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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2020

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BEN ALMASSI is Associate Professor of Philosophy and Affiliated Professor of Gender and Sexuality Studies at Governors State University, in University Park, Illinois, where he teaches courses in epistemology, feminist theory, logic, philosophy of science, political theory, and practical ethics. His recent publications include “Climate Change and the Need for Intergenerational Reparative Justice” (in Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics, 2017) and “Epistemic Injustice and Its Amelioration” (in Social Philosophy Today, 2018). (.)

TALIA MAE BETTCHER is Professor of Philosophy at California State University, Los Angeles. She has written numerous articles in trans philosophy, including “Evil Deceivers and Make‐Believers: Transphobic Violence and the Politics of Illusion,” “Trapped in the Wrong Theory: Rethinking Trans Oppression and Resistance,” and “When Selves Have Sex: What Trans Phenomenology Can Teach about Sexual Orientation.” ()

NOELIA BUENO‐GÓMEZ holds a PhD in philosophy from the University of Oviedo, Spain. She has worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the Slovak Academy of Sciences and in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Innsbruck. She is currently Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Oviedo. Her main research area is social and cultural philosophy, and her current research project is entitled “The Experience of Suffering: From the Mystic‐Ascetic Christian Tradition to the Techno‐Scientific Approach” (initially funded by the Austrian Science Fund). Her last publication is “Self‐management and Narrativity in Teresa of Avila's Work” (in Life Writing, 2018) ()

JANA CATTIEN is completing her PhD in gender studies at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. Her research interests are in critical theory, feminist philosophy, critical race theory, postcolonial theory, and political philosophy. She has published on issues in feminist epistemology in the Journal of International Women's Studies, and on feminism in popular culture in Feminist Theory. ()

CATHERINE CLUNE‐TAYLOR is Assistant Professor of Feminist Science and Technology Studies in the Department of Women's Studies at San Diego State University. She teaches and writes in the fields (and at the intersections) of feminist theory, philosophy of gender and sexuality, critical disability studies, and bioethics. She is at work on a book critically exploring the science, ethics, and biopolitics underwriting intersex management under the “Disorders of Sex Development” treatment model. She is president of the Canadian Society of Women in Philosophy (CSWIP) for 2018/2019. ()

JEFF ENGELHARDT is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. His work uses philosophy of mind and language to articulate aspects of social oppression. Representative publications include “False Double Consciousness” (in Journal of Applied Philosophy, 2018) and “Linguistic Labor and Its Division” (in Philosophical Studies, 2018). He's finishing a book on patriarchal and white‐supremacist systems of social interpretation and how to resist them. ()

ALLAUREN SAMANTHA FORBES is a doctoral candidate in philosophy at the University of Pennsylvania. Her research focuses on early modern philosophy and feminism; more specifically, her dissertation, entitled “Transformative Relations in Early Modern Philosophy,” examines works by early modern women philosophers on topics such as education, custom, friendship, and marriage. She received her MA in philosophy and honors BA in philosophy and psychology from Wilfrid Laurier University. ()

JIM JOSE is Professor of Politics in the Discipline of Economics, Politics and International Relations in the Newcastle Business School at the University of Newcastle in New South Wales, Australia. He is a co‐editor of two collections of essays, Reoccupying the Political: Transforming and Transgressing Political Science (forthcoming 2019) and Not So Strange Bedfellows: The Nexus of Politics and Religion in the 21st Century (2013); author of Biopolitics of the Subject: An Introduction to the Ideas of Michel Foucault (1998); and a contributor to Anarchists and Anarchist Thought: An Annotated Bibliography, edited by Paul Nursey‐Bray (1992). He has published numerous articles on political theory, feminist theory, and Australian politics and public policy. Further details can be found at https://www.newcastle.edu.au/profile/jim-jose#publications. ()

SHERILYN MACGREGOR, PhD, is Reader in Environmental Politics at the University of Manchester, UK. She is the editor of The Routledge Handbook of Gender and Environment (2017) and has written extensively on feminist green politics and ecofeminist theory. ()

BRIANA TOOLE received her PhD in philosophy from the University of Texas at Austin. Her doctoral research examines the tension between traditional epistemology and standpoint epistemology, and motivates standpoint epistemology as a theoretical framework necessary for understanding epistemic oppression. She is currently interested in investigating the conditions that allow for certain epistemological systems, like white supremacy or patriarchy, to survive and thrive. She is also the founder of the philosophy outreach program Corrupt the Youth. She is currently a postdoctoral fellow at Baruch College, CUNY. ()

ROSE TRAPPES is a doctoral candidate in philosophy at Bielefeld University in Germany. Her doctoral thesis develops the concept of individualization as it is used in behavioral ecology, based on her work within an interdisciplinary research center. Trappes's broader research goal is to combine philosophy of biology, feminist philosophy, and continental philosophy to develop a feminist ontology of biology. ()

VALERIE WILLIAMS is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Weber State University in Ogden, Utah. Her work lies primarily at the intersection of the history of philosophy, the history of political thought, and feminist philosophy. She is currently researching the role of the family (and particularly of mothers within the family) in early modern political philosophy. ()

JOANNA WILSON is a PhD candidate at the University of Manchester and the Sustainable Consumption Institute. Her doctoral thesis examines the workings of gender at the United Nations Climate Change Conferences, including discursive framings, performances of gender, and resistance movements to mainstream (masculinized) climate politics. Based on fieldwork at the conferences, including interviews and observation coupled with extensive textual and discourse analyses, she interrogates both the discursive framings of gender in climate politics and the political struggles involved in (re)producing specific framings of gender. More broadly, she is interested in the workings of gender in global (environmental) politics as well as the strategies, struggles, and successes of global feminist environmental movements. ()

PERRY ZURN is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at American University. He researches broadly in political philosophy, gender theory, and applied ethics, and contributes specifically to curiosity studies and critical prison studies. Zurn is the author of The Politics of Curiosity (under contract) and the co‐author of Curious Minds (under contract). He is also the co‐editor of Active Intolerance: Michel Foucault, the Prisons Information Group, and the Future of Abolition (2016), Carceral Notebooks 12 (2017), Curiosity Studies: A New Ecology of Knowledge (forthcoming), and Intolerable: Writings from Michel Foucault and the Prisons Information Group, 1970–1980 (forthcoming). ()