Berys Gaut (bng@st-andrews.ac.uk) is Professor of Philosophy at the University of St Andrews, Scotland. He has written numerous articles on creativity, aesthetics and the philosophy of film, and is the author of Art, Emotion and Ethics (OUP, 2007) and A Philosophy of Cinematic Art (CUP, 2010).
Mandi Astola (mandiastola@gmail.com) is PhD student at Eindhoven University of Technology. Her recent publications include ‘Mandevillian Virtues’ in Ethical Theory and Moral Practice (2021) and ‘Can Creativity Be a Collective Virtue: Insights for the ethics of innovation’ in Journal of Business Ethics (2021).
Hugh Desmond (www.hughdesmond.net) is a postdoctoral researcher at the Leibniz University of Hannover and Assistant Professor at the University of Antwerp. He received his PhD from the KU Leuven, and has held research and visiting positions at the Paris I-Sorbonne, KU Leuven, Princeton University, New York University, and the Hastings Center. His work centers on the philosophy and ethics of science, with particular emphasis on biology. His recent and forthcoming publications include Human Success: Evolutionary Origins and Ethical Implications (OUP, 2022) and ‘The Logic of Status Distrust’ (Social Epistemology, forthcoming).
Taylor Matthews (taylor.matthews@nottingham.ac.uk) is a PhD student at the University of Nottingham. His thesis investigates the relationship between intellectual character and epistemic vice. His research interests include epistemology, social and virtue epistemology, political philosophy, and the philosophy of technology.
Alessandra Tanesini (Tanesini@cardiff.ac.uk) is Professor of Philosophy at Cardiff University. Her latest book is The Mismeasure of the Self: A Study in Vice Epistemology (OUP, 2021).
Kathleen Murphy-Hollies (KLM276@student.bham.ac.uk) is a Philosophy PhD student at the University of Birmingham. Her research is on ethics, moral psychology and mental disorder.
Lani Watson (lani.watson@philosophy.ox.ac.uk) is a Research Fellow at the University of Oxford. Her research in epistemology focuses on questioning and curiosity and she has recently published The Right To Know: Epistemic Rights and Why We Need Them (Routledge 2021).
Anneli Jefferson (jeffersona1@cardiff.ac.uk) is lecturer in philosophy at Cardiff University. Her research focuses on issues surrounding moral agency and philosophy of psychology and psychiatry. She recently wrote a book entitled Are Mental Disorders Brain Disorders? (Routledge, 2022).
Katrina Sifferd (sifferdk@elmhurst.edu) is Professor and Chair of Philosophy at Elmhurst University, where she holds the Genevieve Staudt Endowed Chair. Her recent publications include Responsible Brains: Neuroscience, Law, and Human Culpability with Bill Hirstein and Tyler Fagan (MIT Press, 2018).
Kristján Kristjánsson (k.kristjansson@bham.ac.uk) is Professor of Character Education and Virtue Ethics, University of Birmingham. His publications include Virtuous Emotions (OUP, 2018) and Friendship for Virtue (OUP, 2022).
Jonathan Webber (webberj1@cardiff.ac.uk) is Professor of Philosophy at Cardiff University. His most recent books are Rethinking Existentialism (OUP, 2018) and From Personality to Virtue: Essays on the Philosophy of Character (coedited with Alberto Masala; OUP, 2016).
Carissa Phillips-Garrett (carissa.phillips-garrett@lmu.edu) is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Loyola Marymount University. Her recent publications include Why Aristotle's Virtuous Agent Won't Forgive (Springer, 2022) and ‘Completeness, Self-Sufficiency, and Intimacy in Seneca's Account of Friendship’ (Ancient Philosophy Today, 2021).
Panos Paris (parisp@cardiff.ac.uk) is Lecturer in Philosophy at Cardiff University and a Trustee of the British Society of Aesthetics. Panos works mainly in aesthetics and ethics. He has published articles on a variety of topics, including functional beauty, moral beauty, immoralism, ugliness, and ethical reflection through television series.
Nadine Elzein (nadine.elzein@warwick.ac.uk) is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Warwick. She works primarily on problems relating to free will, moral responsibility, and moral obligations. She has several recent publications on this theme, including ‘Undetermined Choices, Luck and the Enhancement Problem’ (Erkenntnis, 2021), ‘Deterrence & Self-Defence’ (The Monist, 2021), and ‘Determinism, ‘Ought’ Implies ‘Can’ & Moral Obligation’ (Dialectica, 2021)
Nicholas Shackel (shackeln@cardiff.ac.uk) is Professor of Philosophy at Cardiff University. His recent publications include ‘The Nothing from Infinity Paradox versus Plenitudinous Indeterminism’ (European Journal for the Philosophy of Science, Forthcoming) and ‘Constructing a Moorean ‘Open Question’ Argument: The Real Thought Move and the Real Objective’ (Grazer Philosophische Studien, 2021).
Cathy Mason (cm865@cam.ac.uk) is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in Philosophy at the University of Cambridge. She has written, among others, on Iris Murdoch, love and friendship. Her recent publications include ‘What's Bad About Friendship with Bad People’ (Canadian Journal of Philosophy, 2021) and ‘Hoping and Intending’ (Journal of the American Philosophical Association, 2021).