David Schmidtz is Editor in Chief of Social Philosophy and Policy.
Daniel Jacobson is Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Benson Center for the Study of Western Civilization at the University of Colorado, Boulder. He works on a range of topics in ethics, moral psychology, aesthetics, and the moral and political philosophy of J. S. Mill. He has published extensively on issues concerning sentimentalism, the philosophy of emotion, and freedom of speech. Jacobson was Project Leader of The Science of Ethics, a three-year project funded by the John Templeton Foundation. His essay, “Utilitarianism without Consequentialism: The Case of John Stuart Mill,” was chosen by The Philosophers’ Annual as one of the ten best philosophy articles published in 2008. Jacobson is co-editor (with Justin D’Arms) of the volume, Moral Psychology and Human Agency: Philosophical Essays on the Science of Ethics (2014). Jacobson and D’Arms are currently working on a collaborative book project, Rational Sentimentalism, and have published a series of articles developing their view.
Adam D. Moore is Professor of Philosophy in the Information School at the University of Washington. He specializes in information ethics (intellectual property, privacy, freedom of speech), philosophy of law, and political philosophy. Professor Moore is the author of Privacy Rights: Moral and Legal Foundations (2010), Intellectual Property and Information Control (2004), and the editor of Privacy, Security, and Accountability (2015), Information Ethics: Privacy, Property, and Power (2005), and Intellectual Property: Moral, Legal, and International Dilemmas (1997). He has written over forty articles that have appeared in journals such as American Philosophical Quarterly, Bioethics, Journal of Value Inquiry, Journal of Social Philosophy, and Journal of Ethics and Information Technology. Currently, Professor Moore is working on a new book entitled, Intellectual Property: Moral and Legal Foundations.
Andrew Koppelman is John Paul Stevens Professor of Law at Northwestern University, Professor (by courtesy) of Political Science, and Department of Philosophy Affiliated Faculty at Northwestern. His scholarship focuses on issues at the intersection of law and political philosophy. His latest books are The Tough Luck Constitution and the Assault on Health Care Reform (2013) and Defending American Religious Neutrality (2013). He has also published more than a hundred articles in books and scholarly journals. He is an occasional contributor to Salon.com and the Balkinization blog.
Frederick Schauer is a David and Mary Harrison Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of Virginia. A fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, Schauer is the author of several books, including Playing By the Rules: A Philosophical Examination of Rule-Based Decision-Making in Law and in Life (1991), Profiles, Probabilities, and Stereotypes (2003), Thinking Like a Lawyer: A New Introduction to Legal Reasoning (2009), and, most recently, The Force of Law (2015). He has written widely on freedom of expression, constitutional law and theory, evidence, legal reasoning, and the philosophy of law, and his articles are published in journals such as Ratio Juris, Law and Philosophy, Episteme, Harvard Law Review Forum, University of Chicago Law Review, New York University Law Review, and Yale Law Journal.
Keith E. Whittington is William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Politics at Princeton University. He has been a visiting professor at the University of Texas School of Law and at Harvard Law School. He is the author most recently of Speak Freely: Why Universities Must Defend Free Speech (2018) and of Repugnant Laws: Judicial Review of Acts of Congress from the Founding to the Present (2019). He is currently completing new book projects, including Constitutional Crises, Real and Imagined and The Idea of Democracy in America, from the American Revolution to the Gilded Age.
Andrew Jason Cohen is Professor of Philosophy and Founding Coordinator of the Bachelors of Interdisciplinary Studies Program in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics (PPE) at Georgia State University. He is the author of Toleration and Freedom from Harm: Liberalism Reconceived (2018) and Toleration (2014) as well as articles in journals like Ethics, The Canadian Journal of Philosophy, and in new reference works like The International Encyclopedia of Ethics and The Cambridge Companion to Liberalism. Increasingly, he is looking at toleration (or the lack thereof) in our system of criminal law, in business ethics, and in issues surrounding speech.
Molly Brigid McGrath is Associate Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Honors Program at Assumption University in Worcester, Massachusetts, where she has taught since 2006. Her scholarly work is in social ontology, political philosophy, Husserlian phenomenology, liberal education, and the history of philosophy. Her scholarship has appeared in numerous academic journals, including Husserl Studies, Society, New Yearbook for Phenomenology and Phenomenological Philosophy, International Journal of Philosophical Studies, and Studia Phaenomenologica. She has also written for more popular venues, such as The American Interest and Modern Age. She is currently working on a co-authored book, Corruption Talk with Robert G. Boatright. She especially enjoys writing philosophically minded movie reviews, which appear most often at Law and Liberty.
Teresa M. Bejan is Associate Professor of Political Theory and a Fellow of Oriel College at the University of Oxford. She is the author of Mere Civility: Disagreement and the Limits of Toleration (2017). She has also published many articles in edited volumes and academic journals, such as Political Theory, History of Political Thought, Review of Politics, and Journal of Politics. In addition, she writes regularly for popular publications, including The New York Times, The Atlantic, and The Washington Post. Dr. Bejan is also a popular radio and podcast guest, and her research has been featured on BBC radio, PBS, NPR, CBC radio, and Philosophy Bites, among others. In 2021, she will hold the Fulbright Visiting Research Chair in Constitutional and Political Theory at McGill University in Montreal, Canada.
