List of Contributors
Mark Balaguer is professor of philosophy at California State University, Los Angeles. He is the author of four books - Platonism and Anti-Platonism in Mathematics (Oxford University Press, 1998), Free Will as an Open Scientific Problem (MIT Press, 2010), Free Will (MIT Press, 2014), and Metaphysics, Sophistry, and Illusion: Toward a Widespread Non-Factualism (Oxford University Press, 2021). He has also published numerous articles on a wide range of philosophical topics in journals such as Mind, Nous, and Philosophy and Phenomenological Research.
Joseph Campbell is professor of philosophy in the School of Politics, Philosophy, and Public Affairs at Washington State University. He is co-founder of the Inland Northwest Philosophy Conference and has helped organize scores of philosophy conferences and public events. Professor Campbell has edited nine books as well as numerous papers for the Journal of Ethics, The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy, and Philosophical Studies. He is the recipient of the Marian E. Smith Faculty Achievement Award and the Honors Thesis Advisor Award.
Justin Capes is assistant professor of philosophy in the School of Humanities and Science at Flagler College and an Associate Editor for the Journal of Ethics. He writes on topics in moral philosophy and the philosophy of action, especially those having to do with free will and moral responsibility. His published work on these issues has appeared in journals such as Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Philosophical Studies, American Philosophical Quarterly, Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, Erkenntnis, Social Philosophy & Policy, among others. He is currently in the process of finishing a book defending the much-debated Principle of Alternative Possibilities.
Florian Cova is a visiting assistant professor at University Geneva, Switzerland. As an experimental philosopher, his research is at the intersection between philosophy and cognitive science and explores how we think about a multitude of philosophical issues: aesthetics, free will, intentional action, or morality. His current work investigates people's conceptions of the meaning of life and the role emotions play in our search for a meaningful life. He is the coeditor of Advances in Experimental Philosophy of Aesthetics and has published in journals including Consciousness & Cognition, Mind and Language, Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, Philosophical Psychology, Philosophical Studies and the infamous Asian Journal of Medicine and Health.
Oisín Deery is ARC DECRA fellow and lecturer in the Department of Philosophy at Macquarie University, Sydney, and assistant professor in the Department of Philosophy, York University, Toronto. His research is primarily in the philosophy of mind and action. He is currently working on issues in artificial intelligence, including ethical issues related to agency, for a three-year research project funded by the Australian Research Council (ARC). His monograph, Naturally Free Action, appeared in 2021 with Oxford University Press. In 2013, he published a coedited volume with Oxford University Press, The Philosophy of Free Will: Essential Readings from the Contemporary Debates. His articles have appeared in Philosophical Studies, Australasian Journal of Philosophy, Synthese, and Philosophical Psychology.
Laura W. Ekstrom is Francis S. Haserot Chancellor professor of philosophy at William & Mary. She is a graduate of Stanford University (B.A.) and the University of Arizona (PhD). Her books include God, Suffering, and the Value of Free Will (Oxford University Press, 2021) and Free Will: A Philosophical Study (Westview Press, 2000). Her articles on autonomy, moral responsibility, causation, chance, free will, compassion, and suffering have been published in academic journals including Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Synthese, The Journal of Medicine and Philosophy, American Philosophical Quarterly, Philosophical Studies, Midwest Studies in Philosophy, and Australasian Journal of Philosophy, as well as in edited collections published by Blackwell, Routledge, Oxford University Press, and Cambridge University Press.
Alicia Finch is associate professor of philosophy at Northern Illinois University. Her research has focused on the metaphysics of free will and moral responsibility, and she has taught courses in metaphysics, meta metaphysics, philosophy of religion, moral psychology, ancient philosophy, feminism, and the philosophy of race. Prior to joining NIU's faculty, she was a post-doctoral research fellow at the Notre Dame Center for Philosophy of Religion and assistant professor of philosophy at Saint Louis University. She received her B.A. in Philosophy and Political Science from the University of Missouri at Columbia, and her M.A. and PhD in Philosophy from the University of Notre Dame.
