Group Members

Santiago Amaya is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Universidad de los Andes in Bogotá, where he co-directs the Moral Judgment and Emotion Lab. He got his PhD from the Philosophy- Neuroscience-Psychology program at Washington University in St. Louis and was a Volkswagen Postdoctoral Fellow at the Berlin School of Mind and Brain. Santiago’s work has been published in Noûs, Philosophical Studies, Philosophy Compass, Social Philosophy and Policy, Synthese, among other venues. He has been awarded grants by the John Templeton Foundation and the James S. McDonnell Foundation. Currently Santiago serves as member of the steering committee of the Society for the Philosophy of Agency, is a member of the advisory board for the Global Observatory of Academic Freedom of the Open Society University Network and is editor at Ergo. The Google Scholar page for Professor Amaya can be found here.

Jana Schaich Borg is Associate Research Professor at Duke’s Social Science Research Institute.  She is also the Director of Duke’s Master in Interdisciplinary Data Science Program, co-Director of Duke’s Moral Attitudes and Decision-Making Lab, and co-Director of Duke’s Moral Artificial Intelligence Lab.  Dr. Jana Schaich Borg uses neuroscience, computational modeling, and emerging technologies to study how we make social decisions that influence, or that are influenced by, other people.  As a neuroscientist, she employs neuroimaging, ECOG, simultaneous electrophysiological recordings in rats, and 3-D videos to gain insight into how humans and rodents make social decisions.  As a data scientist, she develops new statistical approaches to analyze these high-dimensional multi-modal data in order to uncover principles of how the brain integrates complex social information with internal representations of value to motivate pro-social actions. The Google Scholar page for Professor Borg can be found here.

Daryl Cameron is Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology and senior research associate in the Rock Ethics Institute at Penn State University. His research and teaching focus on the psychological processes involved in empathy and moral decision-making. Much of his work examines motivational factors that shape empathetic emotions and behaviors toward others. This line of research is united by the theme that empathy is often a motivated choice: many apparent limitations of empathy may result from how people strategically weigh their costs and benefits. In his second line of research, Cameron uses tools from social cognitive psychology—including implicit measurement and mathematical modeling—to understand individual differences in moral intuitions and empathy for pain. Cameron’s research has been funded by multiple grants from the National Science Foundation, as well as the John Templeton Foundation. His work has been published in venues such as the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, Trends in Cognitive Sciences, Psychological Science, and Personality and Social Psychology Review. His research on moral judgments about implicit racial bias (Cameron, Payne, & Knobe, 2010) received the Morton Deutsch Award for Best Article from the International Society for Justice Research, and his paper on effort and empathy choice (Cameron et al., 2019, JEP: General) received Penn State’s Roy C. Buck Award for best social sciences paper by a pre-tenure faculty member. Dr. Cameron received the Early Career in Affective Science Award in 2022, from the Society for Affective Science. The Google Scholar page for Professor Cameron can be found here.

Molly Crockett is Associate Professor of Psychology and the University Center for Human Values at Princeton University. Prior to joining Princeton, Crockett was an Associate Professor of Psychology at Yale University, Associate Professor of Experimental Psychology at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of Jesus College. They hold a BSc in Psychobiology from UCLA and a PhD in Experimental Psychology from the University of Cambridge. Crockett’s lab investigates moral cognition: how people decide whether to help or harm, punish or forgive, trust or condemn. Their research integrates theory and methods from psychology, neuroscience, economics, philosophy, and data science. Crockett’s recent work has explored moral outrage in the digital age and trust in leaders during a pandemic.

Fiery Cushman is Professor of Psychology and Director of the Moral Psychology Research Laboratory at Harvard University. He studies how people make decisions, with a special emphasis on moral decisions.  His work has addressed the structure and function of punishment, the aversion to performing harmful actions, and how candidate actions spontaneously come to mind for consideration.  He received is BA and PhD from Harvard and taught for several years at Brown University prior to joining the faculty at Harvard. The Google Scholar page for Professor Cushman can be found here.

