Contributors

Hsiang-Yun Chen is an assistant research fellow at The Institute of European and American Studies (IEAS) at Academia Sinica and works primarily in philosophy of language and  feminist philosophy. In addition to the formal and the technical, she also thinks hard about the social and the normative. Other than philosophy, she enjoys art, capoeira, and vegan cooking.

Giulio Di Basilio is an Irish Research Council Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Trinity College Dublin, Ireland. He specializes in ancient philosophy. His current project concerns Aristotle’s Eudemian Ethics.

Nayef Al-Rodhan is a Philosopher, Neuroscientist and Geostrategist. He holds an MD and PhD, and was educated and worked at the Mayo Clinic, Yale, and Harvard University in the US. He is an Honorary Fellow of St. Antony's College, Oxford University, UK, Head of the Geopolitics and Global Futures Program, Geneva Center for Security Policy, Switzerland, Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Philosophy, School of Advanced Study, University of London, UK, Member of the Global Future Councils at the World Economic Forum, and Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (FRSA).

In 2014, he was voted as one of the Top 30 most influential Neuroscientists in the world, in 2017, he was named amongst the Top 100 geostrategists in the World, and in 2022, he was named as one of the Top 50 influential researchers whose work could shape 21st-century politics and policy. He is a Prize-winning scholar who has written 25 books and more than 300 articles, including most recently 21st-Century Statecraft: Reconciling Power, Justice And Meta-Geopolitical Interests, Sustainable History And Human Dignity, Emotional Amoral Egoism: A Neurophilosophy Of Human Nature And Motivations, and On Power: Neurophilosophical Foundations And Policy Implications. His current research focuses on transdisciplinarity, neuro-techno-philosophy, and the future of philosophy, with a particular emphasis on the interplay between philosophy, neuroscience, strategic culture, applied history, geopolitics, disruptive technologies, Outer Space security, international relations, and global security. 

Christopher Parker, MFA, EdD teaches Creative Thinking at Montclair State University. Chris did doctoral studies with the Institute for the Advancement of Philosophy for Children.  A poet and a playwright, Parker specializes in Creative Aging workshops. Contact Chris at parkerc@montclair.edu, or his web site drchristopherwparker.com

Cecilea Mun is currently a Visiting Assistant Professor of the Philosophy, Politics, and Economics program, with the Department of Philosophy, at the University of Louisville, KY, the founding director of the Society for Philosophy of Emotion, and the founding editor-in-chief of the Journal of Philosophy of Emotion. I have a total of 15 years teaching experience at the undergraduate level of education, and have taught at a variety of institutions, including community colleges, public land grant institutions, and one of the largest public universities in the country.

Mark Coppenger (BA, Ouachita; PhD Vanderbilt; MDiv, Southwestern) has taught philosophy at a number of colleges and seminaries, and also served as an Army officer and pastor. A good introduction to his work is available at his website, markcoppenger.com. Two new books are forthcoming this spring—Apologetical Aesthetics (Wipf and Stock), featuring a dozen of his doctoral students in theology and the arts, and  a commissioned work from the Scottish publisher, Christian Focus (If Christianity Is So Good, Why Are Christians So Bad?).

Carolyn Dicey Jennings is Associate Professor of Philosophy and Cognitive Science at the University of California, Merced, and the author of The Attending Mind. Her research interests include attention, perception, consciousness, and action.

Barbara Brown Taylor is a best-selling author, teacher, and Episcopal priest.  Her first memoir, Leaving Church, won an Author of the Year award from the Georgia Writers Association in 2006.  Her next two books, An Altar in the World (2010) and Learning to Walk in the Dark (2015), earned places on the New York Times bestseller list.  She has served on the faculties of Piedmont College, Columbia Theological Seminary, Candler School of Theology at Emory University, McAfee School of Theology at Mercer University, and the Certificate in Theological Studies program at Arrendale State Prison for Women in Alto, Georgia.  In 2014 TIME included her on its annual list of Most Influential People; in 2015 she was named Georgia Woman of the Year; in 2016 she received the President’s Medal at the Chautauqua Institution in New York.  Her fourteenth book, Holy Envy, was released by HarperOne in March 2019.

