Notes on Contributors

Terence Ball is Emeritus Professor of Political Science and Philosophy at Arizona State University, to which he moved in 1998 after a long career at the University of Minnesota. He has held visiting appointments at Cambridge, Oxford, and the University of California, San Diego. He is the author of several books, including Transforming Political Discourse: Political Theory and Critical Conceptual History (1988), Reappraising Political Theory: Revisionist Studies in the History of Political Thought (1995), and a mystery novel, Rousseau's Ghost (1998). He is coeditor (with Richard Bellamy) of The Cambridge History of Twentieth-Century Political Thought and for the Cambridge Texts series has edited James Mill: Political Writings (1992), The Federalist (2003), Abraham Lincoln: Political Writings and Speeches (2013), and (with Joyce Appleby) Thomas Jefferson: Political Writings (1999).

David O. Brink is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, San Diego. His research interests are in ethical theory, history of ethics, moral psychology, and jurisprudence. He is author of Moral Realism and the Foundations of Ethics (Cambridge 1989), Perfectionism and the Common Good: Themes in the Philosophy of T.H. Green (Oxford 2003), and Mill's Progressive Principles (Oxford 2013).

D.G. Brown who sadly passed away just as this volume went to press, was Professor Emeritus at the University of British Columbia. He was a Fellow of Magdalen College Oxford 1952-1955, and taught the Philosophy Department in the University British Columbia 1955-1985. His last papers on Mill include "Mill's Moral Theory: Ongoing Revisionism" (Politics, Philosophy and Economics, 2010), and "Mill on the Harm in Not Voting" (Utilitas, 2010).

Nicholas Capaldi is Legendre-Soule Distinguished Chair in Business Ethics at Loyola University New Orleans. Among his numerous publications are two books on David Hume and the Cambridge University Press intellectual biography John Stuart Mill.

Samuel Clark is Lecturer in Philosophy at Lancaster University, UK. He works on the nature, conditions, and ethical significance of human well-being, and on the form and value of various kinds of literary text - utopias, dialogues, autobiographies - which investigate these issues. Within these broad concerns, he has written on anarchist utopianism, on John Stuart Mill, on the roles of pleasure in good lives, on friendship and comradeship in the lives of soldiers, on David Hume, and on work and human flourishing. He has published a book, Living Without Domination, and articles in journals including Res Publica, Philosophy, Inquiry, Ratio, Hume Studies, and The Journal of Applied Philosophy. He is currently writing a book about autobiography and well-being.

Aaron D. Cobb is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Auburn University at Montgomery. His research focuses primarily on nineteenth-century British philosophy of science and he has published journal articles on John F.W. Herschel, William Whewell, John Stuart Mill, and Michael Faraday.

Wendy Donner is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada. She is the author of two books on John Stuart Mill - Mill (with Richard Fumerton, Wiley-Blackwell, 2009) and The Liberal Self (Cornell, 1991). She has also published many articles on Mill, environmental ethics, feminist ethics, and Buddhist ethics.

Robert Devigne is Professor of Political Science at Tufts University. He is the author of Reforming Liberalism: J.S. Mill's Use of Ancient, Religious, Romantic and Liberal Moralities (2006) and Recasting Conservatism: Oakeshott, Strauss, and the Response to Postmodernism (1994), both published by Yale University Press.

Ben Eggleston is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Kansas. He is a coeditor, with Dale E. Miller, of The Cambridge Companion to Utilitarianism (Cambridge University Press, 2014), and a coeditor, with Dale E. Miller and David Weinstein, of John Stuart Mill and the Art of Life (Oxford University Press, 2011).

Graham Finlay is a lecturer in the School of Politics and International Relations, University College Dublin. Besides articles on Mill and education, he has published articles on Mill and power, toleration and empire. Other research interests include migration and human rights.

Guy Fletcher is Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Edinburgh. He is interested in metaethics and ethics, and their history, and political philosophy.

