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Cheryl Abbate is a Philosophy doctoral candidate at the University of Colorado, Boulder, in the USA. Journal articles include: “Adventures in Moral Consistency: How to Develop an Abortion Ethic from an Animal Rights Framework” (Ethical Theory and Moral Practice), “How to Help when it Hurts: The Problem of Assisting Victims of Injustice” (Journal of Social Philosophy), “The Search for Liability in the Defensive Killing of Nonhuman Animals” (Social Theory and Practice). Research interests include: social and political philosophy, ethical theory, and applied ethics, especially animal ethics, military ethics, and environmental ethics.
Dr. Alfred Archer is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at The Department of Philosophy and The Tilburg Center for Logic, Ethics, and Philosophy of Science (TiLPS) at Tilburg University in The Netherlands. His primary research is in moral philosophy, particularly supererogation (acts beyond the call of duty), the emotion of admiration and the moral psychology of inequality. He also has research interests in aesthetics, applied ethics and philosophy of sport.
Professor Carla Bagnoli is Professor of Theoretical Philosophy at the University of Modena in Italy and Professor II at the University of Oslo in Norway. She previously taught at the University of Wisconsin, as tenured Professor. She has held visiting positions at the Université Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne, and at the Ecole Normale Supérieure at Lyon. In addition to articles in metaethics, moral epistemology and moral psychology, Bagnoli has published three monographs on moral dilemmas, the limits of ethical theory, and the authority of morality in Italian. She is also the editor of Morality and the Emotions (Oxford University Press, 2011), and Constructivism in Ethics (Cambridge University Press, 2013). Bagnoli is currently working on a constructivist model of reason that highlights its incompleteness, relationality and embodiment. This model is designed to deal with complex phenomena such as perplexity and conflicts among sources of moral and epistemic authority, starting from considerations about the needs and rationale of reason itself.
Dr. David Boutland is a Philosophy Instructor at the University of Calgary and Mount Royal University in Canada, teaching courses in Ethics, Applied Ethics, Philosophy of Love and Sex, and Philosophy of Death. His research interests include Political Philosophy, Value Theory, Moral Theory and Applied Ethics.
Justin Caouette currently holds the position of Philosophy Instructor at the Southern Alberta Institute of Technology (SAIT) in Calgary, Alberta in Canada, where he teaches Ethics, and Ethics and Technology. He is also a doctoral candidate in the Philosophy Department at the University of Calgary (ABD). His research interests include (but are not limited to) moral obligation, enhancement, punishment, moral responsibility and the moral emotions.
Professor Aaron D. Cobb is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Auburn University at Montgomery in the USA. He has published research on the history and philosophy of science, moral and intellectual virtues, and the philosophy of religion. His current scholarship focuses on moral exemplarity and the virtues. And he is completing a monograph titled A Virtue-Based Defense of Perinatal Hospice. He is the author of Loving Samuel: Suffering, Dependence, and the Calling of Love.
Professor Bradford Cokelet is currently a Visiting Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Kansas in the USA. His research centers on questions about the nature and measurement of virtue, the role of virtue in ethical theory, and the importance of virtue for human flourishing. He is currently working on a book titled Buddhism, Ethics, and the Good Life.
Aidan Dumaisnil is a doctoral candidate in Organizational Behavior and Human Resources at The Haskayne School of Business, University of Calgary in Canada. Her research interests focus around mental health at work. She is currently working on projects related to PTSD at work, leadership and mental health, and proactivity. She has published her research in Human Resource Management Review.
Professor Laura Ekstrom is Francis S. Haserot Professor of Philosophy at The College of William & Mary, in the USA. Her publications address a range of issues pertaining to agency, including free will, moral responsibility, autonomy, human suffering, and compassion.
Professor Trudy Govier was Professor of Philosophy at the University of Lethbridge in Canada, retiring from that position in 2012. Her main areas of interest are argumentation theory, social philosophy, and applied ethics. Govier is the author of many papers and books, including A Practical Study of Argument (seven editions), Forgiveness and Revenge, and Social Trust and Human Communities. She now lives in Calgary where she is active in several community groups.
Dr Carolyn Price is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the Open University in the UK. She is the author of Emotion (2015, Polity Press) and of a range of papers exploring the nature and value of emotion and mood. She is particular interested in the intentional features of emotion and mood, the different norms by which they are judged, and – most recently – their role in agency and their relationship to the self.
Dr Helen Spandler is a Reader in Mental Health in the School of Social Work, Care and Community at the University of Central Lancashire, Preston, in the UK. She is also Managing Editor of Asylum: the magazine for Democratic Psychiatry http://asylummagazine.org/ Helen has authored various articles and books on the politics of mental health, most recently the edited collection Madness, Distress and the Politics of Disablement (Policy Press)
Professor Karsten J. Struhl teaches political philosophy, philosophy of religion, and cross-cultural philosophy at John Jay College of Criminal Justice (CUNY) and the New School for Public Engagement in the USA. He has also taught in a number of adult education programs, at senior citizen centers, and at the Queens House of Detention. He has co-edited Philosophy Now, Ethics in Perspective, The Philosophical Quest: A Cross-Cultural Reader, and When Young People Break the Law: Debating Issues on Punishment for Juveniles. He writes about human nature, just war theory, problems of revenge and punishment, global ethics, visions of communism, ecology, Marxism, and Buddhist philosophy. His articles have appeared in a variety of journals, books, and encyclopedias.
