Christian Coons, Associate Professor of Philosophy at Bowling Green State University, earned his doctorate from the University of California, Davis in 2007. His research focuses on theory selection in normative ethics, the nature of value, and the structure of morality. He has published work in each of the major sub-fields of moral philosophy: applied ethics, normative ethics, axiology, metaethics, political and legal theory, while editing volumes on paternalism and manipulation.

Bas van der Vossen, Associate Professor in the Smith Institute for Political Economy and Philosophy, earned his doctorate from the University of Oxford in 2008. His research focuses on issues in political philosophy and the philosophy of law. His work has appeared in journals such as Law and Philosophy, Oxford Journal of Legal Studies, and Politics, Philosophy, and Economics.

During his fellowship year Professor van der Vossen developed a theory of property that is consistent with both Lockean and Kantian commitments.

Neil Sinhababu, Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the National University of Singapore, received his Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin in 2008. His research, which focuses on metaethics and the philosophy of action, has appeared in top philosophy journals including Philosophical Review, Noûs, Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy, Utilitas, and Pacific Philosophical Quarterly.

Massimo Renzo, Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Warwick, received his Ph.D. in philosophy of law from the University of Milan School of Law in in 2007. He works primarily in legal and political philosophy and is interested in problems relating to political authority, political obligation, and criminal law.

Hille Paakkunainen received her Ph.D. from the University of Pittsburgh in 2011 and is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Syracuse University. Her research interests are primarily in the fields of ethics and action theory and especially the intersection of the two. Her work is forthcoming in a number of venues, including The Oxford Handbook of Reasons and Normativity, Oxford Studies in Metaethics, and the Routledge Handbook of Metaethics.

Michael Sevel is Lecturer in Jurisprudence at Sydney Law School and a 2015-16 CEPA Faculty Fellow. He has a Ph.D. in philosophy (2010) and J.D. (2008) from the University of Texas at Austin, and researches issues in legal theory, moral philosophy, and the history of philosophy. He also has interests in torts and maritime law. He is currently under contract with Oxford University Press to write the first comprehensive treatment of the moral, legal, and political philosophy of Joseph Raz.

Jason Raibley is Associate Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Applied Ethics Forum at California State University – Long Beach. He received his Ph.D. from UMass Amherst in 2007, and he is the author of a number of articles and presented papers on personal well-being, value theory, and bioethics. While at the Murphy Institute, he worked on a book that defends a naturalistic and holistic theory of welfare. This theory understands the well-being of adult human persons in terms of the components of robustly functioning agency, which involves the realization of personal values.

Jason Hanna is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Northern Illinois University and is a 2015-16 CEPA Faculty Fellow. Specializing in normative and applied ethics, his recent research has focused on examining deontological constraints on harming, and his current research project aims to provide a more-or-less unqualified defense of paternalistic intervention. Professor Hanna’s work has appeared in a number of prestigious academic journals, including Journal of Ethics, Social Theory and Practice, and Ethics. He earned his Ph.D.

Rosa Terlazzo is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Kansas State University. She earned her Ph.D. from the Australian National University in 2013, and her research focuses on issues in moral and political philosophy. She is the author of several papers which have appeared in a number of highly regarded academic journals and collected volumes.

Paul Hurley is Edward J. Sexton Professor of Philosophy at Claremont McKenna College and received his Ph.D. from the University of Pittsburgh in 1988. His research focuses on issues in both ethics and metaethics, and his work has appeared in a number of highly regarded scholarly journals, including Ethics, Mind, Philosopher’s Imprint, and Philosophical Studies. He is the author of Beyond Consequentialism which was published by Oxford University Press in 2009.