Felipe De Brigard is the Fuchsberg-Levine Family Associate Professor of Philosophy, and Associate Professor in the department of Psychology and Neuroscience and in the Center for Cognitive Neuroscience at Duke University. He is also Principal Investigator of the Imagination and Modal Cognition Laboratory (IMC-Lab) within the Duke Institute for Brain Sciences. He earned a bachelor's degree from the National University of Colombia, where he studied philosophy and neuropsychology. He then earned a MA from Tufts University, where he studied philosophy and cognitive science, and a PhD from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, where he studied philosophy and cognitive neuroscience. Before arriving to Duke, he spent two years as a post-doctoral fellow in the Cognitive Neuroscience of Memory Lab and the Center for Brain Science at Harvard University. He has published several articles in philosophy, psychology and neuroscientific venues, and has received a number of awards, including being named Rising Star by the American Psychological Association, the Stanton Prize by the Society for Philosophy and Psychology, and the Early Career award by the Psychonomic Society. His research focuses on the nature of memory and its relations to other cognitive faculties, such as perception, imagination, attention and consciousness, and he is also interested in the foundations of neuroscience and moral psychology. He is also co-director of the Summer Seminars in Neuroscience and Philosophy, which have been hosted every year at Duke University since 2016. The Google Scholar page for Professor De Brigard can be found here.

John M. Doris is the Peter L. Dyson Professor of Ethics in Organizations and Life at Cornell University. He works at the intersection of cognitive science, moral psychology, and philosophical ethics, and has authored and co-authored papers for such venues as Noûs, Philosophical Studies, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Bioethics, Cognition, Scientific American, Behavioral and Brain Sciences, Journal of Research in Personality, Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, and Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. He authored Lack of Character: Personality and Moral Behavior (Cambridge, 2002), Talking to Our Selves: Reflection, Ignorance, and Agency (Oxford, 2015), and Character Trouble: Undisciplined Essays on Moral Agency and Personality (Oxford, 2022). With his colleagues in the Moral Psychology Research Group, he wrote and edited The Moral Psychology Handbook (Oxford, 2010) and, with Manuel Vargas, edited The Oxford Handbook of Moral Psychology (2022). Doris has been awarded fellowships from Michigan’s Institute for the Humanities; Princeton’s University Center for Human Values (twice); the National Humanities Center (twice); the American Council of Learned Societies; the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences; the National Endowment for the Humanities (3 times); and is a winner of the Society for Philosophy and Psychology’s Stanton Prize for excellence in interdisciplinary research. His pedagogy has been recognized with awards at both the undergraduate and graduate level.

Jesse Graham received his PhD (Psychology) from the University of Virginia in 2010, a MA (Religious Studies) from Harvard University in 2002, and a BS (Psychology) from the University of Chicago in 1998. He is the George S. Eccles Chair in Business Ethics and Professor of Management at the Eccles School of Business, University of Utah. His research interests are in the moral, ideological, and religious convictions that cause so much conflict and yet provide so much meaning to people’s lives. He is particularly interested in how ideological and moral values shape behavior outside of conscious awareness, and in how these effects vary across individuals and cultures. The Google Scholar page for Professor Graham can be found here.

Joshua D. Greene is Professor of Psychology and a member of the Center for Brain Science faculty at Harvard University. Originally trained as a philosopher, Greene began his scientific career with behavioral and neuroscientific research on moral judgment, focusing on the interplay between emotion and reason in moral dilemmas. His current social scientific research examines strategies for improved social decision-making, reducing intergroup/political animosity, and advancing effective altruism. His current neuroscientific research aims to understand the “language of thought”, how the brain combines concepts to form complex ideas. He is the author of Moral Tribes: Emotion, Reason, and the Gap Between Us and Them. The Google Scholar page for Professor Greene can be found here.

J. Kiley Hamlin is Professor of Developmental Psychology at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, BC, Canada, where she holds a Tier II Canada Research Chair in Developmental Psychology. She received her PhD from Yale University in 2010. Her work focuses on the roots of social and moral evaluation in infancy, wherein she has documented that preverbal infants prefer those who help versus hinder others in their unfulfilled goals as early as 3 months after birth. She has received several awards for her work to date, including the Janet Taylor Spence Award for Transformational Early Career Contributions to Psychological Science from the Association for Psychological Science, the Stanton Prize from the Society for Philosophy and Psychology, and a Killam Research Prize. The Google Scholar page for Professor Hamlin can be found here.

