Daniel Jacobson is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Michigan, and his recent research focuses on issues in ethics, political philosophy, and moral psychology. He is the co-editor, with Justin D’Arms, of Moral Psychology and Human Agency: Philosophical Essays on the Science of Ethics (Oxford University Press, 2014), and his work has appeared in a variety of prestigious scholarly journals and collected volumes. Recently, Professor Jacobson also served as Project Leader of “The Science of Ethics,” a three-year project funded by the John Templeton Foundation.

Suzy Killmister is Assistant Professor of Philosophy and holds a joint appointment in the Human Rights Institute at the University of Connecticut. Professor Killmister received her Ph.D. from the University of Melbourne in 2010. Her primary areas of research are social and political philosophy, ethics, and action theory, and her recent work has focused on the concept of dignity and the relationship between dignity and human rights.

Nick Zangwill is Ferens Chair of Philosophy at the University of Hull and 2017-18 CEPA Faculty Fellow. His main areas of research are in aesthetics and metaphysics. He is the author of The Metaphysics of Beauty (Cornell UP, 2001), Aesthetic Creation (Oxford UP, 2007), and Music and Aesthetic Reality: Formalism and the Limits of Description (Routledge, 2015) and is co-editor of Scruton’s Aesthetics (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012).

Constantine Sandis is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Hertfordshire. His primary areas of research are in action theory and moral psychology. He is the author of The Things We Do and Why We Do Them (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012) and the editor or co-editor of eight books, including most recently (with Jonathan Dancy) The Philosophy of Action: An Anthology (Wiley-Blackwell, 2015). He has published over 50 scholarly articles and book chapters in a wide variety of venues, including Ratio, Philosophy, and Ethical Theory and Moral Practice.

Chris Heathwood is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Colorado, Boulder. Professor Heathwood received his Ph.D. from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst in 2005. His research interests include Ethical Theory (with an emphasis on well-being and metaethics), Metaphysics, and Philosophy of Religion. His work has appeared in a variety of prestigious scholarly journals and collected volumes, including Analysis, Philosophical Studies, and Oxford Studies in Metaethics.

John Louis Howard is Associate Director of the Murphy Institute. He has degrees from the University of Georgia (B.A., Philosophy, 1982) and Tulane University (M.A., Philosophy, 1986, and Ph.D., Philosophy, 1992). He has been a faculty member at Tulane University, Loyola University, Xavier University, and the University of Mississippi. He also served as the Director of Bookstore Services at the University of Chicago Bookstore.

Kathleen C. Weaver (Katie) is Assistant Director of the Center for Public Policy Research. She earned a B.A. in political science and English from Tulane University in 2013 and an M.A. in social and cultural analysis from New York University in 2015. Alongside her work at The Murphy Institute, Katie is pursuing a Ph.D. in political science at Tulane; she received an M.A. en route in 2022.

Prior to joining the Murphy Institute, Katie worked in book publishing, serving as Assistant Editor in politics at Oxford University Press. 

Martyn P. Thompson is a Professor of Political Science. His main fields of research and publication are the history of political thought since the Renaissance, literature and politics, and contemporary German political theory. He has two doctorates, the first from the London School of Economics, the second (the Habilitation) from Tuebingen University. He has been a faculty member in the universities of London, Cambridge, and Tuebingen.

Richard F. Teichgraeber III is Professor History at Tulane University, and served as the Director of the Murphy Institute from 1984 to 2009. He is the author of Building Culture: Studies in the Intellectual History of Industrializing America, 1867-1910 (2010); Sublime Thoughts/Penny Wisdom: Situating Emerson and Thoreau in the American Marketplace (1995) and “Free Trade” and Moral Philosophy: Rethinking the Sources of Adam Smith’s Wealth of Nations (1986); and co-editor (with Thomas L. Haskell) of The Culture of the Market: Historical Essays (1993).

Mary K. Olson, Ph.D, is an Associate Professor of Economics at Tulane and currently serves as the director of The Murphy Institute’s Health Policy Program. Professor Olson’s teaching and research interests include health economics, the political economy of health policy, regulation, and the study of bureaucracy. She is an expert on Food and Drug Administration (FDA) regulation. Her research uses conceptual and empirical tools from economics and institutional knowledge from political economy and medicine to investigate the causes and consequences of pharmaceutical regulation and policy.