Justin Tosi is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Texas Tech University. He specializes in social, political, moral, and legal philosophy, and writes mainly about state legitimacy, special obligations, and social morality. His work has appeared in Philosophy and Public Affairs, Legal Theory, Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, and other venues. He is the author of the book Grandstanding: The Use and Abuse of Moral Talk (2020, with Brandon Warmke) and is currently working on another book (also with Warmke) called Why It’s OK to Mind Your Own Business.
Brandon Warmke is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Bowling Green State University. He works in the areas of moral philosophy, moral psychology, and social philosophy, and has written extensively on forgiveness, moral responsibility, and public discourse. He has published in journals such as Philosophy and Public Affairs, Australasian Journal of Philosophy, Philosophical Studies, Canadian Journal of Philosophy, Journal of Moral Philosophy, and PLOS One. His work has been featured in The Atlantic, Scientific American, Vox, The Guardian, and HuffPost. His first book, Grandstanding: The Use and Abuse of Moral Talk (2020, with Justin Tosi), explores the ethics of public discourse.
Khalil M. Habib is Associate Professor of Politics at Hillsdale College. He received his undergraduate degree in political science from the University of Maine, his masters in political science from the University of Toronto, and his Ph.D. in philosophy from Boston University. He is coeditor of the The Soul of Statesmanship: Shakespeare on Nature, Virtue, and Political Wisdom (2018, with L. Joseph Hebert) and Cosmopolitanism in the Age of Globalization: Citizens Without States (2011, with Lee Trepanier), and has published articles in journals including Ramify, International Journal of the Humanities, and Political Science Reviewer. His research focuses on the history of political philosophy (broadly construed) and philosophical literature. He is interested in ancient and modern theories of republicanism and government, and how philosophical writers such as Shakespeare present politics and statesmanship.
Richard Sorabji is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at King’s College London. He is a Fellow of both the British Academy and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. His extensive and distinguished history of publication includes authorship of numerous books, including, among others, Moral Conscience through the Ages (2014), Perception, Conscience, and Will in Ancient Philosophy (2013), Gandhi and the Stoics: Modern Experiments on Ancient Values (2012), Emotion and Peace of Mind: From Stoic Agitation to Christian Temptation (2000), and a forthcoming book titled Freedom of Speech and Expression: Its History, Its Value, Its Good Use, and Its Misuse (2021). His principal articles are published in journals such as Phronesis, Southern Journal of Philosophy, Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy, American Philosophical Quarterly, and many edited collections. He is an honorary fellow of University of Oxford, Wolfson College, and was awarded a knightship by the Queen of England in 2014 for his groundbreaking contributions to philosophical scholarship.
Karim Nader is a third-year graduate student in Philosophy at the University of Texas at Austin. His research focuses on the ethics of information and technology, and issues at the intersection of ethics and aesthetics. He is specifically concerned about the ethics of virtual actions, on which he has published in Ethics and Information Technology. Nader is also interested in algorithmic bias and algorithmic decision-making, and the ways in which technology reflects and affects human values.
Jane R. Bambauer is Professor of Law at the James E. Rogers College of Law at the University of Arizona. Her research assesses the social costs and benefits of Big Data, and questions the wisdom of many popular and well-intentioned privacy laws and speech regulations. She holds a B.S. in mathematics from Yale College and a J.D. from Yale Law School. Her articles are published in Texas Law Review, Michigan Law Review, Stanford Law Review, and Harvard Journal of Law and Technology, among other outlets.
Saura Masconale is Assistant Professor and Director of Outreach at the University of Arizona Center for the Philosophy of Freedom. Her field of research encompasses the broad domain of “law and political economy,” which studies how the intersection of legal entitlements, political power, and economic forces affect society, with special emphasis on corporate relationships and corporate conflicts. Masconale holds a doctoral degree in law and economics from LUISS Guido Carli University (Rome) and a J.D. from University of Bologna. Prior to joining the Freedom Center at the University of Arizona, she taught at the University of Chicago Law School, the University of Notre Dame Law School, and the University of Arizona Program in Philosophy, Politics, Economics, and Law. Her publications appear in journals such as Emory Law Journal, Washington University Law Review, and Northwestern University Law Review.
Simone M. Sepe is Professor of Law at the James E. Rogers College of Law at the University of Arizona. His areas of expertise include business organizations, contract theory, law and economics, empirical methods, and jurisprudence. His main scholarship focuses on theoretical and empirical problems related to corporate governance, although he has recently expanded his research interest to the theory of institutions and political philosophy. This new strand of research includes group deliberation and the relationship between legal and moral rules in guiding individuals’ behaviors. Professor Sepe’s articles are published in journals including Journal of Financial Economics, Journal of Comparative Economics, Cornell Law Review, Stanford Law Review, and Minnesota Law Review. Before joining academia, he worked as a transaction lawyer in London and as an investment banker in London and New York.