Dan Kelly is Professor of Philosophy at Purdue University. His research focuses on issues at the intersection of philosophy of mind and cognitive science, moral theory, and evolution. He turned his dissertation into a book on the genetic and cultural evolution of disgust called Yuck! The Nature and Moral Significance of Disgust, and has published on a range of topics that include moral judgment, moral progress, climate change, social norms and norm-guided activity, the psychology of group membership, racial cognition, implicit bias and responsibility, cross-cultural diversity, and David Foster Wallace and free will. Kelly was recently a visiting scholar in the Culture, Cognition, and Coevolution Lab at Harvard University, and has been a fellow at Holland College at KU Leuven and at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University. Much of Kelly's recent work has been exploring ways to apply the insights of the cognitive, behavioral, and evolutionary sciences to social issues like climate change, misinformation and polarization, and systemic injustice. He is currently co-authoring a public-facing book that explores how those insights can be used to integrate individual and structural approaches to social change. The Google Scholar page for Professor Kelly can be found here.

Melissa Koenig is Professor of Developmental Psychology at the Institute for Child Development at the University of Minnesota. For the past 20 years, her research has focused on the factors that constrain and support social learning in infants, children and adults. She has published over 60 peer-reviewed papers that cover various aspects of trust, social learning, memory, language and cognitive development in children.  As a first-generation college student, she leads a collaborative lab, supports students’ navigation of the hidden curriculum of academia and supports under-represented students on their own unique trajectory. Her lab group does work that is deeply collaborative, interdisciplinary, multi-method with a cultural lens and is dedicated to doing impactful work that moves the fields of psychology and philosophy forward. The Google Scholar page for Professor Koenig can be found here.  

Victor Kumar is Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Mind and Morality Lab at Boston University. He works mainly on human evolution, moral psychology, and social change. His book with Richmond Campbell, A Better Ape, was published by Oxford University Press in 2022. The Google Scholar page for Professor Kumar can be found here.

Tamar Kushnir is a Professor in the Department of Psychology & Neuroscience at Duke University, and the director of the Early Childhood Cognition Laboratory. She received her M.A. in Statistics and Ph.D. in Cognitive Psychology from the University of California, Berkeley, and was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Michigan, and was previously on the faculty in the Department of Human Development at Cornell University. Kushnir's research examines learning and conceptual change in young children with a focus on social learning and social cognition. Her work is motivated by a long-standing curiosity about the developing mind, and in particular by how children learn about themselves and others from actively exploring the world around them. Research topics include: mechanisms of causal learning, the developmental origins of our beliefs in free will and agency, cultural influences on early social and moral beliefs, normative reasoning, and epistemic trust, and the role of imagination in social cognition, motivation and decision making. The Google Scholar page for Professor Kushnir can be found here.

Adam Lerner is currently Post-doctoral Associate in the Center for Population-Level Bioethics at Rutgers University. Previously, he was Lecturer in the Philosophy Department at Princeton University and Assistant Professor/Faculty Fellow in the Center for Bioethics at New York University. He earned his PhD in the Philosophy Department at Princeton University in 2018. In his dissertation, he argued that empathy has a crucial role to play in moral inquiry, and that appreciating this can help us make progress on debates about the strength of our obligations to reduce animal suffering and extreme poverty. He is currently working on topics at the intersection of moral psychology and population ethics, animal ethics, environmental ethics, and metaethics.

Edouard Machery is Distinguished Professor in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science and the Director of the Center for Philosophy of Science at the University of Pittsburgh. His research focuses on the philosophical issues raised by psychology and cognitive neuroscience, moral psychology, metaphilosophy, the foundation of statistics, and the methods of psychology and cognitive neuroscience. He is also involved in the development of experimental philosophy. He has published more than 150 articles and chapters on these topics in philosophical and scientific venues, and he is the author of Doing without Concepts (OUP, 2009) and Philosophy Within Its Proper Bounds (OUP, 2017) as well as the editor of The Oxford Handbook of Compositionality (OUP, 2012), La Philosophie Expérimentale (Vuibert, 2012), Arguing about Human Nature (Routledge, 2013), and Current Controversies in Experimental Philosophy (Routledge, 2014). He has been awarded many awards including the Scots Philosophical Association Centenary Fellowship at the University of Edinburgh in 2016, a Humboldt Research Award in 2017, a Mercator Fellowship in 2017, the Chancellor’s Distinguished Research Award (senior category) by the University of Pittsburgh in 2018, and he has been elected President of the Society for Philosophy and Psychology for 2023-2024. The Google Scholar page for Professor Machery can be found here.

