J. McKenzie Alexander is a Reader in the Department of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method at the London School of Economics. His research interests concern evolutionary game theory, decision theory, and the philosophy of social science. He is the author of The Structural Evolution of Morality (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming in 2007).
Matthew Braham received his Ph.D. from the Faculty of Economics, University of Hamburg in 2004. He currently holds a post-doctoral research post in the Economics Faculty. He has also held the Adam Smith Guest Professorship in Philosophy and Economics at University of Bayreuth, Germany. His research focus is on the methodological and philosophical issues of the measurement of power and freedom. Among his recent publications are `The Impossibility of a Preference-based Power Index' (with Manfred J. Holler), Journal of Theoretical Politics 17 (2005) and ‘The Chairman's Paradox Revisited’, Social Choice and Welfare (forthcoming 2006).
Alexander Cappelen is Associate Professor in Economics and Head of the Center for Ethics and Economics at the Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration in Bergen, Norway. He is also a Senior Researcher at the Bank of Norway. His primary research fields are normative economics, public economics, and political philosophy. He can be contacted at alexander.cappelen@nhh.no.
Till Grüne-Yanoff is a post-doctoral research fellow at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm. He received his Ph.D. in philosophy from the London School of Economics. Having published articles and encyclopaedia entries on philosophy of economics and decision theory, his current research focuses on causal decision theory and preference change.
Francesco Guala is a Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Exeter (UK). He is interested mainly in philosophical problems arising from scientific practice. He is the author of The Methodology of Experimental Economics (Cambridge University Press, 2005) and of several articles in international journals. He is currently investigating experimentally the normative character of social conventions, as part of a broader project on “Empirical Social Ontology”.
David McCarthy is a Reader in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Edinburgh.
Christoph Schmidt-Petri is the Managing Editor of Economics and Philosophy. He has published articles in The Philosophical Quarterly, Philosophy of Science, and Analyse & Kritik. A volume on degrees of belief, co-edited with Franz Huber, is forthcoming, as is an interview book on the philosophy of social science (with Diego Rios).
Leah McClimans is a graduate student at the London School of Economics. This year she will complete a thesis on the methodology of quality of life assessment in the medical sciences. Leah is an American and a union member, seeking fitting and well-paid work for all.
Robert Sugden is Professor of Economics at the University of East Anglia, Norwich. His research uses a combination of theoretical, experimental, and philosophical methods to investigate issues in welfare economics, social choice, choice under uncertainty, the foundations of decision and game theory, the methodology of economics, and the evolution of social conventions.
Bertil Tungodden is Professor in Economics at the Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration and associated researcher at the Chr. Michelsen Institute in Bergen, Norway. His primary research fields are normative economics, political philosophy, and development economics. He can be contacted at bertil.tungodden@nhh.no.
Jonathan Wolff is Professor of Philosophy at University College London. He is the author of Robert Nozick (1991), An Introduction to Political Philosophy (1996), Why Read Marx Today? (2002) and, with Avner de-Shalit, Disadvantage (forthcoming 2007). He is currently working on a number of issues connecting risk, regulation, and social justice.
Rafael Ziegler is a Ph.D. candidate in Philosophy at McGill University. In 2005-06 he is a pre-doctoral research fellow in the project on the history of scientific observation at the Max-Planck Institute for the History of Science.
