Notes on Contributors

Kristoffer Ahlstrom-Vij is a former Fulbright and Templeton Foundation Fellow, and currently senior lecturer in philosophy at the University of Kent, Canterbury. His research focuses on social epistemology and epistemic normativity, and has been published in, among other places, Noûs, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Episteme, Philosophical Quarterly, and Philosophical Studies.

Larry Alexander is the Warren Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of San Diego. He is the author or co-author of several books, the editor of several anthologies, and the author or co-author of over 220 published articles, essays, and book chapters on legal and moral philosophy, criminal law theory, and constitutional theory.

Ben Almassi is an assistant professor in the Division of Humanities and Social Sciences at Governors State University, Illinois, where he teaches practical and professional ethics, philosophy of science, and political philosophy. His recent publications in applied philosophy include "Medical Ghostwriting and Informed Consent" (2014) and "Climate Change, Epistemic Trust, and Expert Trustworthiness" (2012). He thanks the organizers of the 2011 Workshop on Climate Justice at the University of Alaska-Anchorage and 2012 Summer Symposium on Science Communication at Iowa State University, where several aspects of his contribution to this volume were first developed.

David Archard is professor of philosophy at Queen's University Belfast, having previously taught at the Universities of Ulster, St Andrews, and Lancaster. He is a past Honorary Chair of the Society for Applied Philosophy. His publications have addressed the philosophical issues of the child, family, and state, sexual consent, education, moral expertise, and the application of philosophy to public policy.

Richard Arneson has been a professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of California, San Diego since 1973. He has published extensively on a wide number of topics in ethics, political philosophy, and applied ethics. His current research interests include the relation between distributive justice and responsibility and forms of consequentialist morality that are responsive to standard objections.

Sameer Bajaj is a doctoral candidate in philosophy at the University of Arizona. He works primarily in political philosophy, metaethics, and the philosophy of law. His current research develops an account of democratic justice that gives a central role to both the ideal of public reason - which requires that political activity is mutually acceptable - and epistemic considerations - which concern democracy's ability to produce decisions that correspond to or track the procedure-independent truth about justice.

Samantha Besson is professor of public international law and European law at the University of Fribourg (Switzerland). Her research focus and publications interests lie in the philosophy of international law and human rights. She is the co-editor of The Philosophy of International Law (2010) and The Oxford Handbook on the Sources of International Law (forthcoming). She is currently completing a monograph entitled Human Rights as Law.

Michael Bishop is professor of philosophy at Florida State University. He has authored or co-authored articles on a wide range of issues in philosophy of science, ethics and epistemology. He is co-author, with J.D. Trout, of Epistemology and the Psychology of Human Judgment (2005). His most recent book, The Good Life: Unifying the Philosophy and Psychology of Well-Being (2015), builds an empirically grounded and philosophically reflective theory of wellbeing.

Emma Borg is a professor of philosophy at the University of Reading, UK. Her main research interests lie in philosophy of language (where she defends a position known as "minimal semantics") and philosophy of mind (where she is interested in issues around modularity, embodied/enactive cognition, mirror neurons, and animal cognition). She has published widely in these areas, including two monographs, Minimal Semantics (2004) and Pursuing Meaning (2012), and has held numerous research grants, including a Philip Leverhulme Prize award. Emma is currently Director of the Reading Centre for Cognition Research and an Associate Investigator at the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence in Cognition and Its Disorders.

Geoffrey Brennan is an economist by training who works increasingly at the interface between economics and political and moral philosophy. He is author of six books and over 250 articles and book chapters. He was a collaborator on two books, The Power to Tax and The Reason of Rules, with Nobel Laureate James Buchanan. His most recent book is co-authored with Nicholas Southwood, Lina Eriksson, and Bob Goodin, entitled Explaining Norms.

Kimberley Brownlee is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Warwick. Her research focuses on the ethics of sociability, social rights, social virtues, and freedom of association. She is the author of Conscience and Conviction: The Case for Civil Disobedience (2012) and co-editor of Disability and Disadvantage (2009).

Noël Carroll is distinguished professor of philosophy at City University of New York. He specializes in philosophy of art and aesthetics in the United States.

Monima Chadha is senior lecturer in philosophy at Monash University Australia. Her main research interests are in Buddhist philosophy of mind and Indian philosophy more generally. She has published extensively in journals such as Philosophy East and West, Phenomenology and Cognitive Sciences, and Asian Philosophy.

Thomas Christiano is professor of philosophy and law at the University of Arizona. He has written The Rule of the Many (1996) and The Constitution of Equality: Democratic Authority and Its Limits (2008). He has edited a number of books on political philosophy and written articles on the theory of democratic deliberation in large societies and on distributive justice and international institutions. He is co-editor of Politics, Philosophy and Economics.

C.A.J. (Tony) Coady is a prominent Australian philosopher well known for his writings on epistemology and on issues concerning political morality. He is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy, and was Boyce Gibson Professor of Philosophy at the University of Melbourne. His publications include Testimony: A Philosophical Study (1992), Morality and Political Violence (2008), and Messy Morality: The Challenge of Politics (2008). A current research project concerns the role of religion in politics.

David Coady is a senior lecturer in philosophy at the University of Tasmania, Australia. He has published on many topics in applied epistemology, including expertise, conspiracy theory, rumor, and the blogosphere. He is the editor of Conspiracy Theories: The Philosophical Debate (2006), the author of What To Believe Now: Applying Epistemology to Contemporary Issues (2012), and the co-author of The Climate Change Debate: An Epistemic and Ethical Enquiry (2013). He has also published on metaphysics, philosophy of law, police ethics, the ethics of horror films, and the ethics of cricket.

Finn Collin holds a PhD degree from University of California Berkeley (1978) and a DPhil degree from the University of Copenhagen (1985), where he is currently a professor of philosophy. His writings are mainly in the philosophy of science, focusing upon the social sciences and the humanities. Chief titles in English are Theory and Understanding (1985), Social Reality (1993), and Science Studies as Naturalized Philosophy (2011).

Richard Corry is a lecturer in philosophy at the University of Tasmania, Australia. He has published on numerous topics in the metaphysics of science and causation. He is author, with David Coady, of The Climate Change Debate: An Epistemic and Ethical Enquiry (2013), and editor, with Huw Price, of Causation, Physics, and the Constitution of Reality (2007). He has also published on ethics and on the philosophy of ESP.

Nancy Daukas is a professor of philosophy and contributing faculty in Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Guilford College in Greensboro, North Carolina, USA. Publications include Epistemic Trust and Social Location (2006) and Altogether Now: A Virtue-Theoretic Approach to Pluralism in Feminist Epistemology (2011).

David Davies is professor of philosophy at McGill University. He is the author of Art as Performance (2004), Aesthetics and Literature (2007), and Philosophy of the Performing Arts (2011); editor of The Thin Red Line (2008); and co-editor of Blade Runner (2015). He has published widely on philosophical issues relating to film, photography, performance, music, literature, and visual art, and on issues in metaphysics, philosophy of mind, and philosophy of language.

Michelle Madden Dempsey (JD, LLM, DPhil) is a professor of law at Villanova University School of Law in Pennsylvania, USA, and was tutorial fellow and CUF lecturer in law at the University of Oxford (2006-2009). She is an associate editor of Criminal Law and Philosophy, member of the American Law Institute, former Chair of...