Ron Mallon is Chair of the Department of Philosophy and Director of the Philosophy-Neuroscience-Psychology program at Washington University.  His current research interests lie at the intersection of culture and the human mind, and include social constructionist claims, race and racial cognition, and moral psychology.  He is the author of The Construction of Human Kinds (OUP 2016), and many articles and chapters. The Google Scholar for Professor Mallon can be found here.

Alfred R. Mele is the William H. and Lucyle T. Werkmeister Professor of Philosophy at Florida State University. He is the author of thirteen books and over 250 articles and editor of seven books. He is past director of two multi-million-dollar, interdisciplinary projects: the Big Questions in Free Will project (2010-13) and the Philosophy and Science of Self-Control project (2014-17). His latest book is Free Will: An Opinionated Guide (Oxford University Press, 2022). The Google Scholar page for Professor Mele can be found here.

Maria Merritt is a Core Faculty member of the Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics and Associate Professor in the Department of International Health at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in Baltimore, Maryland, USA, with a secondary appointment in the Department of Philosophy at the Johns Hopkins Krieger School of Arts and Sciences. She earned her B.S. in Biology from Wake Forest University, her B.A. in Philosophy and Modern Languages from the University of Oxford, and her Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of California, Berkeley. Merritt completed post-doctoral training in the Department of Bioethics at the National Institutes of Health. Before joining the Johns Hopkins faculty, she taught philosophy at the College of William and Mary and held a Faculty Fellowship at the Edmond & Lily Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard University. Merritt’s research interests include global health ethics and international research ethics in addition to moral philosophy and moral psychology. She is increasingly interested in issues of public health ethics in climate change mitigation efforts, particularly in decarbonizing health systems and health care. The Google Scholar page for Professor Merritt can be found here.

John Mikhail is the Carroll Professor of Jurisprudence at Georgetown University Law Center.  He teaches and writes on a variety of topics, including constitutional law, moral psychology, moral and legal theory, cognitive science, legal history, criminal law, torts, international law, and human rights. He is the author of Elements of Moral Cognition: Rawls’ Linguistic Analogy and the Cognitive Science of Moral and Legal Judgment (Cambridge University Press, 2011; paperback edition, 2013) and over fifty articles, chapters, essays, and reviews in peer-edited journals, law reviews, and anthologies, including Ethics, Trends in Cognitive Sciences, Philosophical Review, Psychology of Learning and Motivation, Emotion Review, Jerusalem Review of Legal Studies, Law and History Review, Stanford Law Review, Virginia Law Review, and Georgetown Law Journal. He holds secondary appointments in Georgetown’s Philosophy Department and Interdisciplinary Program in Cognitive Science. The Google Scholar page for Professor Mikhail can be found here.

Thomas Nadelhoffer is Associate Professor of Philosophy at College of Charleston. He is also an affiliate member of the Department of Psychology and a roster faculty member in the Neuroscience Program. His main areas of research are the philosophy of mind (especially free will), moral psychology, and applied ethics (especially the philosophy of punishment). He has published widely in journals of philosophy, cognitive science, and psychology. He has also edited Moral Psychology: Classical and Contemporary Readings (Wiley-Blackwell, 2010, with Eddy Nahmias and Shaun Nichols); The Future of Punishment (Oxford University Press, 2013); Neurointerventions and the Law: Regulating Human Mental Capacity (Oxford University Press, 2020, with Nicole Vincent and Allan McCay); and Advances in Experimental Philosophy of Free Will and Responsibility (Bloomsbury Academic, 2022, with Andrew Monroe). Most recently, he founded The Agency and Responsibility Research Group, which hosts online talks by leading figures working on free will, moral responsibility, and related concepts. The Google Scholar page for Professor Nadelhoffer can be found here.

Eddy Nahmias is Professor of Philosophy and an associate member of the Neuroscience Institute at Georgia State University, where he has initiated programs in neurophilosophy and neuroethics. His research is devoted to the study of human agency: what it is, how it is possible, and how it accords with scientific accounts of human nature. His primary focus is the free will debate. He is co-editor of Moral Psychology: Historical and Contemporary Readings. The Google Scholar page for Professor Nahmias can be found here.

