Thomas C. Anderson is a retired Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where he also served as chair. He is the author of The Foundation and Structure of Sartrean Ethics (1979), Sartre’s Two Ethics: From Authenticity to Integral Humanity (1993) and A Commentary on Gabriel Marcel’s “The Mystery of Being” (2006), as well as many articles on Sartre, Marcel and Søren Kierkegaard. He is past president of the American Catholic Philosophical Association, and was the founder and first president of the Gabriel Marcel Society in North America.
Thomas W. Busch is Professor of Philosophy at Villanova University, and is a leading scholar in existentialism. Aside from numerous journal articles in the field, representative books include Circulating Being: From Embodiment to Incorporation: Essays on Late Existentialism (1999), The Power of Consciousness and the Force of Circumstances in Sartre’s Philosophy (1990), and Merleau-Ponty, Hermeneutics and Postmodernism (edited with Shaun Gallagher, 1992).
Betty Cannon is Adjunct Professor at Naropa University and Professor Emerita of the Colorado School of Mines, where she taught literature and psychology for twenty years. She is the author of Sartre and Psychoanalysis (1991), and numerous chapters and articles on existential therapy. She is a member of the editorial boards for three professional journals: Sartre Studies International, Review of Existential Psychology and Psychiatry, and Existential Analysis.
Peter Caws is University Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at The George Washington University in Washington, DC. His eight books and more than 150 articles include work on the philosophy of the natural sciences, on ethics and continental philosophy (Sartre and the structuralists), and more recently on psychoanalysis and the human sciences. His books include Religious Upbringing and the Costs of Freedom: Personal and Philosophical Essays (co-edited with Stefani Jones, 2010), Structuralism: A Philosophy for the Human Sciences (1997), and Sartre (1979, 1984).
Steven Churchill has lectured in the Melbourne School of Continental Philosophy, including on Jean-Paul Sartre’s philosophy and literature. He has also served as tutor in Philosophy at La Trobe University, and is writing a PhD on Sartre and Flaubert.
Gary Cox is an honorary research fellow at the University of Birmingham, and the author of several books on Sartre, existentialism and general philosophy, including The Sartre Dictionary (2008), How to Be an Existentialist (2009) and The God Confusion (2013).
Paul Crittenden is an Emeritus Professor of Philosophy in the School of Philosophical and Historical Inquiry at the University of Sydney. He writes mainly on topics in ethics and epistemology, Greek philosophy, and modern European philosophy from Nietzsche to Sartre. Recent publications include Sartre in Search of an Ethics (2009) and Reason, Emotion and Will (2012).
David Detmer is a Professor of Philosophy at Purdue University Calumet. He is the author of Sartre Explained (2008), Challenging Postmodernism: Philosophy and the Politics of Truth (2003) and Freedom as a Value (1988). He is executive editor of Sartre Studies International and a past president of the North American Sartre Society.
Anthony Hatzimoysis is Associate Professor at the History and Philosophy of Science Department of the University of Athens. He is the author of The Philosophy of Sartre (Acumen, 2011), and editor of Philosophy and the Emotions (2003) and Self-Knowledge (2011).
Marguerite La Caze is Associate Professor in Philosophy at the University of Queensland. She has research interests and numerous publications in European and feminist philosophy. Her publications include The Analytic Imaginary (2002), Integrity and the Fragile Self (with Damian Cox and Michael Levine, 2003), Wonder and Generosity: Their Role in Ethics and Politics (forthcoming 2013) and articles in Contemporary Political Theory, Derrida Today, Hypatia, Parrhesia, Philosophy and Social Criticism, Philosophy Today, Political Theory, Simone de Beauvoir Studies, Symposium and other journals, and book collections, including on Jean-Paul Sartre, existentialism, Hannah Arendt, Simone de Beauvoir, Sigmund Freud and Michèle Le Dœuff.
William L. McBride is Arthur G. Hansen Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at Purdue University, and the president of the International Federation of Philosophical Societies (FISP), of which there 120 national and international member societies. He is also former president of the North American Society for Social Philosophy and co-founder and former director of the North American Sartre Society. He has authored, edited and co-edited nineteen books – among them Sartre’s Political Theory (1991), Social and Political Philosophy (1994) and Philosophical Reflections on the Changes in Eastern Europe (1999) – and published well over 100 journal articles and book chapters.
Christian Onof is Honorary Research Fellow in Philosophy at Birkbeck College, University of London. He has published on Kant’s ethics and metaphysics (Kant Studien, Kant Yearbook), on Heidegger and Sartre, as well as on the nature of consciousness (Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Journal of Mind and Behavior). He is co-founder of the journal Episteme, and on the editorial board of Kant Studies Online. He is reader at the Faculty of Engineering, Imperial College London.
Søren Overgaard is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Copenhagen. He is the author of Husserl and Heidegger on Being in the World (2004) and Wittgenstein and Other Minds (2007), co-author of An Introduction to Metaphilosophy (2013) and co-editor of The Routledge Companion to Phenomenology (2011).
Jack Reynolds is Associate Professor in Philosophy at La Trobe University and Deputy Dean of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences. He is author of Chronopathologies: Time and Politics in Deleuze, Derrida, Analytic Philosophy and Phenomenology (2012), Understanding Existentialism (2006) and Merleau-Ponty and Derrida: Intertwining Embodiment and Alterity (2004). He is also co-author of Analytic versus Continental: Arguments on the Methods and Value of Philosophy (2010), and co-editor of Continuum Companion to Existentialism (2011) and Merleau-Ponty: Key Concepts (2008).
Sarah Richmond is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at University College, London. Her primary research interest has been in recent French philosophy, especially phenomenology, existentialism and deconstruction and she has published several articles on Sartre’s early philosophy. Other interests include feminism and some questions within applied ethics. She is the co-editor of a collection of essays on the ethical implications of brain imaging, I Know What You’re Thinking (with Geraint Rees and Sarah J. L. Edwards, 2012).
Beata Stawarska is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Oregon. She has published numerous articles on Sartre’s relation to phenomenology and psychology, and on the applicability of his concepts to developments in contemporary cognitive sciences. These essays have been published in Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences, Sartre Studies International and International Journal for Interdisciplinary Studies. She is also an author of Between You and I: Dialogical Phenomenology (2009) and Saussure’s Philosophy of Language (forthcoming).
Adrian van den Hoven is Professor Emeritus at the University of Windsor, Ontario. He was a founding executive editor of Sartre Studies International and was twice elected president of the North American Sartre Society. He has translated Jean-Paul Sartre’s Truth and Existence (1992) and Jean-Paul Sartre/Benny Lévy’s Hope Now: The 1980 Interviews (1996) for the University of Chicago Press. He has also co-edited several publications on Sartre and Albert Camus and published articles on them, as well as on Simone de Beauvoir. Together with Ronald Aronson he has co-edited Jean-Paul Sartre: We Have Only This Life to Live, Selected Essays: 1939–1975 (2013).
Jonathan Webber is Reader in Philosophy at Cardiff University. He is the author of The Existentialism of Jean-Paul Sartre (2009), editor of Reading Sartre: on Phenomenology and Existentialism (2011), and translator of Sartre’s book The Imaginary (2004). He has published papers on moral psychology and virtue ethics in leading philosophy journals, including European Journal of Philosophy, Journal of Moral Philosophy, Mind and Philosophical Quarterly.