Past Contributing Subject Editors
- Joseph Raz, served Summer 1999–Fall 2007 2007.
- Joseph joined Liam Murphy as co-editor in 1999 (replacing Ronald Dworkin), and the two of them subsequently vetted jointly all the primary entries in the philosophy of law section of the SEP. These include: Legal Rights, Theories of Contracts, Causation in the Law, Theories of Criminal Law, Legal Punishment, The Nature of Law, The Pure Theory of Law, The Limits of Law, Naturalism in Legal Philosophy, Legal Realisms, Legal Positivism, Legal Obligation and Authority, Law and Language, Constitutionalism, Interpretation and Coherence in Legal Reasoning, The Economic Analysis of Law, Legal Principles of Restitution, Legal Philosophy: Its Aims and Methods, Interpretivist Theories of Law, Precedent and Analogy in Legal Reasoning, Law and Ideology, Theories of Tort Law, Natural Law Theories, The Rule of Law and Procedural Fairness, Property, and The Legal Concept of Evidence.
- Linda Zagzebski, served Spring 2001–Spring 2007.
- Linda played an important and influential role in developing the section on philosophy of religion in the SEP. She commissioned and refereed entries with the following titles: Afterlife, Concepts of God, Cosmological Argument, Divine Freedom, Emotions in the Christian Tradition, Eternity, Omnipresence, Philosophy of Religion, Pragmatic Arguments for Belief in God, Religion and Morality, Religion and Science, and Teleological Arguments for God's Existence. It will be hard to replace her.
- Lewis Ricardo Gordon, served 2003–2007.
- Lewis came on board in 2003 to help Lucius Outlaw with the SEP section on African and African-American Philosophy. We'd like to thank him for the time he spent consulting with Tommy Lott, who replaced Lucius.
- Sahotra Sarkar, served 2000–2006.
- Sahotra played a seminal role in developing our philosophy of biology section. He refereed the entries on biodiversity, evolutionary genetics, gene, heredity and heritability, population genetics, the biological notion of self, and the genotype/phenotype distinction. We are indebted to him for his wide knowledge in the field and for his advice on how to develop the subject.
- Huw Price, served 1996–2006.
- Huw was the first philosopher from "down under" to join the SEP, and in the first years of the project, he helped to recruit talented and web-aware Australian philosophers. He subsequently became a subject editor for 20th century analytic philosophy, and refereed the entries on Wilfrid Sellars, Donald Davidson, the experience and perception of time, thermodynamic asymmetry in time, counterfactual theories of causation, the Vienna Circle, and others. Huw argued early on that we should be flexible about entry length so as to allow entries to go into more depth than in other reference works, and this had a significant affect on the development of the SEP.
- Andrew Irvine, served 1995–2006.
- Andrew was a visitor to CSLI when the SEP project started. He contributed some of the earliest entries in the SEP (Russell, Whitehead, Principia Mathematica, Russell's Paradox) and in the first years of the SEP, helped to bring talented Canadian philosophers who were web-aware into the project. He subsequently became a co-editor for 20th century analytic philosophy, and refereed the entries on Feyerabend, logical constructions, Jacques Maritain, Karl Popper, historicist theories of rationality, Richard Rorty, L.E.J. Brouwer, G.E. Moore, Isaiah Berlin, and Ludwig Wittgenstein. We are grateful to Andrew for his many years of service and both steady and sound advice.
- David Velleman, served 1998–2005.
- David co-edited the entries on the philosophy of action, and to that end, not only helped to develop the basic list of topics in this subject area but also helped us to identify prospective authors for those topics. He set high standards and his comments helped shaped the entries on action and personal autonomy.
- Robert Pippin, served 1999–2005.
- Robert co-edited the entries on 19th century philosophy, focusing principally on those relating to 19th century Continental Philosophy. He refereed the entries on Nietzsche, Kierkegaard, Hegel, Schleiermacher, Fichte, Reinhold, Schelling, Jacobi, Bauer, etc. We are in his debt for the high standards he maintained in this section.
- Dan Brock, served 1999–2005.
- Dan was the first editor in Applied Ethics, responsible for the subspecialty of Biomedical Ethics. He refereed the entries on voluntary euthanasia, parenthood, philosophy for children, philosophy of childhood, suicide, and mental illness.
- Sally Haslanger, served 1997–2005.
- Sally was the founding subject editor for entries on Feminist Philosophy. She helped to organize the entries so that they would fall into the categories of "approaches to feminism", "feminist interventions", and "topics in feminism". In addition, she refereed the first group of entries on feminism that came online.
- Margaret Atherton and David Owen, served from 1999 to 2004.
- Margaret and David together laid a solid basis for the entries on 18th century philosophy, commissioning and refereeing entries on all the major figures. We very much appreciate their efforts and we look forward to building on the foundation they laid.
- Alan Code, served 1996–2004.
- Alan was the founding subject editor for entries on Aristotle, and as such, served as a co-editor for entries on ancient philosophy. He commissioned and refereed the entries on Aristotle's ethics, logic, mathematics, metaphysics, political theory, psychology, and rhetoric.
- Nicholas Jolley, served 2000–2004.
- During Nick's three-year tenure, he not only commissioned but also approved for publication a number of important articles in his subject area; in addition to the more specialized articles, there are now general essays on such central figures as Locke, Malebranche, and Spinoza.
- Lucius Outlaw, served 2003–2004.
- Lucius made the first sketch of the list of entries for the section on African and African-American Philosophy in the SEP. Unfortunately, onerous administrative duties made it difficult for him to see his conception brought to fruition.
- Alasdair Urquhart, served 1998–2003.
- Alasdair Urquhart was the founding subject editor for entries on Non-Classical Logic. Alasdair was diligent in refereeing such entries as the ones on modal logic, intuitionistic logic, temporal logic, relevance logic, paraconsistent logic, provability logic, many-valued logic, infinitary logic, substructural logics, and category theory.
- John Burgess, served 1997–2003.
- John Burgess was the founding subject editor for entries on Classical Logic. John helped to organize the entries for this subject, refereed the entries on classical logic, first-order model theory, infinitary logic, model theory, set theory, and the mathematics of Boolean algebra.
- Peter Simons, served 1997–2001.
- Originally a consulting editor, and then a founding subject editor for metaphysics at the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Peter served from April 1997 to December 2001, primarily helping to create the list of 80 topics in Metaphysics, and offering advice and suggestions about authors. We have benefited a lot from the time, effort and insight he gave to the encyclopedia.
- Rob Clifton (b. 1964, d. 2002), served 1997–2000.
- Founding subject editor for philosophy of physics at the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. He served from April 1997 to December 2000, specializing in entries on quantum theory. Rob not only organized the topics on quantum theory, but also commissioned approximately 25 entries. Rob was one of the first philosophers to recognize the worth of the Encyclopedia and he helped set our exacting editorial standards. Rob's energy and example attracted the best scholars to the Editorial Board. His love of philosophy and commitment to rigor of thought inspired every author he commissioned and is reflected in every article he edited.