Laura Niemi is Assistant Professor of Psychology at Cornell University in the College of Arts and Sciences; cross-appointed in the Dyson School, at the SC Johnson College of Business. She is a member of the Social and Personality Psychology, Cognitive Science, and Management fields; and is an affiliate of the Philosophy Department. Laura earned her Ph.D in 2015 from Boston College, advised by Liane Young. She completed two postdoctoral research fellowships at Harvard, on the psycholinguistics of morality, with co-PIs Steven Pinker and Jesse Snedeker (NSF funded) and Duke, in the philosophy and cognitive neuroscience of social epistemology, with advisors Walter Sinnott-Armstrong and Felipe De Brigard (Templeton/Duke funded). Laura was Assistant Professor at University of Toronto before moving her Applied Moral Psychology lab to Cornell in 2020. Laura’s research uses multiple methods including text analyses, experiments, surveys, and neuroscience, typically in collaboration with philosophers and other psychologists. Her basic research contributes to literatures on causal cognition, moral judgment, and the interface of language and moral cognition. Her applied research addresses ethical issues and social problems, including victim blame, stigma, and partisan biases in causal and numerical cognition. Laura is committed to supporting the growth of interdisciplinary, empirical study of morality in undergraduate and graduate education, as well as public engagement in the scientific study of moral psychology. The Google Scholar page for Professor Neimi can be found here.

Shaun Nichols is Professor of Philosophy and Director of Cognitive Science at Cornell University. His research concerns the psychological underpinnings of philosophical thought. He is the author of Sentimental Rules (Oxford University Press), Bound: Essays on Free Will and Moral Responsibility (OUP), and Rational Rules (OUP), as well as several articles in academic journals in philosophy and psychology. The Google Scholar page for Professor Nichols can be found here.

Lauren Olin is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Missouri - St. Louis. Her work is focused on issues at the intersection of the philosophy of mind and cognitive science, with special emphasis on the philosophy of humor, the philosophy of perception, and the philosophy of psychiatry.

Jonathan S. Phillips is Assistant Professor at Dartmouth in the Program in Cognitive Science and an Affiliated Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy and Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences. Before starting at Dartmouth, he was a postdoctoral fellow in the Psychology Department at Harvard University. He completed his Ph.D. in philosophy and psychology at Yale in 2015. His research falls in the intersection of psychology, philosophy, and linguistics, and fits most easily within the broader umbrella of cognitive science. His lab’s research focuses on the psychological representation of possibilities, moral judgment, causal reasoning, semantics, and theory of mind. In studying these aspects of cognition and their intersection, we draw on tools from philosophy, psychology, linguistics, and computer science. The Google Scholar page for Professor Phillips can be found here.

Alexandra Plakias is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Hamilton College. Her research focuses on metaethics and moral psychology. She also works on food and philosophy. She is currently working on a book about awkwardness, under contract with Oxford University Press.  Her first book, Thinking Through Food, is an introduction to the ethics, epistemology, metaphysics, and aesthetics of food.  The Google Scholar page for Professor Plakias can be found here.

Adina Roskies is the Helman Family Distinguished Professor at Dartmouth College, Professor of Philosophy and, an affiliate of the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, and former chair of Cognitive Science. She received a Ph.D from the University of California, San Diego in Neuroscience and Cognitive Science in 1995, a Ph.D. from MIT in philosophy in 2004, and an M.S.L. from Yale Law School in 2014. Prior to her work in philosophy she held a postdoctoral fellowship in cognitive neuroimaging at Washington University with Steven Petersen and Marcus Raichle, and from 1997-1999 was Senior Editor of the neuroscience journal Neuron. Dr. Roskies has received numerous awards and fellowships, including the Stanton Prize from the Society for Philosophy and Psychology, The Neuroethics Prize from the Italian Society of Neuroethics, a Mellon New Directions fellowship, and fellowships from the Princeton Center for Human Values and the University of Pittsburgh’s Center for Philosophy of Science. She was recently awarded grants from the NIH through the BRAIN Initiative, and the Templeton Foundation. Dr. Roskies’ research interests lie at the intersection of philosophy and neuroscience, and include philosophy of mind, philosophy of science, and ethics. She has coauthored a book with Stephen Morse, A Primer on Criminal Law and Neuroscience. The Google Scholar page for Professor Roskies can be found here.

Joshua Rottman is Associate Professor of Psychology and Scientific & Philosophical Studies of Mind at Franklin & Marshall College, where he directs the Developing Moral Values Lab. During the 2022–2023 academic year, he is an Academic Visitor at Oxford University's Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics. Josh received a B.A. in Cognitive Science from Vassar College in 2008 and a Ph.D. in Psychology from Boston University in 2015. His interdisciplinary research investigates the cognitive science of moral boundaries, primarily through experimental studies with children and adults. He has published in a range of peer-reviewed journals, including Psychological Science and Cognition, and he writes popular pieces for Psychology Today. His work has also been featured in National Geographic, The Atlantic, and Through the Wormhole with Morgan Freeman. The Google Scholar page for Professor Rottman can be found here.

