David Schmidtz is Editor of Social Philosophy and Policy.
Christopher J. Berry is Professor Emeritus of Political Theory, and Honorary Professorial Research Fellow at the University of Glasgow. He works at the interface between politics, history, and philosophy, and is the author of numerous books and articles, especially on aspects of the Scottish Enlightenment. Included among his publications are the books The Idea of Commercial Society in the Scottish Enlightenment (2013), David Hume (2009), and Social Theory of the Scottish Enlightenment (1997). He is a co-editor of the Oxford Handbook of Adam Smith (with Maria Pia Paganelli and Craig Smith, 2013), and his articles appear in journals such as History of Political Economy, European Journal of Political Theory, and British Journal for the History of Philosophy. He is an elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.
Richard Boyd is Associate Professor of Government and Director of the Tocqueville Forum for Political Understanding at Georgetown University. He is the author of Uncivil Society: The Perils of Pluralism and the Making of Modern Liberalism (2004); co-editor of Tocqueville and the Frontiers of Democracy (2013); and editor of the Cambridge Companion to Democracy in America (forthcoming, 2020). He has published more than forty journal articles and book chapters on thinkers and themes in the classical liberal tradition, social and economic theory, and the history of economic thought. Before taking his position at Georgetown University in 2007, Boyd taught at the University of Chicago, University of Pennsylvania, University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Deep Springs College.
Michael B. Gill is Chair in Philosophy at the University of Edinburgh. He is the author of Humean Moral Pluralism (2014) and The British Moralists on Human Nature and the Birth of Secular Ethics (2006), and has published widely in journals such as the British Journal for the History of Philosophy, Journal of the History of Philosophy, Hume Studies, Analysis, and Journal of Applied Philosophy. His writing explores themes in the history of ethics, contemporary ethical theory, and medical ethics, and he teaches a wide range of classes in moral philosophy.
Natalie Gold is Senior Research Fellow in Philosophy at the University of Oxford and a Principal Behavioral Insights Advisor at Public Health England. Prior to going to Oxford, she was Senior Research Fellow at King’s College London, where she was Principal Investigator on the project “Self-Control and the Person: An Inter-Disciplinary Account,” funded by the European Research Council. Since 2015, Dr. Gold has also been an Associate at the Political Economy of Financial Markets program (PEFM) in St. Anthony’s College, Oxford University. She has published on topics including: framing, moral judgments and decision-making, cooperation and coordination, trust, self-control, nudge, health improvement, and financial regulation, in journals such as Economics and Philosophy, Politics, Philosophy, and Economics, and Behavioral and Brain Sciences.
Shaun P. Hargreaves Heap is Professor of Political Economy at King’s College London. His research is in macroeconomics, philosophy, and game theory and it has concentrated in the last decade on studying individual decision-making with the use of laboratory experiments. In particular, it has focused on the social and cultural influences on decision-making in social dilemmas. His books include Rationality in Economics (1989) and Game Theory: A Critical Introduction (with Yanis Varoufakis, 2004). His recent experimental work has been published in the American Economic Review, Econometrica, and Economic Journal.
Leonidas Montes is Director of Centro de Estudios Públicos and Adam Smith Professor of Economics at Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez. He is the author of Adam Smith in Context (2003), editor of New Voices on Adam Smith (2009, with Eric Schliesser), and has published articles and book chapters on Adam Smith, with a special emphasis on the Scottish Enlightenment. Montes was Chairman of the Board of Televisión Nacional de Chile (TVN) and Dean of the School of Government, Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez (2008–2014), and is currently a member of the Board of the International Adam Smith Society (IASS).
James A. Harris is Professor Emeritus of the History of Philosophy at the University of St. Andrews, where he has taught since 2004. He is the author of Hume: An Intellectual Biography (2015) and Of Liberty and Necessity: The Free Will Debate in Eighteenth-Century British Philosophy (2005). He has published articles on Hume, Hutcheson, Reid, Beattie, and Priestley, and on a number of themes in eighteenth-century British philosophy. He is the editor of The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy in Eighteenth-Century Britain (2013), and also of Volume One of Scottish Philosophy in the Age of Enlightenment (2015, with Aaron Garrett). He has edited texts by Reid (with Knud Haakonnsen), Beattie, Kames, and Abraham Tucker. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.
Maria Pia Paganelli is Associate Professor of Economics at Trinity University. She works on Adam Smith, David Hume, eighteenth-century monetary theories, and the links between the Scottish Enlightenment and behavioral economics. She is co-editor of the Oxford Handbook on Adam Smith (2013), and served as the Vice President of the History of Economic Society and the book review editor for the Journal of the History of Economic Thought.
James R. Otteson is John T. Ryan, Jr. Professor of Business Ethics in the Mendoza College of Business at the University of Notre Dame. He specializes in British moral theory, political economy, and business ethics. His books include Adam Smith’s Marketplace of Life (2002), Actual Ethics (2006), Adam Smith (2013), The End of Socialism (2014), and Honorable Business: A Framework for Business in a Just and Humane Society (2019).
Margaret Schabas is Professor of Philosophy at the University of British Columbia. Her primary field of research is the history and philosophy of economics. She has published over forty articles or book chapters, and four books. Best known are A World Ruled by Number (1990) and The Natural Origins of Economics (2005). She is currently completing a book on Hume’s economics (coauthored with Carl Wennerlind, 2020). Among her distinctions are a teaching award (York University), a Killam research award (University of British Columbia), and service as President of the History of Economics Society. She has delivered ten invited keynote lectures and currently serves on the editorial or advisory board of ten journals.
Timothy M. Costelloe is Professor of Philosophy at the College of William and Mary. His primary research and teaching interests are in aesthetics and history of philosophy, with particular emphasis on the modern period. He is the author of Aesthetics and Morals in the Philosophy of David Hume (2007), The British Aesthetic Tradition: From Shaftesbury to Wittgenstein (2013), The Imagination in Hume’s Philosophy: The Canvas of the Mind (2018), and editor of The Sublime: From Antiquity to the Present (2012). His work has appeared in a variety of collections and journals, including Hume Studies, Journal of the History of Philosophy, and History of Philosophy Quarterly.
Loren Lomasky is Cory Professor of Political Philosophy, Policy, and Law at the University of Virginia. He previously taught at Bowling Green State University and the University of Minnesota, Duluth and has held visiting positions at Virginia Polytechnic Institute, Australian National University, the Australian Defense Force Academy, and Georgetown University. Lomasky is the author of Persons, Rights and the Moral Community (1987), for which he was awarded the 1990 Matchette Prize (best philosophy book published during the preceding two years by an author under age forty). He has also published Democracy and Decision: The Pure Theory of Electoral Preference (1993, with Geoffrey Brennan); Justice at a Distance (2017, with Fernando Tesón); and Rights Angles (2017). He works primarily in ethics, political philosophy, philosophy of gastronomy, and bioethics.
