Anna Alexandrova is an Assistant Professor in the Philosophy Department of the University of Missouri St Louis. She works on the philosophy of economics and psychology. Her recent papers appeared in Philosophy of Science, Philosophical Psychology and the Journal of Philosophy of History.

Nabil I. Al-Najjar is a Professor of Managerial Economics and Decision Sciences, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University. His current research focuses on learning and decision theory. Email: al-najjar@northwestern.edu. Research page: http://www.kellogg.northwestern.edu/faculty/alnajjar/htm/index.htm

Pierluigi Barrotta is Professor of Philosophy of Science at the University of Pisa. He has co-edited with Marcelo Dascal Controversies and Subjectivity (John Benjamins Publishing Company, Amsterdam and Philadelphia, 2005). His latest book is Il liberalismo nell'età dei conflitti, with Sebastiano Bavetta (Macerata, 2008). His areas of interest include models of scientific rationality and the philosophy of economics. He is presently carrying out a research project on the epistemology of environmental science. Email: pl.barrotta@fls.unipi.it

Sebastiano Bavetta is Professor of Economics at the University of Palermo (Italy) and Research Associate at the London School of Economics (UK). His scientific interests focus on issues at the boundary between economics, philosophy and politics – in particular on the measurement of freedom and its impact on growth, the welfare state, policy and institutional design and on the optimal size of the state within a modern libertarian perspective.

Itzhak Gilboa is Professor of Economics at Tel-Aviv University and at HEC, Paris, and Fellow of the Cowles Foundation at Yale University. His main field of research is the theory of decision under uncertainty.

Matthias Klaes is Professor of Commerce at Keele University, where he teaches Philosophy of the Social Sciences, and Business Ethics. His current research focuses on the ambiguity of scientific concepts. Recent publications are “Keynes between Modernism and Post Modernism”, in Cambridge Companion to Keynes, 2006, “Rationality at Work: Reframing Social Framing”, in Galavotti, Scazzieri and Suppes (eds), Reasoning, Rationality and Probability, 2008.

Juan D. Moreno-Ternero is an Associate Professor of Economic Theory at Universidad de Málaga, a Visiting Professor at Universidad Pablo de Olavide (Seville) and a Research Associate at CORE, Université catholique de Louvain. He holds a PhD in Economics from the University of Alicante and was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Yale University and at CORE, Université catholique de Louvain. His research interests include welfare economics, political economy and health economics. He has published a number of articles on these topics in journals such as Econometrica, Health Economics, Social Choice and Welfare, Economics and Philosophy, Journal of Public Economic Theory, and Mathematical Social Sciences.

Sujoy Mukerji is a Professor of Economics at Oxford University and the Schroder Family Fellow of Economics at University College, Oxford. His research has primarily been on decision making under ambiguity, its foundations and its relevance in economic contexts. His broader research interests lie in the intersection of bounded rationality and economic theory. His recent papers include “The Smooth Model of Decision Making under Ambiguity”, Econometrica (2005), co-authored with P. Klibanoff and M. Marinacci.

Klaus Nehring is Professor of Economics Emeritus at the University of California, Davis. He is currently a Council Member of the Society for Social Choice and Welfare, and an Associate Editor of Mathematical Social Sciences. He has published widely on decision theory and social choice theory, rational decision making under uncertainty, incomplete preferences, interactive Bayesian rationality, and the theory of diversity. His current research interests include decision-making of agents with self-control problems, the measurement and valuation of opportunity and freedom of choice, judgment aggregation and group rationality. Email: kdnehring@ucdavis.edu

Andrew Postlewaite is the Harry P. Kamen Professor of Economics and Professor of Finance at the University of Pennsylvania. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. His current interests include extending the models of decision making used in economics and other fields.

Don Ross is Professor of Economics at the University of Cape Town, and Professor of Economics and of Philosophy at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. He is the author of numerous articles and several books, including Economic Theory and Normative Science: Microexplanation (MIT Press). He recently co-edited, with Harold Kincaid, The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Economics. His areas of research include the neuroeconomics and picoeconomics of impulsive consumption, and trade and industry policy in Africa.

David Schmeidler is Professor of Economics at the Ohio State University, and a Professor Emeritus at Tel-Aviv University. Over the past decades, his main field of research is the theory of decision under uncertainty.

Marciano Siniscalchi is Associate Professor of Economics at Northwestern University. His recent publications include “Vector Expected Utility and Attitudes toward Variation”, Econometrica, May 2009, and “Parental Guidance and Supervised Learning”, with Alessandro Lizzeri, Quarterly Journal of Economics, August 2008. His current focus is on decision and game theory.

Jonathan Weinstein is an Associate Professor of Managerial Economics and Decision Sciences, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University. His current research focuses on higher-order uncertainty and decision theory. Email: j-weinstein@kellogg.northwestern.edu. Research page: http://www.kellogg.northwestern.edu/faculty/weinstein/htm/index.htm