Tim Schroeder received his B.A. from the University of Lethbridge and his Ph.D. from Stanford University. After starting his career at the University of Manitoba and then a move to Ohio State, he is now a Professor of Philosophy at Rice University. He works on the philosophy of mind and ethics, and on their intersection in various topics in moral psychology: desire, pleasure, moral motivation, addiction, dopamine, love, blameworthiness, virtue, deliberation, Tourette syndrome, and Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder. Tim is the author of Three Faces of Desire (Oxford 2004) and, with Nomy Arpaly, In Praise of Desire (Oxford 2014). He is currently working on articulating the low-level "causal map" of how the human brain produces actions, on arguing that all action theorists need to respect the (limited but real) constraints imposed by such a map, and on figuring out his own preferred interpretation of that map. The Google Scholar page for Professor Schroeder can be found here.

David Shoemaker is a Professor in the Sage School of Philosophy at Cornell University. He works on agency and responsibility, moral emotions, personal identity, and humor. His solo-authored books include Responsibility from the Margins (OUP 2015), and Personal Identity and Ethics: A Brief Introduction (Broadview 2009), and he’s published over 60 papers in a variety of philosophical journals. He is an associated editor at Ethics, the editor of the series Oxford Studies in Agency and Responsibility, and the founder and ongoing organizer of the New Orleans Workshop on Agency and Responsibility (NOWAR). The Google Scholar page for Professor Shoemaker can be found here.

Walter Sinnott-Armstrong is Chauncey Stillman Professor of Practical Ethics in the Department of Philosophy and the Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University with secondary appointments in Duke’s Law School and Department of Psychology and Neuroscience. He has served as co-chair of the Board of Officers of the American Philosophical Association and co-director of the MacArthur Law and Neuroscience Project. He has published widely on ethics, empirical moral psychology and neuroscience, epistemology, informal logic, and philosophy of law, religion, and psychiatry. His current work focuses moral artificial intelligence, free will and moral responsibility, and various topics in moral psychology and brain science, including implicit moral attitudes, moral judgments of refugees, and moral narratives versus arguments. His most recent books are about how arguments can remedy political polarization and about scrupulosity (obsession with morality). He co-directs Summer Seminars in Neuroscience and Philosophy and co-teaches a MOOC, Think Again, with over 1,000,000 registered students. The Google Scholar page for Professor Sinnott-Armstrong can be found here.

Chandra Sripada is Professor of Philosophy and Psychiatry at the University of Michigan. He works on issues of mind and agency that lie at the intersection of philosophy and the behavioral and brain sciences. Recent work investigates mechanisms of decision, thought, and self-control, with the aim of understanding how emerging results from the sciences impact our picture of ourselves as free, responsible, and rational agents. The Google Scholar page for Professor Sripada can be found here.

Stephen Stich is Board of Governors Distinguished Professor of Philosophy and Cognitive Science at Rutgers University. Prior to joining the Rutgers faculty in 1989, he taught at the University of Michigan, the University of Maryland and the University of California, San Diego.  His publications include seven books, thirteen anthologies and over 200 articles.  He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a recipient of the Jean Nicod Prize, the first recipient of the Gittler Award for Outstanding Scholarly Contribution in the Philosophy of the Social Sciences, and a winner of the Lebowitz Prize for Philosophical Achievement and Contribution.  In the Spring of 2020, he was Laurance S. Rockefeller Visiting Professor for Distinguished Teaching at the Princeton University Center for Human Values.  Stich is co-PI on the Templeton funded Geography of Philosophy Project. The Google Scholar page for Professor Stich can be found here.

Nina Strohminger is Assistant Professor at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School, in the Department of Legal Studies and Business Ethics. Her research examines topics within behavioral ethics, including personal identity, emotion, and motivated cognition. The Google Scholar page for Professor Strohminger can be found here.

