John Broome is White's Professor of Moral Philosophy at the University of Oxford. He was previously Professor of Philosophy at the University of St Andrews and Professor of Economics at the University of Bristol. His books include Weighing Goods (Blackwell 1991), Ethics Out of Economics (Cambridge University Press, 1999), and Weighing Lives (Oxford University Press, 2004).
Sir Partha Dasgupta is the Frank Ramsey Professor of Economics at the University of Cambridge and Fellow of St. John's College, Cambridge. His publications include An Inquiry into Well-Being and Destitution (1993) and Human Well-Being and the Natural Environment (2001). Professor Dasgupta is a Fellow of the British Academy, Fellow of the Royal Society, Member of the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences, Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and Foreign Associate of the US National Academy of Sciences.
Franz Dietrich is Assistant Professor of Economic Theory at the University of Maastricht and Nuffield Foundation New Career Development Fellow (jointly with Christian List) at the London School of Economics and Political Science. He holds a DPhil in Mathematics from the University of Oxford and was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Konstanz. He has published on several topics in economic theory and the philosophy of science, including judgment aggregation and the foundations of social choice theory.
Igor Douven is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Leuven. His main research interests are in epistemology, the philosophy of science, and the philosophy of language.
Philippe Fontaine is Professor of Economics at the École normale supérieure de Cachan and Research Associate at the Centre for Philosophy of Natural and Social Science at the London School of Economics. He is the coeditor, with Robert Leonard, of The Experiment in the History of Economics (Routledge 2005). His research interests are in the history of recent social science.
Andrew Halpin is Professor of Legal Theory at Swansea University. He is the author of Rights and Law – Analysis and Theory (Hart Publishing, 1997), Reasoning with Law (Hart Publishing, 2001) and Definition in the Criminal Law (Hart Publishing, 2004). His current research interests include the methodology of theory, law's relationship with other disciplines, and general/global jurisprudence.
Michael Jones-Lee is a Profesor of Economics at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne. He has acted as a consultant to a number of government and public sector agencies in the UK and abroad, and was recently Specialist Advisor to the House of Lords Select Committee on economic affairs inquiry into the government policy in the management of risk.
Christian List is Professor of Political Science at the London School of Economics and Political Science. He held research and visiting positions at Oxford, the Australian National University, MIT, Harvard, Princeton and the University of Konstanz. His work falls into the overlap between political science, social choice theory and philosophy. In addition to technical aspects of judgment aggregation, his current research also addresses philosophical theories of group agency and democracy.
Imelda Maher is Sutherland Professor of European Law at University College Dublin. Her current research is on Juridification in the context of competition law and the interface of competition law and intellectual property law. She is author of Competition Law: Alignment and Reform (Sweet & Maxwell 1999) and an editor of the European Law Journal.
Adam Oliver is RCUK Academic Fellow in Health Economics and Policy at the London School of Economics, and Deputy Director of LSE Health. He is a former Japanese Ministry of Education Research Scholar at Keio University in Tokyo, and a former Commonwealth Fund Harkness Fellow at Columbia University. He co-founded the Health Equity Network, the Preference Elicitation Group, the New York Health Policy Group, the UK–Japan–USA Health Policy Network, and the European Health Policy Group, and is Founding Co-Editor of the journal Health Economics, Policy and Law. He has published widely in the areas of economic evaluation, risk and uncertainty, health equity, and the economics and policy of healthcare reform.
Shepley Orr is a Senior Research Fellow at University College London where he works in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering with a focus on the elicitation of public preferences with special reference to altruism and justice, and the normative justification of cost–benefit analysis. His research generally concerns the relationship between political philosophy and economic policy, psychology and game theory, and philosophical and experimental approaches in decision theory.
Hilary Putnam is the Cogan University Professor Emeritus at Harvard University. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy and of the Institut de France, Académie des Sciences Morale et Politique. His recent books include The Collapse of the Fact-Value Dichotomy (Harvard University Press, 2002) and Ethics without Ontology (Harvard University Press, 2004). His current focus is on the relations of ethics and economics.
Jan-Willem Romeijn is a postdoctoral researcher at the Faculty of Philosophy of the University of Groningen. He wrote a thesis on inductive logic and Bayesian statistics. His present research interests include formal models of reasoning, scientific method, statistical inference, and causality.
Vivian Walsh is Distinguished Visiting Scholar in Economics and Philosophy at Muhlenberg College, Allentown, PA. His best known books include Classical and Neoclassical Theories of General Equilibrium, with Harvey Gram (Oxford University Press, 1980), and Rationality, Allocation and Reproduction (Clarendon Press, 1996). He has been publishing papers on economics and philosophy since 1954 in various journals, including the American Economic Review and the Journal of Philosophy. Recently he has been collaborating with Hilary Putnam on work on the relations of ethics and economics.
