in the Department of Government at the London School of Economics. He has taught at the University of New South Wales (at the Australian Defense Force Academy), Oxford University, the Australian National University, and the University of Utah. He has been a visiting professor at George Mason University, Tulane University, Bowling Green State University, and the National University of Singapore.
Ian Carter is Professor of Political Philosophy at the University of Pavia, Italy. His research interests include the concepts of freedom, rights, respect for persons, basic equality, and distributive justice. He is the author of A Measure of Freedom (1999) and La libertà eguale (2005). He is co-editor of Freedom: A Philosophical Anthology (2007, with Matthew Kramer and Hillel Steiner), and Hillel Steiner and the Anatomy of Justice (2009, with Matthew Kramer and Stephen de Wijze). His most recent articles are published in Ethics, Journal of Political Philosophy, Economics and Philosophy, Journal of Applied Philosophy, and Oxford Studies in Political Philosophy.
John Thrasher is Assistant Professor in the Philosophy Department and the Smith Institute for Political Economy and Philosophy at Chapman University. He is also Adjunct Senior Research Fellow at Monash University. He is the author, with Dan Halliday, of The Ethics of Capitalism (forthcoming). His work has also been published in the journals American Journal of Political Science, Nature Communications, Philosophical Studies, Journal of Politics, Synthese, Human Nature, Journal of Moral Philosophy, Political Studies, Behavioral and Brain Sciences, Biology and Philosophy, Social Philosophy and Policy, Ethical Theory and Moral Practice, European Journal of Philosophy, Adam Smith Review, and several edited volumes. Professor Thrasher’s research focuses on the relation of individual practical rationality to social rules as well as the way those rules are organized into systems of norms and institutions. He is especially interested in how recent work in moral psychology and experimental economics can inform our understanding of how to improve our institutions of self-governance.
Alejandra Mancilla is Associate Professor in Practical Philosophy in the Department of Philosophy, Classics, History of Art and Ideas (IFIKK), at the University of Oslo. Currently, she has two main research interests. First, she is investigating the normative grounds of claims over land and natural resources, and is leading a three-year research project financed by the Research Council of Norway, entitled “Political Philosophy Looks to Antarctica.” Second, she is interested in the moral justification of basic human rights. She is author of the book The Right of Necessity: Moral Cosmopolitanism and Global Poverty (2016). Her academic articles have appeared in Journal of Political Philosophy, Journal of Applied Ethics, CRISPP, and Grotiana, among others. She is a member of the Territory and Justice Network, UK Political Studies Association Politics of Property Specialist Group, and the Humanities and Social Sciences Expert Group (HASSEG) of the Scientific Committee for Antarctic Research (SCAR).
Ann E. Cudd is Professor of Philosophy, Provost, and Senior Vice Chancellor at the University of Pittsburgh. Cudd’s philosophical interests include social and political philosophy, philosophy of economics, philosophy of social science, decision theory, and feminist theory. Her research has long focused on themes of oppression, economic inequality, and gender. Her book publications include: Analyzing Oppression (2006), Capitalism, For and Against: A Philosophical Debate (2011, coauthored with Nancy Holmstrom), and four edited volumes on themes ranging from backlash to feminism to contemporary democracy. She has published over fifty articles and book chapters. Recent work concerns contractarian political philosophy, conceptions of domestic violence in international law, and the injustice of educational inequality.
Daniel C. Russell is Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Arizona. His background is in ancient philosophy, and his work focuses on how individuals and groups find ways to improve the quality of life. He is the author of the books Happiness for Humans (2012), Practical Intelligence and the Virtues (2009), Plato on Pleasure and the Good Life (2005), and is the editor of The Cambridge Companion to Virtue Ethics (2013). He has also published a number of chapters in edited collections, and articles in Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy, American Philosophical Quarterly, and the Journal of the History of Philosophy, among other journals.
Dan Moller is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Maryland. He is the author of the book Governing Least: A New England Libertarianism (2019), and his articles are published in such journals as Philosophy and Economics, Journal of Practical Ethics, and Journal of Moral Philosophy. His research is focused on moral and political philosophy, and occasionally on art and religion, and his writings have explored, among other things, the topics of love, death, emotions, global justice, and the boring.
Amanda R. Greene is Lecturer in Philosophy at the University College London. Her research focuses broadly on political and legal philosophy, ethics, and ancient philosophy; more specifically, her work explores political legitimacy and democracy, global civil society, and law and freedom in Plato’s later writings. Her articles appear in journals such as European Journal of Philosophy, Oxford Studies in Political Philosophy, Modern Law Review, Analyse & Kritik, and Nomos.
Johan Olsthoorn is Assistant Professor in Political Theory at the University of Amsterdam, and Postdoctoral Research Fellow of the Research Foundation (FWO)-Flanders at KU Leuven, Institute of Philosophy (2015-2021). He works primarily on theories of rights, justice, and property, from both historical and contemporary angles. His research has been published in Journal of the History of Philosophy, European Journal of Political Theory, History of Political Thought, and British Journal for the History of Philosophy, among other venues.
Ben Bryan is Lecturer in the Philosophy Department at the University of Nevada, Reno. His research centers on foundational moral questions about politics, especially questions about rights. His work has been published in Australasian Journal of Philosophy, Social Theory and Practice, History of Philosophy Quarterly, and Philosophia.