Meghan Griffith is professor of philosophy at Davidson College. She is interested in moral responsibility, free will, the metaphysics of agency, and other topics related to human action. She has published a number of journal articles and book chapters on these topics. She is the author of Free Will: The Basics, 2nd Edition (Routledge, 2022), and a co-editor of the Routledge Companion to Free Will (Routledge, 2017). Recent research focuses on the role our narrative capacities play in the development of morally responsible agency.
Ishtiyaque Haji is professor of philosophy at the University of Calgary. He has research interests in ethical theory, philosophy of action, metaphysics, and philosophical psychology. He is the author of Moral Appraisability (1998), Deontic Morality and Control (2002), (with Stefaan Cuypers) Moral Responsibility, Authenticity, and Education (2008), Freedom and Value (2009), Incompatibilism's Allure (2009), Reason's Debt to Freedom (2012), Luck's Mischief (2016), The Obligation Dilemma (2019), and Obligation and Responsibility (2023).
Robert J. Hartman is an assistant professor of philosophy at Ohio Northern University. He works mainly on agency and responsibility, character and virtue, and philosophy of religion. Currently, he is writing a monograph titled Character and Free Will. He is the author of In Defense of Moral Luck: Why Luck Often Affects Praiseworthiness and Blameworthiness (Routledge 2017) and co-editor of The Routledge Handbook of the Philosophy and Psychology of Luck (Routledge 2019). His work also appears in journals such as Australasian Journal of Philosophy, Erkenntnis, Faith and Philosophy, Journal of the American Philosophical Association, Philosophical Studies, and Thought.
Brian Leftow is William P Alston professor of the philosophy of religion and co-director of the Rutgers Center for Philosophy of Religion, Department of Philosophy, Rutgers University. He is also an Emeritus Fellow of Oriel College Oxford. He is the author of Anselm's Argument (OUP, 2022), God and Necessity (OUP 2012), Time and Eternity (Cornell, 1991), and well over 100 articles in philosophy of religion, metaphysics, and medieval philosophy. For 16 years he was Nolloth Professor of the Philosophy of the Christian Religion, Oxford University, and a Fellow of Oriel.
Neil Levy is professor of philosophy at Macquarie University, Sydney, and a Senior Research Fellow at the Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, University of Oxford. He is a wide-ranging philosopher, who has published books and articles on free will, social epistemology, applied ethics, philosophy of mind, and other topics. His major work on free will is Hard Luck: How Luck Undermines Free Will and Moral Responsibility (Oxford University Press, 2011).
Ken M. Levy is the Holt B. Harrison professor of law at LSU Law School in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. He teaches courses in criminal law and has published articles in several areas, including free will and responsibility, criminal theory, and constitutional law. He recently published a book entitled Free Will, Responsibility, and Crime: An Introduction (Routledge, 2020).
Kenji Lota is a graduate student in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Miami. Before coming to the University of Miami, he completed his master's degree in philosophy at Concordia University in Montreal. His research interests are in epistemology, philosophy of language, and philosophy of action. His current work explores different ways of understanding interrogative attitudes, the norms that govern those attitudes, and how it relates to free will and action. He has coauthored papers that will appear in Erkenntnis and Ergo.
Marilyn McCord Adams (1943-2017) spent the longest part of her career as a philosophy professor at the University of California-Los Angeles (1972-1993). She moved from there to the Divinity School at Yale, as professor of the history of Christian doctrine in the medieval and early modern periods (1993-2003). Crossing the ocean, she became the first woman to hold the post of Regius Professor of Divinity at Oxford University - the first woman to hold that historic post. Her major books were William Ockham, in two volumes (1987), Horrendous Evils and the Goodness of God (1999), Christ and Horrors: The Coherence of Christology (2006), and Some Later Medieval Theories of the...
