Jeffrey Bell is professor of philosophy at Southeastern Louisiana University. He is the author and editor of numerous books, including Philosophy at the Edge of Chaos: Gilles Deleuze and the Philosophy of Difference (Toronto, 2006), Deleuze’s Hume: Philosophy, Culture and the Scottish Enlightenment (Edinburgh, 2009), and, with Claire Colebrook, Deleuze and History (Edinburgh, 2009). In addition to working and writing on Deleuze, Bell has written articles and chapters on Spinoza, Whitehead, intellectual history, and Nietzsche. He is currently at work on a manuscript on metaphysics and the principle of sufficient reason.
Clare Carlisle is lecturer in philosophy of religion at King’s College London. She studied philosophy and theology at Trinity College, Cambridge, between 1995 and 2002. She is the author of three books on Kierkegaard, and the translator of Félix Ravaisson’s De l’habitude. Her next book, On Habit (Routledge), is forthcoming in 2014.
Edward S. Casey is distinguished professor of philosophy at SUNY, Stony Brook. A recent president of the American Philosophical Association, Eastern Division, he is the author of ten books. He has written copiously on the relation between body, memory, place, and habit in such books as Remembering, Getting Back into Place, and The Fate of Place. He recently published The World at a Glance. Forthcoming are The World on Edge and (with Mary Watkins) Up Against the Wall: Re-imagining the U.S.-Mexico Border.
Nick Crossley is professor of sociology at the University of Manchester (UK). He has published widely on issues of embodiment and habit. His latest book is Towards Relational Sociology (Routledge, 2011).
Dennis Des Chene is professor of philosophy at Washington University. He is the author of Physiologia (Cornell, 1996), Life’s Form (Cornell, 2000), and Spirits and Clocks (Cornell, 2001), and of articles on mechanism, Suárez, Régis, Bayle, and late Aristotelianism. In 2007 he was awarded fellowships by the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation and the American Philosophical Society. He is now working on seventeenth-century theories of emotion and on the history and philosophy of mathematics.
Peter S. Fosl is professor of philosophy at Transylvania University in Lexington, Kentucky, where he is chair of both the Philosophy and the PPE (Philosophy, Politics, and Economic) programs. Co-author of The Philosopher’s Toolkit with Julian Baggini (Wiley-Blackwell, 2011), Fosl’s articles on Hume, skepticism, philosophy of religion, and ethics have appeared in Hume Studies, Journal of the History of Philosophy, and 1650–1850. His essay on military suicide, “American Despair in a Time of Hope,” appears in the Fall 2012 issue of Salmagundi Magazine.
Adam Hutchinson is a PhD candidate in philosophy at Duquesne University. He works mainly in American pragmatism, the history of materialism, and critical theory (especially questions of race). Currently he is completing a manuscript on the body, materiality, and force in the writings of Newton, Kant, and Fichte.
David E. Leary is former co-director of the History and Theory of Psychology Graduate Program at the University of New Hampshire, where he also served as professor of psychology, history, and the humanities and chairperson of psychology. He is fellow and past president of the Society for the History of Psychology. From 1989 to 2002 he was Dean of Arts and Sciences at the University of Richmond, where he is currently university professor.
Thornton C. Lockwood is assistant professor of philosophy at Quinnipiac University. He has published articles on Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics and Politics in Phronesis, Journal of the History of Philosophy, History of Political Thought, Ancient Philosophy, and Oxford Bibliographies On-line. He is the associate editor (book reviews) at POLIS: The Journal of Ancient Greek Political Thought.
Terrance MacMullan is professor of philosophy and honors at Eastern Washington University. His essays on pragmatism, the philosophy of race, and the relationship between public intellectuals and democracy have been published in the Journal of Speculative Philosophy, Philosophy and Social Criticism, and Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society. His book The Habits of Whiteness: A Pragmatist Reconstruction was published by Indiana University Press in May 2009. He is currently researching a book on the affinities between pragmatism and Latin American philosophy.
Robert C. Miner is associate professor of philosophy in the Honors College at Baylor University. He is the author of Thomas Aquinas on the Passions: A Study of Summa Theologiae 1a2ae qq. 22–48 (Cambridge University Press, 2009), as well as articles on Nietzsche, Vico, Hobbes, Pascal, and Suárez.
Tom Sparrow teaches in the Department of Philosophy at Slippery Rock University, Pennsylvania, where he works primarily in continental and modern philosophy. He is the author of Levinas Unhinged (Zero Books, 2013) and The End of Phenomenology: Metaphysics and the New Realism (Edinburgh University Press, forthcoming).
William O. Stephens is professor of philosophy and classical and Near Eastern studies at Creighton University in Omaha, Nebraska. He has published articles on topics in Stoicism, Epicureanism, ecology and vegetarianism, ethics and animals, sex and love, and the concept of a person. His books include an English translation of Adolf Bonhöffer’s work The Ethics of the Stoic Epictetus (Peter Lang, 1996), the edited collection The Person: Readings in Human Nature (Prentice Hall, 2006), Stoic Ethics: Epictetus and Happiness as Freedom (Continuum, 2007), and Marcus Aurelius: A Guide for the Perplexed (Continuum, 2012). He is currently working on a manuscript titled Lessons in Liberation: Epictetus as Educator.
Shannon Sullivan is head of the Philosophy Department and professor of philosophy, women’s studies, and African American Studies at Penn State University. She teaches and writes at the intersections of feminist philosophy, critical philosophy of race, American pragmatism, and continental philosophy. She is author of Living Across and Through Skins: Transactional Bodies, Pragmatism and Feminism (Indiana, 2001) and Revealing Whiteness: The Unconscious Habits of Racial Privilege (Indiana, 2006). She is co-editor of Race and Epistemologies of Ignorance (SUNY, 2007), Difficulties of Ethical Life (Fordham, 2008), and Race Questions, Provincialism, and Other American Problems: Expanded Edition (Fordham, 2009). She is currently finishing a book on transforming whiteness.
Margaret Watkins is assistant professor of philosophy at Saint Vincent College in southwestern Pennsylvania. After graduating from the College of William and Mary, she earned her PhD in philosophy at the University of Notre Dame. Her research focuses on ethics and early modern philosophy, with a particular emphasis on the moral philosophy of David Hume. She has published several articles on the relationship between literature and philosophy, exploring the resources of Jane Austen’s novels for questions in ethics generally and virtue theory in particular. She is currently working on a book on Hume’s Essays Moral, Political, and Literary.