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Daniel R. Boisvert is Lecturer of at the University of North Carolina Charlotte. His main areas of research are and , especially their intersections and their relations to broader issues in and . His authored or coauthored articles have appeared in outlets such as Pacifi c Philosophical Quarterly, The Philosophical Quarterly, and The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Language. John Brunero is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Missouri–St. Louis, where he teaches moral, political, and legal philosophy. His research is primarily focused on questions concerning normative reasons and the requirements of practical . His work has appeared in such jour- nals as Philosophical Quarterly, Philosophical Studies, Pacifi c Philosophical Quarterly, Journal of Ethics and , and Ethics. Matthew Chrisman is Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Edinburgh. His main areas of research are ethical theory, the philosophy of language, and . He is also interested in semantics of modals, action theory, politi- cal philosophy, deontic logic, the ethics of climate change, and Kant. His work has appeared in such journals as The Journal of Philosophy, Philosophy and Phe- nomenological Research, Oxford Studies in Metaethics, Philosophers’ Imprint, and Philosophical Studies. Terence Cuneo is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Vermont. His primary areas of research include metaethics and the history of . His books include The Normative Web: An Argument for Moral (Oxford, 2007), Foundations of Ethics (edited with R. Shafer- Landau, Blackwell, 2007) and The Cambridge Companion to Thomas Reid (edited with R. van Woudenberg, Cambridge, 2004). Michael DePaul is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Notre Dame, and his main areas of research are ethics and epistemology. He is the author of Balance and Refi nement: Beyond Coherence Methods of Moral Inquiry (Routledge) and editor (with William Ramsey) of Rethinking Intuition (Rowman and Little- fi eld), Resurrecting Old-Fashioned (Rowman and Littlefi eld), and (with Linda Zagzebski) Intellectual (Oxford). Kyla Ebels-Duggan is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Northwestern Uni- versity. She works on moral and and their history, especially

htt p://philosophy.miller.continuumbooks.com © Christian Miller and Contributors (2011) The Continuum Companion to Ethics (London: Continuum Books) Notes on Contributors the work of . She has published articles in Philosophers’ Imprint, Ethics, and The Philosophical Quarterly and in 2009–2010 held the Laurance S. Rockefeller Visiting Fellowship at the Princeton University Center for Human Values. William J. FitzPatrick is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Rochester. His research focuses on topics in metaethics, normative ethical the- ory, and , and he has published articles in Ethics, Mind, Analysis, Philosophical Studies, Oxford Studies in Metaethics, and other journals. Among his current projects are the development of a robust, nonnaturalist ethical realism; a defense of the doctrine of double effect; and an exploration of questions at the intersection of ethical theory and the sciences.

Joshua Gert is Professor of Philosophy at the College of William and Mary. His primary research interests are metaethics, practical rationality and reasons for action, and philosophy of , all with an emphasis on the relevance of phi- losophy of language. His publications include Brute Rationality: Normativity and Human Action (Cambridge 2004), “Normative Strength and the Balance of Rea- sons,” Philosophical Review 2007 and “What Could not Be: An Argument for Color Primitivism,” The Journal of Philosophy 2008.

Hallvard Lillehammer teaches moral and political philosophy at Cambridge University where he is a University Senior Lecturer, the Sidgwick Lecturer, and Senior Research Fellow at Churchill College. He is the author of Companions in Guilt: Arguments for Ethical (2007), and coeditor of Ramsey’s Legacy (2005) and Real (2003).

Sean McKeever is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Davidson College. His research interests are in contemporary moral theory and metaethics. He is the author (with Michael Ridge) of Principled Ethics: Generalism as a Regulative Ideal (Oxford, 2006).

Alfred R. Mele is the William H. and Lucyle T. Werkmeister Professor of Phi- losophy at Florida State University and director of the Big Questions in Free Project (2010–13). He is the author of Irrationality (1987), Springs of Action (1992), Autonomous Agents (1995), Self-Deception Unmasked (2001), Motivation and (2003), and Luck (2006), and Effective Intentions: The Power of Conscious Will (2009). He also is the editor or coeditor of The Philosophy of Action (1997), Mental Causation (1993), The Oxford Handbook of Rationality (2004), Rationality and the Good (2007), and Free Will and Consciousness: How Might They Work? (2010).

