Anna Alexandrova is an Assistant Professor in Philosophy at the University of Missouri St. Louis. Her research focuses on the use of formal models for explanation and policy making in economics and also on the measurement of happiness and well-being. Her recent papers are appearing in Philosophy of Science, Philosophical Psychology, and the Journal of Economic Methodology.
John Bickle is Professor and Head of the Philosophy Department, Professor in the Neuroscience Graduate Program, and Director of the Undergraduate Neuroscience Program at the University of Cincinnati. His books include Understanding Scientific Reasoning (5th Edn, co-authored with Ronald Giere and Robert Mauldin) (Thomson 2005), Philosophy and Neuroscience: A Ruthlessly Reductive Account (Springer 2003), and Psychoneural Reduction: The New Wave (MIT Press, 1998). He is editor of the forthcoming volume, Oxford Handbook of Philosophy and Neuroscience (Oxford University Press). His research focuses on the nature and scope of scientific reductionism, the science of scientific research, and the cellular and molecular mechanisms of cognition and consciousness. Email: bicklejw@email.uc.edu.
Colin F. Camerer is the Robert Kirby Professor of Behavioral Economics at Caltech. He was elected a Fellow of the Econometric Society and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is the author of Behavioral Game Theory (Princeton University Press, 2003) and almost 100 scientific articles reporting experimental and field data that suggest how psychology and neuroscience can inform economic analysis. Contact information: HSS 228–77, Caltech, Pasadena CA 91125 USA.
Carl F. Craver is an Associate Professor in the Philosophy Department and the Philosophy-Neuroscience-Psychology Program at Washington University. He is the author of Explaining the Brain: Mechanisms and the Mosaic Unity of Neuroscience (Oxford University Press, 2007) and articles on topics in the history and philosophy of neuroscience and biology.
Glenn Harrison is the Richard T. Crotty Orange County Endowed Chair and Professor of Economics at the University of Central Florida. His recent books include Risk Aversion in Experiments (Emerald, 2008), edited with J. Cox; Field Experiments (JAI Press, 2005), edited with J. Carpenter and J. List; and Using Dynamic General Equilibrium Models for Policy Analysis (Elsevier, 2000), edited with S. Jensen, L. Pedersen and T. Rutherford. His research interests are experimental economics, environmental economics, development economics, and international trade policy. Glenn is a Pisces who loves red wine and his Swedish wife.
Julian Jamison is a Research Assistant Professor of Psychology at the University of Southern California, where he also affiliated with the Brain and Creativity Institute. He is trained as a game theorist and experimental economist. His research interests, in addition to well-being and neuroscience, include health decision-making, international policy, strategic irrationality, and the value of information. Email: julison@gmail.com.
Anthony Landreth is a postdoctoral researcher in neurobiology at UCLA in Alcino Silva's lab. His philosophical work focuses on topics in the theory of motivation, scientific explanation, neurosemantics and moral psychology. His empirical research is focused on genes related to remote memory. He is currently preparing a book on progress in neuroscience with John Bickle and Alcino Silva.
Kevin McCabe is Professor of economics, law, and neuroscience, and director of the Center for the Study of Neuroeconomics at George Mason University. Professor McCabe is also a founding officer and current board member of the Society for Neuroeconomics.
Andreas Ortmann is the Boston Consulting Group Professor and a Senior Researcher at CERGE-EI, a joint workplace of Charles University and the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic in Prague. His work has been published in American Psychologist, Ethics & Behavior, Behavioral and Brain Sciences, Journal of Economic Theory, International Journal of Game Theory, Management Science, Experimental Economics, and Rationality & Society, among others. An economist by training, his game-theoretic and experimental work addresses the origins and evolution of languages, moral sentiments, conventions, and organizations. More details are available at home.cerge-ei.cz/ortmann
Camillo Padoa Schioppa is Professor of Neurobiology at Washington University. He is a member of the Society for Neuroscience and the Society for Neuroeconomics. His research focuses on the cognitive and neuronal mechanisms of economic choice and on the neuronal representation of economic value. Email: camillo@alum.mit.edu
Steven R. Quartz is an Associate Professor in the Division of Humanities and Social Science and the Computation and Neural Systems Program at California Institute of Technology, where he also directs the Brain, Mind, and Society PhD program. His current research focus is on the neural basis of distributive justice.
Don Ross is Professor of Economics at the University of Cape Town and Professor of Economics and Professor of Philosophy at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. Recent books include Economic Theory and Cognitive Science: Microexplanation (MIT Press 2005), Everything Must Go: Metaphysics Naturalized (with J. Ladyman; Oxford University Press 2007) and Midbrain Mutiny: The Picoeconomics and Neuroeconomics of Disordered Gambling (with C. Sharp, R. Vuchinich and D. Spurrett). He works on the foundations of economic theory, the economics of addiction, philosophy of science, and African trade and industrial policy. Email: don.ross@uct.ac.za
Ariel Rubinstein is a Professor of Economics at Tel Aviv and New York Universities. Currently he is on leave from Tel Aviv and spends most of his time in the ‘University of Tel Aviv Cafés’. He works in the foundations of Economic Theory. He is also interested in issues of economic methodology. This brings him to explore the experimental methods used in modern Economics.
Burkhard C. Schipper is an assistant professor at the University ofCalifornia, Davis, Department of Economics. In his research he focuses on game theory, microeconomic theory, experimental economics and bounded rationality. He received a PhD in economics from the University of Bonn, Germany. Email: bcschipper@ucdavis.edu
Ran Spiegler is Professor of Economics at University College London. His current focus is on modelling bounded rationality in market contexts.
Nathaniel T. Wilcox is Professor of Economics at the University of Houston. His research interests are economic, political and cognitive science, experimental methods and applied econometrics.