Valerie Tiberius is the Paul W. Frenzel Chair in Liberal Arts and Professor of Philosophy at the University of Minnesota.  Her work explores the ways in which philosophy and psychology can both contribute to the study of well-being and virtue.  She is the author of The Reflective Life: Living Wisely With Our Limits (Oxford 2008), Moral Psychology: A Contemporary Introduction (Routledge 2015), Well-Being as Value Fulfillment:  How We Can Help Others to Live Well (Oxford, 2018), and What Do You Want out of Life?: A Philosophical Guide to Figuring Out What Matters (Princeton University Press, 2023). She has published numerous articles on the topics of practical reasoning, prudential virtues, well-being, and the relationship between positive psychology and ethics, and has received grants from the Templeton Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities.  She served as President of the Central Division of the American Philosophical Association from 2016-17. The Google Scholar page for Professor Tiberius can be found here.

Kevin Tobia is Associate Professor of Law at Georgetown University Law Center and Associate Professor of Philosophy (by courtesy) at Georgetown University. He researches in areas including legal theory, legislation and statutory interpretation, torts, experimental philosophy, and experimental jurisprudence. Tobia received a B.A. in Philosophy, Mathematics, and Cognitive Science from Rutgers University; a B.Phil. (M.A.) from Oxford as an Ertegun Scholar in the Humanities; and a J.D. and Ph.D. from Yale. Professor Tobia’s scholarship has been awarded the Yale Law School Felix S. Cohen prize for legal philosophy and the AALS Section on Jurisprudence “Future Promise Award” for scholarship in legal philosophy. The Google Scholar page for Professor Tobia can be found here.

Manuel Vargas is Professor of Philosophy at the University of California San Diego. His work focuses on agency, free will, and moral responsibility, as well as topics in the history of Latin American philosophy.  He is the author of Building Better Beings: A Theory of Moral Responsibility, a co-author of Four Views on Free Will, and a co-editor of Rational and Social Agency: The Philosophy of Michael Bratman, and co-editor of The Oxford Handbook of Moral Psychology. The Google Scholar page for Professor Vargas can be found here.

Natalia Washington is Assistant Professor of Philosophy in the Philosophy Department at the University of Utah, specializing in philosophy of psychiatry, cognitive science, and mental health. Originally from Chicago’s south side, she completed my B.A. in Philosophy with honors in the major at the University of Wisconsin – Madison in 2010 and earned her PhD in philosophy at Purdue University in 2015 under the direction of Daniel Kelly. From Fall 2015 to Spring 2017 she was a McDonnell Postdoctoral Fellow in the Philosophy-Neuroscience-Psychology program at Washington University in Saint Louis, after which she spent a year working with renowned artificial intelligence platform Cyc, in Austin, Texas. Her research is situated within the scope of empirically informed philosophy of mind, psychology, and cognitive science. Using the conceptual and critical tools of philosophy, she seeks to understand how human minds are both shaped by and integrated with our physical and social environments. Ultimately, she believes that appreciation of these perspectives—what are sometimes called ‘externalist’ or ‘ecological’ viewpoints—and their normative implications can inform and improve human lives. As an ecologically-minded philosopher, she has had the opportunity to explore several interconnected research questions, including work on implicit racial biases and social cognition, culture and the construction of psychiatric diagnoses, as well as on agency and well-being.  The Google Scholar page for Professor Washington can be found here.

Monique Wonderly is Associate Professor of Philosophy at UC San Diego. Prior to her current appointment, she held a three-year position as the Harold T. Shapiro Postdoctoral Research Associate in Bioethics at the Princeton University Center for Human Values. Her current work spans three overlapping research areas: the nature of emotional attachment, psychopathology and moral agency, and responsibility and moral emotions. She has published in venues such as Ethics, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, and Philosophers’ Imprint. One of her recent papers on forgiveness was selected by The Philosopher’s Annual as one of the best papers published in philosophy in 2021. She is currently working on a manuscript project on the philosophy of emotional attachment. 

Liane Young is Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience at Boston College and director of the Morality Lab. Her research investigates social and moral cognition, with a focus on moral judgment and impression updating, using methods from social psychology and cognitive neuroscience, including fMRI and TMS. Young received her Ph.D. in psychology from Harvard University in 2008, and her B.A. in Philosophy from Harvard University in 2004. She is the recipient of the 2018 Psychonomic Society Early Career Award, 2017 APS Janet Taylor Spence Award, 2017 Sage Young Scholars Award (SPSP), and the 2016 Stanton Award from the Society for Philosophy and Psychology. She serves on the editorial boards of Psychological Science, Cognition, Cognitive Science, and Scientific Reports. The Google Scholar page for Professor Young can be found here.