Christian Miller is Associate Professor of Philosophy and Zachary T. Smith Faculty Fellow at Wake Forest University. His main areas of research are metaethics, moral psychology, moral character, action theory, and philosophy

htt p://philosophy.miller.continuumbooks.com © Christian Miller and Contributors (2011) The Continuum Companion to Ethics (London: Continuum Books) Notes on Contributors of religion. His work has appeared in such journals as Noûs, Philosophy and Phe- nomenological Research, Philosophical Studies, Philosophical Psychology, The Journal of Ethics, Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy, and Oxford Studies in , and he is currently writing a book tentatively entitled Moral Character: Philosophy and Psychology. He is the director of The Character Project, which is funded by a 3.67 million dollar grant for the study of character from the John Templeton Foundation. Thomas Nadelhoffer is Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Law and Policy at Dickinson College. His main areas of research include moral psychology, the philosophy of action, free will, and neurolaw, and his articles have appeared in journals such as Analysis, Midwest Studies in Philosophy, Mind & Language, Neu- roethics, and Philosophy and Phenomenological Research. He also edited Moral Psy- chology: Historical and Contemporary Readings with Eddy Nahmias and Shaun Nichols (Blackwell), and he is presently editing “The Future of Punishment” (Oxford). Douglas W. Portmore is an Associate Professor of Philosophy in the School of Historical, Philosophical, and Religious Studies at Arizona State University. His research focuses mainly on , rationality, and the interconnections between the two, but he also writes on wellbeing, posthumous harm, and the nonidentity problem. He is the author of Commonsense : Wherein Morality Meets Rationality, which is forthcoming with Oxford University Press. In addition, he has published several articles in various journals, including Noûs, Mind, Ethics, Utilitas, Philosophical Studies, and Oxford Studies in . J. B. Schneewind is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Johns Hopkins Univer- sity and a Visiting Scholar in Philosophy at NYU. Author of two books and numerous articles on the history of moral philosophy, he has recently published a collection of his essays entitled Essays on the History of Moral Philosophy (Oxford). Russ Shafer-Landau is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Wisconsin- Madison. He works primarily in metaethics, and is the author of : A Defence (Oxford), Whatever Happened to Good and Evil? (Oxford) and The Fun- damentals of Ethics (Oxford). He is the editor of Oxford Studies in Metaethics. Walter Sinnott-Armstrong is Chauncey Stillman Professor of Practical Ethics in the Philosophy Department and the Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke Univer- sity. He has served as vice-chair of the Board of Offi cers of the American Philo- sophical Association and co-director of the MacArthur Project on Law and Neuroscience. He publishes widely in normative moral theory, metaeth- ics, applied ethics, moral psychology and neuroscience, ,

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epistemology, informal logic, and philosophy of religion. His most recent books include Moral Skepticisms, Morality Without God?, and, as editor, Moral Psychol- ogy (3 Volumes) and Conscious Will and Responsibility (with Lynn Nadel). Anita Superson is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Kentucky. She specializes in ethics, particularly metaethics and moral psychology, and in fem- inism. She is the author of The Moral Skeptic (Oxford University Press, 2009), and the coeditor (with Ann Cudd) of Theorizing Backlash: Philosophical Refl ections on the Backlash against Feminism (Rowman and Littlefi eld, 2002). She authored an entry on “Feminist Moral Psychology” in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Christine Swanton teaches in the Philosophy Department at the University of Auckland in New Zealand. She is currently working on the of Hume and Nietzsche. Her book on virtue ethics, Virtue Ethics: A Pluralistic View, was published with Oxford University Press in 2003. Pekka Väyrynen is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at University of Leeds. He works primarily in metaethics and maintains strong interests in metaphysics, epistemology, and philosophy of language. His work has appeared in many journals and volumes including Ethics, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Oxford Studies in Metaethics, and Philosophical Quarterly. His current work on a monograph on the distinction between thick and thin ethical concepts and its signifi cance (tentatively entitled The Lewd, the Rude, and the Nasty: A Study of Thick Concepts) is supported by grants from UK Arts and Humanities Research Council and the European Community. William J. Wainwright is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy Emeritus at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Major recent publications include Rea- son and the Heart (1995), Philosophy of Religion, 2nd ed. (1998), Religion and Moral- ity (2005), and the edited volume The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Religion (2005). Eric Wiland is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Missouri- St. Louis. He is the author of Reasons (Continuum, forthcoming), and a wide variety of papers on ethics and . He also organizes SLACRR, the St. Louis Conference on Reasons and Rationality.

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