Akeel Bilgrami is the Sidney Morgenbesser Professor of Philosophy at Columbia University.
Matthew J. Brown is the Jo Ann and Donald N. Boydston Professor of American Philosophy at Southern Illinois University.
Anjan Chakravartty is the Appignani Foundation Professor of Philosophy at the University of Miami.
Aleksandra Hernandez is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Miami.
Ian James Kidd is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Nottingham.
Janet A. Kourany is Professor of Philosophy and of Gender Studies at the University of Notre Dame.
David Ludwig is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Wageningen University.
Gurpreet Rattan is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Toronto.
Alan Richardson is Professor of Philosophy at the University of British Columbia.
Stéphanie Ruphy is Professor of Philosophy of Science at the École normale supérieure – Université Paris Sciences et Lettres.
Thomas Uebel is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the University of Manchester.
Catherine Wilson is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the University of York.
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