Professor Justin M. Weinhardt is an Associate Professor in Organizational Behavior and Human Resources at The Haskayne School of Business, University of Calgary in Canada. He is an organizational psychologist with interests in motivation, decision making and mental health at work. His research has been published in premier journals such as Journal of Applied Psychology, Journal of Management, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, Personnel Psychology, and Organizational Research Methods.
Dr. Alfred Archer is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at The Department of Philosophy and The Tilburg Center for Logic, Ethics, and Philosophy of Science (TiLPS) at Tilburg University in The Netherlands. His primary research is in moral philosophy, particularly supererogation (acts beyond the call of duty), the emotion of admiration and the moral psychology of inequality. He also has research interests in aesthetics, applied ethics and philosophy of sport.
Professor Carla Bagnoli is Professor of Theoretical Philosophy at the University of Modena in Italy and Professor II at the University of Oslo in Norway. She previously taught at the University of Wisconsin, as tenured Professor. She has held visiting positions at the Université Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne, and at the Ecole Normale Supérieure at Lyon. In addition to articles in metaethics, moral epistemology and moral psychology, Bagnoli has published three monographs on moral dilemmas, the limits of ethical theory, and the authority of morality in Italian. She is also the editor of Morality and the Emotions (Oxford University Press, 2011), and Constructivism in Ethics (Cambridge University Press, 2013). Bagnoli is currently working on a constructivist model of reason that highlights its incompleteness, relationality and embodiment. This model is designed to deal with complex phenomena such as perplexity and conflicts among sources of moral and epistemic authority, starting from considerations about the needs and rationale of reason itself.
Dr. David Boutland is a Philosophy Instructor at the University of Calgary and Mount Royal University in Canada, teaching courses in Ethics, Applied Ethics, Philosophy of Love and Sex, and Philosophy of Death. His research interests include Political Philosophy, Value Theory, Moral Theory and Applied Ethics.
Justin Caouette currently holds the position of Philosophy Instructor at the Southern Alberta Institute of Technology (SAIT) in Calgary, Alberta in Canada, where he teaches Ethics, and Ethics and Technology. He is also a doctoral candidate in the Philosophy Department at the University of Calgary (ABD). His research interests include (but are not limited to) moral obligation, enhancement, punishment, moral responsibility and the moral emotions.
Professor Aaron D. Cobb is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Auburn University at Montgomery in the USA. He has published research on the history and philosophy of science, moral and intellectual virtues, and the philosophy of religion. His current scholarship focuses on moral exemplarity and the virtues. And he is completing a monograph titled A Virtue-Based Defense of Perinatal Hospice. He is the author of Loving Samuel: Suffering, Dependence, and the Calling of Love.
Professor Bradford Cokelet is currently a Visiting Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Kansas in the USA. His research centers on questions about the nature and measurement of virtue, the role of virtue in ethical theory, and the importance of virtue for human flourishing. He is currently working on a book titled Buddhism, Ethics, and the Good Life.
Aidan Dumaisnil is a doctoral candidate in Organizational Behavior and Human Resources at The Haskayne School of Business, University of Calgary in Canada. Her research interests focus around mental health at work. She is currently working on projects related to PTSD at work, leadership and mental health, and proactivity. She has published her research in Human Resource Management Review.
Professor Laura Ekstrom is Francis S. Haserot Professor of Philosophy at The College of William & Mary, in the USA. Her publications address a range of issues pertaining to agency, including free will, moral responsibility, autonomy, human suffering, and compassion.
Professor Trudy Govier was Professor of Philosophy at the University of Lethbridge in Canada, retiring from that position in 2012. Her main areas of interest are argumentation theory, social philosophy, and applied ethics. Govier is the author of many papers and books, including A Practical Study of Argument (seven editions), Forgiveness and Revenge, and Social Trust and Human Communities. She now lives in Calgary where she is active in several community groups.
Dr Carolyn Price is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the Open University in the UK. She is the author of Emotion (2015, Polity Press) and of a range of papers exploring the nature and value of emotion and mood. She is particular interested in the intentional features of emotion and mood, the different norms by which they are judged, and – most recently – their role in agency and their relationship to the self.
Dr Helen Spandler is a Reader in Mental Health in the School of Social Work, Care and Community at the University of Central Lancashire, Preston, in the UK. She is also Managing Editor of Asylum: the magazine for Democratic Psychiatry http://asylummagazine.org/ Helen has authored various articles and books on the politics of mental health, most recently the edited collection Madness, Distress and the Politics of Disablement (Policy Press)
Professor Karsten J. Struhl teaches political philosophy, philosophy of religion, and cross-cultural philosophy at John Jay College of Criminal Justice (CUNY) and the New School for Public Engagement in the USA. He has also taught in a number of adult education programs, at senior citizen centers, and at the Queens House of Detention. He has co-edited Philosophy Now, Ethics in Perspective, The Philosophical Quest: A Cross-Cultural Reader, and When Young People Break the Law: Debating Issues on Punishment for Juveniles. He writes about human nature, just war theory, problems of revenge and punishment, global ethics, visions of communism, ecology, Marxism, and Buddhist philosophy. His articles have appeared in a variety of journals, books, and encyclopedias.
Professor Justin M. Weinhardt is an Associate Professor in Organizational Behavior and Human Resources at The Haskayne School of Business, University of Calgary in Canada. He is an organizational psychologist with interests in motivation, decision making and mental health at work. His research has been published in premier journals such as Journal of Applied Psychology, Journal of Management, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, Personnel Psychology, and Organizational Research Methods.
