Russell Blackford is an Australian philosopher, legal scholar, and literary critic, based at the University of Newcastle, New South Wales. His books include Freedom of Religion and the Secular State (2012), Humanity Enhanced: Genetic Choice and the Challenge for Liberal Democracies (2014), and The Mystery of Moral Authority (2016). @Metamagician
Peter Boghossian is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Portland State University and an affiliated faculty member at Oregon Health Science University in the Division of General Internal Medicine. He is the author of A Manual for Creating Atheists. @peterboghossian
Stuart Brock received his PhD from Princeton University in 2002, previously taught at Western Washington University in the United States, and is an Associate Professor in the philosophy program at Victoria University in Wellington, New Zealand. He is currently Dean of Postgraduate Students in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, and has published work on fiction and metaphysics.
Damien Broderick holds a PhD in the literary theory of the sciences and the arts, and has written or edited some 70 books in several disciplines, including a number of prize‐winning novels. The Spike (1997, 2001) was the first general treatment of the Singularity. In 2008, he edited an original science anthology, Year Million, on the prospects of humankind in the remote future, and with Russell Blackford he co‐edited Intelligence Unbound: The Future of Uploaded and Machine Minds (2014).
Myisha Cherry is a PhD candidate in philosophy at the University of Illinois, Chicago. She is interested in the intersection of moral psychology and political philosophy. Cherry is also a blogger for the Huffington Post and host and producer of the UnMute Podcast, a podcast where philosophy and real‐world issues collide.
Karen Green is the author of The Woman of Reason (1995), Dummett: Philosophy of Language (2001), A History of Women’s Political Thought in Europe, 1400–1700 (with Jacqueline Broad, 2009), and A History of Women’s Political Thought in Europe, 1700–1800 (2014). During 2015 she was Rosanna and Charles Jaffin Founders’ Circle Member, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, and has an honorary appointment at The University of Melbourne.
Benj Hellie is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Toronto. He works on mind and language, within a “mathematized transcendental idealism” inspired by Rudolf Carnap. If his own research makes progress, it is in significant part by tugging on loose strands in David Lewis’s tightly‐knit system.
Frank Jackson is Emeritus Professor in the School of Philosophy at The Australian National University. His books include From Metaphysics to Ethics (1998), and Language, Names, and Information (2010).
Ward E. Jones teaches philosophy at Rhodes University, and is co‐editor of Philosophical Papers.
Richard Kamber is Professor of Philosophy at The College of New Jersey and President of the Association for Core Texts and Courses. He is the author of On Sartre (2000) and On Camus (2002). He has published articles on a variety of subjects, including aesthetics, existentialism, higher education, and the Holocaust.
Noretta Koertge is Professor Emeritus in History and Philosophy of Science at Indiana University and continues to teach undergraduate seminars in the Hutton Honors College. She is past editor of the journal Philosophy of Science and the New Dictionary of History of Science and a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
James Ladyman is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Bristol and co‐editor of Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics, with a PhD on the semantic approach to scientific theories and structural realism. He has been assistant, deputy and co‐editor of the British Journal for the Philosophy of Science and honorary secretary of the British Society for the Philosophy of Science. He is the author of Understanding Philosophy of Science, and (with Don Ross) Every Thing Must Go: Metaphysics Naturalized.
James A. Lindsay has a PhD in mathematics and is the author of God Doesn’t; We Do, Dot, Dot, Dot: Infinity Plus God Equals Folly, and Everybody is Wrong about God. @GodDoesnt
Christopher Norris is Distinguished Research Professor in Philosophy at Cardiff University. He is the author of more than thirty books about philosophy, critical theory, and the history of ideas. Among them are Quantum Theory and the Flight from Realism, Truth Matters: Realism, Anti‐realism and Response‐dependence, On Truth and Meaning, Platonism, Music and the Listener’s Share, and Philosophy Outside‐In: A Critique of Academic Reason.
Massimo Pigliucci is the K.D. Irani Professor of Philosophy at the City College of New York. His research interests include the philosophy of biology, the relationship between science and philosophy, and the concept of pseudoscience. He is also interested in Modern Stoicism. His writings can be found at platofootnote.org
Stefan Lorenz Sorgner teaches philosophy at John Cabot University in Rome, is director and co‐founder of the Beyond Humanism Network, Fellow at the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies, and Research Fellow at the Ewha Institute for the Humanities at Ewha Womans University in Seoul.
Daniel Stoljar is Professor of Philosophy at the Australian National University. He is the author of the books Physicalism (2010) and Ignorance and Imagination: The Epistemic Origin of the Problem of Consciousness (2006), as well as many articles in philosophy of mind and related topics. His latest book, Philosophical Progress, will appear in 2017.
Mark Walker is an associate professor in the Department of Philosophy at New Mexico State University where he holds the Richard L. Hedden Chair of Advanced Philosophical Studies. His first book, Happy‐People‐Pills for All (2013) argues for creating advanced pharmaceuticals to boost the happiness of the general population. His latest book, Free Money for All (2015), argues for an unconditional basic income guarantee of $10,000 for all US citizens.
Timothy Williamson is Wykeham Professor of Logic at the University of Oxford. He has also taught at Dublin, Edinburgh, MIT, Princeton, Michigan, Yale, the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Canterbury (New Zealand), and elsewhere. As well as logic, he works on epistemology, metaphysics, philosophy of language, and metaphilosophy. His books include Identity and Discrimination, Vagueness, Knowledge and its Limits, The Philosophy of Philosophy, Modal Logic as Metaphysics, and Tetralogue: I’m Right, You’re Wrong.
Jessica Wilson is an associate professor of philosophy at the University of Toronto, Scarborough and Regular Distinguished Visiting Professor at the University of Edinburgh. Her research focuses on metaphysics, especially on the metaphysics of science and mind, the epistemologies of skepticism, a priori deliberation, and necessity. She was awarded the Lebowitz Prize for excellence in philosophical thought by Phi Beta Kappa in conjunction with the American Philosophical Association.