Susan Wolf is the Edna J. Koury Professor of Philosophy at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her work ranges widely over topics in moral philosophy and the philosophy of mind. Before moving to Chapel Hill, Wolf taught at Harvard University, the University of Maryland, and the Johns Hopkins University. She is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Philosophical Society, and is President of the Eastern Division of the American Philosophical Association for 2010–11. Her works include the classic articles “Moral Saints” (The Journal of Philosophy 1982) and “Sanity and the Metaphysics of Responsibility” (Responsibility, Character, and the Emotions, ed. F. D. Schoeman, Cambridge University Press, 1987), and a book on free will and moral responsibility, Freedom Within Reason (Oxford University Press, 1990).
Robert Adams, Distinguished Research Professor of Philosophy at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, works in ethical theory, metaphysics, philosophy of religion, and the history of modern philosophy. He has taught philosophy at the University of Michigan, UCLA, Yale, and Oxford. Among the main topics of Adams’s work has been the relation of religion to ethics, including theological responses to the problem of evil. His books include The Virtue of Faith (Oxford University Press, 1987), Leibniz: Determinist, Theist, Idealist (Oxford, 1994), and A Theory of Virtue (Oxford, 2006). Adams is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a Fellow of the British Academy.
Nomy Arpaly, Professor of Philosophy at Brown University, is interested in ethics, moral psychology, action theory, metaethics, and free will. She is the author of Merit, Meaning and Human Bondage (Princeton University Press, 2006) and Unprincipled Virtue: An Inquiry into Moral Agency (Oxford University Press, 2002). Her journal articles include the following: “How It Is Not Like Diabetes: Mental Disorders and the Moral Psychologist” (Nous 2007); “Which Autonomy” (Freedom and Determinism, eds. J. K. Campbell, M. O’Rourke, and D. Shier, MIT Press, 2004); “Moral Responsibility, Applied Ethics and Complex Theories of Autonomy” (James Taylor, Personal Autonomy, Cambridge University Press, 2004); “Moral Worth” (Journal of Philosophy, 2002); “On Acting Rationally Against One’s Best Judgment” (Ethics, 2000); and “Hamlet and the Utilitarians” (Philosophical Studies, 2000).
Jonathan Haidt is Professor of Psychology at the University of Virginia. His research examines the emotional basis of morality and the ways that morality varies across cultures. He has specialized in the emotions of moral disgust (which underlies much of the legal and social regulation of sexuality) and moral elevation (the entirely unstudied response to moral beauty). He is the author of The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom (Basic Books, 2006). In 2006–07, Haidt was the Laurance S. Rockefeller Visiting Professor for Distinguished Teaching at Princeton University. While there, he explored the role of moral motives in politics, the difficulties posed by moral diversity, and the techniques for reducing moralism and fostering civil discourse.
John Koethe is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy Emeritus at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. He teaches courses on the philosophy of language, the philosophy of mind, epistemology, and Wittgenstein. His research focuses on the philosophy of language, Wittgenstein, and epistemology. He also publishes poetry and essays on literary theory. Among his publications are Scepticism, Knowledge, and Forms of Reasoning (Cornell University Press, 2005), Poetry at One Remove: Essays (University of Michigan Press, 2000), The Continuity of Wittgenstein’s Thought (Cornell, 1996), “Stanley and Williamson on Knowing How” (The Journal of Philosophy 2002), “And They Ain’t Outside the Head Either,” (Synthese 1992), “Contrary Impulses: the Tension between Theory and Poetry” (Critical Inquiry 1992), and several books of poetry, including The Late Wisconsin Spring (Princeton University Press, 1984), the prize-winning Falling Water (HarperCollins, 1997), The Constructor (HarperCollins, 1999). North Point North: New and Selected Poems (HarperCollins, 2002), Sally’s Hair (HarperCollins, 2006), and Ninety-fifth Street (HarperCollins, 2009).
Stephen Macedo, formerly Director of the University Center for Human Values (2001–2009), is Laurance S. Rockefeller Professor of Politics and the University Center for Human Values. As founding director of Princeton’s Program in Law and Public Affairs (1999–2001), he chaired the Princeton Project on Universal Jurisdiction, helped formulate the Princeton Principles on Universal Jurisdiction, and edited Universal Jurisdiction: Inter national Courts and the Prosecution of Serious Crimes Under International Law (University of Pennsylvania, 2004). As vice president of the American Political Science Association he was first chair of its standing committee on Civic Education and Engagement and principal coauthor of Democracy at Risk: How Political Choices Undermine Citizen Participation, and What We Can Do About It (Brookings, 2005). His other books include Diversity and Distrust: Civic Education in a Multicultural Democracy (Harvard University Press, 2000); and Liberal Virtues: Citizenship, Virtue, and Community in Liberal Constitutionalism (Oxford University Press, 1990). He is coauthor and coeditor of American Constitutional Interpretation, with W. F. Murphy, J. E. Fleming, and S. A. Barber (Foundation Press, fourth edition 2008).