Jules Wong is a Graduate Fellow at Penn State University and a SSHRC Doctoral Fellowship holder beginning Fall 2023. They research the ethics and politics of need with a focus on gender.

Peter Adamson is Professor of Late Ancient and Arabic Philosophy at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich. He is the author of "Al-Kindi" and "Al-Razi" in the series "Great Medieval Thinkers" and has edited or co-edited many books, including "The Cambridge Companion to Arabic Philosophy" and “Interpreting Avicenna: Critical Essays." He is also the host of the History of Philosophy podcast, which appears as a series of books with Oxford University Press.

Phil Ford (Ph.D. University of Minnesota, 2003) is an associate professor of musicology at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music. He has also taught at Stanford University and the University of Texas at Austin. His work has dealt especially with postwar American culture and music (jazz, pop, film music, the avant-garde), musical performance, sound, philosophies of experience, and the intellectual history of counterculture. He is the author of Dig: Sound and Music in Hip Culture (Oxford University Press, 2013) and has published essays in Representations, Journal of Musicology, Musical Quarterly, and elsewhere. Since 2006 he has blogged at Dial ‘M’ for Musicology, and in 2018 he and J. F. Martel launched Weird Studies, an arts and philosophy podcast. “Weird Studies” is also a pretty good description of what his current book project is about: it concerns magical styles of thought, feeling, and experience in various contexts, musical and otherwise.

Russell Marcus is Associate Professor and Chair of Philosophy at Hamilton College, specializing in philosophy of mathematics and philosophical pedagogy.  He is vice president of the American Association of Philosophy Teachers; the founder and director of the Hamilton College Summer Program in Philosophy, a two-week laboratory for pedagogical innovation; and a co-recipient of the 2020 APA Prize for Excellence in Philosophy Teaching.

Luke William Hunt is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Alabama, where he teaches in the department's Jurisprudence Track. He worked as an FBI Special Agent before making the natural career change to academia. He is the author of three books. His newest, Police Deception and Dishonesty – The Logic of Lying, is now available from Oxford University Press.

Sherri Conklin's research in Moral Theory deals with topics at the intersections of Metaethics, Normative Ethics, Moral Psychology, and Applied Ethics. Currently a lecturer for the Department of Philosophy at University of Colorado Boulder, Conklin completed a PhD in Philosophy at the University of California Santa Barbara and conducts research on marginalization in the profession of philosophy as the Co-Director of the Demographics in Philosophy Project.

Layla Mayorga is a Ph.D. student at Fordham University. Her research lies at the intersection of philosophy of religion, philosophy of public policy, and Latin American philosophy. In addition to philosophy, she has a passion for issues surrounding the rights of undocumented individuals in the U.S.

Jacob Howland is McFarlin Professor of Philosophy Emeritus at the University of Tulsa. His research focuses on ancient Greek philosophy, history, epic, and tragedy; the Hebrew Bible and the Talmud; Kierkegaard; and literary and philosophical responses to the Holocaust and Soviet totalitarianism. His latest book is Glaucon’s Fate: History, Myth, and Character in Plato’s Republic (Paul Dry Books, 2018). His other books are Plato and the Talmud (Cambridge University Press, 2011); Kierkegaard and Socrates: A Study in Philosophy and Faith (Cambridge University Press, 2006); The Paradox of Political Philosophy: Socrates’ Philosophic Trial (Rowman & Littlefield, 1998); and The Republic: The Odyssey of Philosophy (Twayne Publishers, 1993 and Paul Dry Books, 2004). His articles have appeared in the Review of Metaphysics, the American Political Science Review, the Review of Politics, the New Criterion, Commentary, the Claremont Review of Books, the Jewish Review of Books, City Journal, The Nation, UnHerd, Quillette, and Mosaic, among other venues.