Jacoby Adeshei Carter is Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Philosophy at Howard University. He is the Director of the Alain Leroy Locke Society and the editor of the African American Philosophy, and the Diaspora Book Series published by Palgrave/Macmillan. His research interests include Africana philosophy, social and political philosophy, value theory (applied ethics), philosophy of race, and pragmatism, especially, the philosophy of Alain Locke. He is the author of African American Contributions to the Americas’ Cultures: A Critical Edition of Lectures by Alain Locke and co-editor of Philosophic Values and World Citizenship: Locke to Obama and Beyond. Presently, Professor Carter is at work on two volumes: first, Philosophizing the Americas: An Inter-American Discourse is an anthology that aims to forge a dialogue between the African American, Latin American and Caribbean philosophical traditions. The second, tentatively titled Insurrectionist Ethics: New Perspectives is a collection of essays that address advocacy on behalf of oppressed groups to promote radical social transformation in the interest of justice. 

Laura Valentini holds the Chair in Philosophy and Political Theory at LMU Munich. Prior to joining LMU in 2021, she held faculty positions at KCL, LSE and UCL, as well as visiting and postdoctoral positions at the Australian National University, the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study, the University of Uppsala, Harvard University, and the University of Frankfurt. In 2015, she was awarded a Philip Leverhulme Prize in Politics and International Relations and in 2023 she was elected a member of the European Academy. Her work is situated in the fields of contemporary political, legal, and moral philosophy. Her particular research interests include global justice, political obligation, the methodology of political theory, and the relation between moral philosophy and social ontology (e.g., the morality of socially constructed norms, the nature of normative powers). Her most recent book, Morality and Socially Constructed Norms, appeared with OUP in 2023.