Richard Fumerton received his B.A. from the University of Toronto in 1971, his Ph.D. from Brown University in 1974, and is currently the F. Wendell Miller Professor of Philosophy at the University of Iowa. His research has focused mainly in epistemology, but he has also published books and articles on metaphysics, philosophy of mind, philosophy of science, value theory, and philosophy of law. He is the author of Metaphysical and Epistemological Problems of Perception (1985), Reason and Morality: A Defense of the Egocentric Perspective (1990), Metaepistemology and Skepticism (1996), Realism and the Correspondence Theory of Truth (2002), Epistemology (2006), Mill, co-authored with Wendy Donner (2009), and Knowledge, Thought and The Case for Dualism (2013).

Gerald Gaus is the James E. Rogers Professor of Philosophy at the University of Arizona, where he directs the program in Philosophy, Politics, Economics & Law. He is the author of a number of books, most recently The Order of Public Reason, published by Cambridge in 2011; with Piers Norris Tuner, he is co-editor of the forthcoming History of Public Reason in Political Philosophy (Routledge). His most recent book, the Tyranny of the Ideal: Justice in a Diverse Society, is forthcoming from Princeton University Press.

David Godden received his Ph.D from McMaster University in 2004. He is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Michigan State University, researching in epistemology and argumentation. His previous work on Mill includes "Psychologism in the logic of John Stuart Mill" in History and Philosophy of Logic (2005), and "Mill's System of Logic" in W.M. Mander's Oxford Handbook of British Philosophy in the Nineteenth Century (2014).

Vincent Guillin is currently Associate Professor at the Université du Québec à Montréal, where he teaches the history and philosophy of the human sciences and the history of modern philosophy. His publications focus on John Stuart Mill, Auguste Comte, the history of nineteenth-century moral sciences. Recently, his research interests have centered on the French reception of John Stuart Mill and the history and philosophy of experimental social engineering.

Don A. Habibi is professor of philosophy at the University of North Carolina Wilmington. He specializes in social and political philosophy, ethics, and philosophy of law.

Daniel Jacobson is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Michigan. He works on a range of topics in ethics, moral psychology, aesthetics, and the moral and political philosophy of J.S. Mill. His essay, "Utilitarianism Without Consequentialism: The Case of John Stuart Mill" was chosen by The Philosophers' Annual as one of the ten best philosophy articles published in 2008. He has published extensively on issues concerning sentimentalism, the relation between moral and aesthetic value, the philosophy of emotion, and freedom of speech.

Bruce Kinzer is Professor of History at Kenyon College (Ohio). Most of his scholarship has focused on J.S. Mill. He is the author of J.S. Mill Revisited: Biographical and Political Explorations (2007), England's Disgrace? J.S. Mill and the Irish Question (2001), and co-author, with Ann P. Robson and John M. Robson, of A Moralist In and Out of Parliament: John Stuart Mill at Westminster, 1865-1868 (1992). He joined John M. Robson in co-editing Mill's Public and Parliamentary Speeches, volumes 28-9 of Mill's Collected Works (1988). Apart from his contributions to Mill Studies, Kinzer has worked on various aspects of Victorian politics, editing The Gladstonian Turn of Mind: Essays Presented to J.B. Conacher (1985), and writing The Ballot Question in Nineteenth-Century English Politics (1982).

Frederick Kroon is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Auckland. His main research areas are formal and philosophical logic, philosophy of language, philosophy of science, and metaphysics, and he has authored papers in these and other areas for a range of journals, including the Australasian Journal of Philosophy, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, The Philosophical Review, The Journal of Philosophy, Ethics, and Noûs. His current research is mainly focused on the theory of reference and fictionalism. He is on the editorial board of the Australasian Journal of Philosophy and is a subject editor for Twentieth-Century Philosophy for the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.

Antis Loizides teaches at the Department of Social and Political Science, University of Cyprus....