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Subject | Editor (Affiliation) |
Action, Philosophy of | David Velleman (University of Michigan) John M. Fischer (University of California/Riverside) |
Aesthetics | Ted Cohen (University of Chicago) |
African and African-American Philosophy | Lucius Outlaw (Haverford College) |
Ancient Philosophy | John Cooper (Princeton University) |
Aristotle | Alan Code (University of California, Berkeley) |
Plato | Richard Kraut (Northwestern University) |
Biology, Philosophy of | Paul Griffiths (University of Pittsburgh) Sahotra Sarkar (University of Texas/Austin) |
Chinese Philosophy | Kwong-Loi Shun (University of California/Berkeley) Chad Hansen (University of Hong-Kong) |
Cognitive Science, Philosophy of | Barbara Von Eckardt (University of Nebraska/Lincoln) |
Epistemology | Laurence BonJour (University of Washington/Seattle) |
Ethics | |
Normative | Walter Sinnott-Armstrong (Dartmouth College) Julia Driver (Dartmouth College) David Brink (U. California/San Diego) |
History of | Stephen Darwall (University of Michigan) |
Metaethics | David Copp (Bowling Green State University) |
Applied | |
Bioethics | Dan Brock (Brown University) |
Computers and Ethics | Helen Nissenbaum (Princeton University) |
Feminism | Sally Haslanger (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Nancy Tuana (University of Oregon) |
Indian and Tibetan Philosophy | Mark Siderits (Illinois State University) Richard Hayes (McGill University) Karl Potter (University of Washington/Seattle) |
Inductive Logic and Decision Theory | Brian Skyrms (University of California/Irvine) James Joyce (University of Michigan) |
Japanese Philosophy | Thomas Kasulis (Ohio State University) |
Kant | Paul Guyer (University of Pennsylvania) |
Language, Philosophy of | Kenneth Taylor (Stanford University) Timothy Williamson (University of Oxford) |
Law, Philosophy of | Joseph Raz (University of Oxford) Liam Murphy (New York University) |
Linguistics, Philosophy of | |
Logic | John Burgess (Princeton University) |
Non-Classical Logic | Alasdair Urquhart (University of Toronto) |
Logic, Philosophy of | John Etchemendy (Stanford University) Greg Restall (Macquarie University) |
Medieval Philosophy | Paul Vincent Spade (Indiana University/Bloomington) Gyula Klima (Fordham University) Jack Zupko (Emory University) |
Metaphysics | Peter Simons (University of Leeds) Gideon Rosen (Princeton University) Stephen Yablo (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Dean Zimmerman (Syracuse University) Penelope Mackie (University of Birmingham) |
Mind, Philosophy of | David Chalmers (University of Arizona) |
Physics, Philosophy of | |
Quantum Mechanics | Guido Bacciagaluppi (University of California/Berkeley) |
Spacetime | John D. Norton (University of Pittsburgh) |
Religion, Philosophy of | Edward Wierenga (University of Rochester) Linda Zagzebski (University of Oklahoma) |
Renaissance and 16th Century Philosophy |
Brian Copenhaver (UCLA) Dennis Des Chene (Emory University) |
Science, Philosophy of | Phillip Kitcher (Columbia University) Chris Swoyer (University of Oklahoma) |
Social and Political Philosophy | Thomas Pogge (Columbia University) Simone Chambers (University of Colorado) Joshua Cohen (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Samuel Freeman (University of Pennsylvania) |
17th Century Philosophy | Alan Nelson (University of California/Irvine) Nicholas Jolley (University of California/Irvine) |
18th Century Philosophy | Margaret Atherton (University of Wisconsin/Milwaukee) David Owen (University of Arizona) |
19th Century Philosophy | Allen Wood (Stanford University) |
Continental Philosophy | Robert Pippin (University of Chicago) |
20th Century Philosophy | Andrew Irvine (University of British Columbia/Vancouver) Fred Kroon (University of Auckland) Huw Price (University of Sydney) |
Continental Philosophy | Dagfinn Føllesdal (University of Oslo/Stanford University) Thomas Flynn (Emory University) |
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