David Schmidtz is Editor of Social Philosophy & Policy.
Nigel Pleasants is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy and Sociology at the University of Exeter, UK. He has wide-ranging interests in social, moral, and political philosophy. He is author of Wittgenstein and the Idea of a Critical Social Theory: A Critique of Giddens, Habermas, and Bhaskar (1999), and coeditor of Marx and Wittgenstein: Knowledge, Morality, and Politics (2002; with Gavin Kitching) and Philosophical Perspectives on Moral Certainty (2023; with Cecilie Eriksen, Julia Hermann, and Neil O’Hara). His work has appeared in journals such as Inquiry, Journal of Social Philosophy, Philosophical Topics, Social Theory and Practice, Journal of Applied Philosophy, and Philosophy of the Social Sciences. His recent work has focused on philosophical issues arising from the history of slavery and abolition, the Holocaust and genocide, moral certainty, moral revolution, and moral progress.
Richard Arneson is Distinguished Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of California, San Diego, where he holds the Valtz Family Chair in Philosophy. His work focuses primarily on theories of social justice, but he also works in ethics, especially on the defense of act-consequentialist views, and on topics in applied ethics. His books include Prioritarianism (2022) and a forthcoming volume collecting his essays on distributive justice, Social Justice, Luck, and Well-Being: Essays on the Ethics of Distribution. He is currently completing his part of a book coauthored with Jason Brennan, Debating Capitalism and Socialism, for a Cambridge University Press For and Against Series.
Jeffrey Paul is Research Professor in the Social Philosophy and Policy Center in the John Chambers College of Business and Economics at West Virginia University. He was previously a Research Professor at the Center for the Philosophy of Freedom at the University of Arizona from 2013–2022 and is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at Bowling Green State University. He is a co-founder of the journal Social Philosophy & Policy and continues in the role as its Executive Editor. Professor Paul’s primary areas of research are moral and political philosophy, the history of political philosophy, and the history of political institutions. He has published extensively in academic journals on these topics and has also edited or coedited sixty published collections of scholarly articles on moral and political philosophy. His next book, Winning America’s Second Civil War, will be published in 2024.
Thomas Christiano is Professor of Philosophy and Law at the University of Arizona, and he is Head of the Philosophy Department. He has been a Laurence Rockefeller Visiting Faculty Fellow at the Princeton University Center for Human Values, a Visiting Fellow at All Souls College, Oxford, and a Fellow of the National Humanities Center. He is the author of The Constitution of Equality: Democratic Authority and Its Limits (2008) and The Rule of the Many (1996). He is Co-Editor-in-Chief of Politics, Philosophy, and Economics. He has published extensively in the areas of democratic theory, liberalism, distributive justice, philosophy of international law, and economic justice.
Joseph Heath is a Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Toronto. A fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and the Trudeau Foundation, he is the author of several academic and popular books. His recent book The Machinery of Government (2020) was awarded the Donner Canada Foundation Prize for Best Book on Public Policy. He is also the author of Enlightenment 2.0 (2014), which won the Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing in 2015.
Clare Chambers is Professor of Political Philosophy and a Fellow of Jesus College, University of Cambridge. She is also a Member of the Nuffield Council on Bioethics, Secretary of the Britain & Ireland Association for Political Thought, and Editor-in-Chief of the journal Res Publica. Prof. Chambers works on various issues in moral, social, and political philosophy, including a feminist critique of liberalism and liberal choice; social construction; norms about beauty and the body; multiculturalism, religion, and intervention; marriage; and regulating relationships. She is the author of Intact: A Defence of the Unmodified Body (2022); Against Marriage: An Egalitarian Defence of the Marriage-Free State (2017); Sex, Culture, and Justice: The Limits of Choice (2008); and Teach Yourself Political Philosophy: A Complete Introduction (2012; with Phil Parvin) as well as numerous articles and chapters on political philosophy, gender, and bioethics.
Kaveh Pourvand is a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Center for the Philosophy of Freedom, University of Arizona. His work has appeared in the Journal of Social Philosophy and the Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy. His current research focuses on self-governance, political realism, and the implications of complexity theory for our understanding of the state.
John Meadowcroft is Reader in Public Policy in the Department of Political Economy at King’s College London. His research applies the analytical framework of public choice theory and constitutional political economy to questions of politics and policy, investigating issues such as how far-right political organizations overcome the collective action problem inherent to all political activism, the ethical challenges of health care provision in an advanced democracy, and the causes of racial injustice in liberal democracies.
Stefanie Haeffele is a Senior Fellow for the F. A. Hayek Program for Advanced Study in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University. Dr. Haeffele’s work has examined post-disaster community recovery as well as the political economy of non- profit organizations, specifically focusing on organizations that attempt to provide affordable housing to the poor. She is the coauthor of Community Revival in the Wake of Disaster: Lessons in Local Entrepreneurship (2015; with Virgil Henry Storr and Laura E. Grube).
Virgil Henry Storr is Professor of Economics at George Mason University. Dr. Storr’s research focuses on the social and moral aspects of markets, the challenges of community recovery after disasters, how culture affects economic activity, and the social and economic history of the Bahamas. He is the author of Enterprising Slaves & Master Pirates: Understanding Economic Life in the Bahamas (2004) and Understanding the Culture of Markets (2012) and is the coauthor of Community Revival in the Wake of Disaster: Lessons in Local Entrepreneurship (2015; with Stefanie Haeffele and Laura E. Grube) and the coauthor of Do Markets Corrupt Our Morals? (2019; with Ginny Seung Choi).
Christine Sypnowich is Professor, Queen’s National Scholar, and Head of Philosophy at Queen’s University at Kingston, Canada. Her research interests center on questions of equality and well-being in political philosophy and the philosophy of law. Prof. Sypnowich is the author of Equality Renewed: Justice, Flourishing, and the Egalitarian Ideal (2017) and The Concept of Socialist Law (1990) as well as editor of The Egalitarian Conscience: Essays in Honour of G. A. Cohen (2006). She has co-edited Family Values and Social Justice (2018; with Andrée-Anne Cormier) and The Social Self (1995; with David Bakhurst). Her work has appeared in journals such as Philosophy Compass, Political Theory, Oxford Journal of Legal Studies, New Left Review, and Politics and Society. Her next book, G. A. Cohen: Liberty, Justice, and Equality, will be published in 2024, and she is working on two commissioned books projects, Why It’s OK to Be a Socialist and A Political Philosophy of Cultural Heritage.
Eric Mack is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at Tulane University. He is the author of John Locke (2009), Libertarianism (2018), and The Essential John Locke (2020) as well as editor of Auberon Herbert’s The Rights and Wrongs of Compulsion by the State and Other Essays (1978) and Herbert Spencer’s The Man versus the State (1982). He has published numerous essays in scholarly anthologies and journals such as Ethics, The Journal of Ethics, The Monist, Oxford Studies in Political Philosophy, Philosophical Studies, Philosophy & Public Affairs, and Social Philosophy & Policy. His work focuses on the foundations of natural rights theory, the nature and basis of property rights, economic justice, contractual rights, the limits of justifiable coercion and coercive institutions, the nature of law and spontaneous social and economic order, and the history of classical liberal and libertarian thinking.
