Will Barnes
works with transformative philosophy from ancient through to contemporary cross-cultural settings. He has taught at 6 universities across three continents. His publications and research draw on Asian, American, and European religion, philosophy, art, and literature. His focus is on 20th Century Continental Philosophy, especially Ethical, Social, and Political Philosophy as well as Phenomenology, Existentialism, and Non-Western Philosophy, particularly Ethics, Phenomenology, Metaphysics, and Epistemology in the Indo-Tibetan Buddhist tradition. His research focuses on the intersection between the social and the psychic as they relate to violence and peace. He is the author of A Critique of Liberal Cynicism (forthcoming) which diagnoses and proposing a cure for a trauma-born rejection of liberal and progressive political values in popular and academic “left” culture. He currently teaches at The University of New Mexico, and New Mexico Highlands University.
Captain Hunter Cantrell
is an officer in the United States Army, assigned to the Department of English and Philosophy at the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York. He graduated from Georgia State University in Atlanta, Georgia with a ma in Philosophy. His primary interests include the ethics of emerging technology (primarily autonomous weapons systems), the ethics of toleration, and political philosophy (broadly construed). All of Captain Cantrell’s opinions are his alone and do not represent the United States Military Academy, the United States Army, nor the Department of Defense.
Robert Paul Churchill
served as Romeo Elton Professor of Moral and Natural Philosophy at George Washington University, where he also served as Chair of the Department of Philosophy, and Director of the Peace Studies Program. His published books include Becoming Logical; Democracy, Social Values and Public Policy (ed.); The Ethics of Liberal Democracy (ed.); Human Rights and Global Diversity; and most recently, Women in the Crossfire: Understanding and Ending Honor Killing, from Oxford University Press. He is also author of many articles and books chapters and is presently at work on two books: one on civil disobedience in a liberal democracy, and the other a defense of universal human rights that draws on cognitive science as well as evolutionary theory.
is a Professor of Foreign Languages and Philosophy at Fort Valley State University, USA. He is listed in 2000 Outstanding Scholars of the 21st Century. His numerous books and articles are in the fields of the philosophy of culture, political philosophy, and ethics. His recent publications include: The Quest for Change: From Domination to Dialogue (2016); “Philosophy of Hope” in Cosmopolitan Civility: Global-Local Reflections with Fred Dallmayr (2020); “Michel Foucault’s Theory of Practices of the Self and the Quest for a New Philosophical Anthropology” in Peace, Culture, and Violence (2018); “Zur Debatte über kulturelle Diversität und Interkulturalität in den USA und Kanada” in Zur Geschichte und Entwicklung der Interkulturellen Philosophie (2015). He edited and contributed to A World Beyond Global Disorder: The Courage to Hope (with Fred Dallmayr, 2017); Intercultural Dialogue: In Search of Harmony in Diversity (2016); Philosophy after Hiroshima (2010); Between Global Violence and Ethics of Peace: Philosophical Perspectives (2009).
Andrew Fiala
is Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Ethics Center at California State University, Fresno. Recent work includes: Seeking Common Ground: A Theist/Atheist Dialogue (2021—with Peter Admirand), Nonviolence: A Quick Immersion (2020), and Transformative Pacifism (2018). Fiala is co-author of a widely used textbook, Ethics: Theory and Contemporary Issues with co-author Barbara MacKinnon (Cengage), now in its 9th edition. Fiala is a past President of Concerned Philosophers for Peace. He writes a weekly column on religion, politics, and ethics for the Fresno Bee. For more information:
Andrew Fitz-Gibbon
is a suny Distinguished Service Professor, Professor of Philosophy and Chair of the Philosophy Department at the State University of New York College at Cortland, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. He earned his PhD from Newcastle University, United Kingdom. His academic interests are in the areas of ethics, nonviolence, conflict resolution, pluralism and pragmatism. He is the author, co-author, or editor of fifteen books, numerous book chapters, and articles in peer-reviewed journals such as Social Philosophy Today, The Journal for Peace and Justice Studies, The Acorn, and Philosophical Practice. He is an Associate Editor, Brill Academic Publishers, where he edits the vibs Social Philosophy Series. He is a fellow of the American Philosophical Practitioners Association, certified in client counseling. He is abbot of the Lindisfarne
William Gay
is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. Within Concerned Philosophers for Peace (cpp), he has served as President (1993), Executive Director (1997–1999), Editor of Concerned Philosophers for Peace Newsletter (1987–2002), and Editor of cpp’s book series “Philosophy of Peace” (2002–2012). He has published seven books—The Nuclear Arms Race (1987), On the Eve of the 21st Century (1994), Capitalism with a Human Face (1996), Global Studies Encyclopedia (2003), Democracy and the Quest for Justice (2004), Global Studies Encyclopedic Dictionary (2014), and Between Past Orthodoxies and the Future of Globalization (2016)—and over 100 journal articles and book chapters on issues of violence, war, peace, and justice from the perspectives of philosophy of language and political philosophy. He also serves on the editorial boards of the journals Philosophy and Social Criticism, The Age of Globalization, Journal of Globalization Studies, and The Acorn.
Abigail Gosselin
is a Professor in the Department of Philosophy at Regis University in Denver, Colorado. She is the author of Mental Patient: Psychiatric Ethics from a Patient’s Perspective (mit Press, forthcoming), Humanizing Mental Illness: Enhancing Agency through Social Interaction (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2021), and Global Poverty and Individual Responsibility (Lexington, 2009). In addition, she has published numerous papers in social philosophy, including papers on mental illness stigma, injustices in the medicalization of mental disorders, the ethics of philosophizing from first person experience, narrative ethics, and human rights. Dr. Gosselin teaches an array of courses in social philosophy. She has served as chair of her department and has served on many college committees, including the Committee on Rank and Tenure.
Fuat Gürsözlü
is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Loyola University Maryland. He has written extensively on democracy, peace, and pluralism. He is the editor of Peace, Culture, and Violence (Brill, 2018). Currently, he is completing a book manuscript on agonistic democracy with a particular focus on how the agonistic perspective changes the way we understand some key elements of democracy such as protest, parties, and peace.
is Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Center for Legal Studies at the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs. Her research focuses on moral and political philosophy, particularly issues in war and peace, self- and other-defense, international relations, protest, and feminism. She is the author of War Refugees: Risk, Justice, and Moral Responsibility (Lexington, 2019), as well as numerous articles, and is also the Executive Director of Concerned Philosophers for Peace (cpp), the largest, most active organization of professional philosophers in North America involved in the analysis of the causes of war and prospects for peace.
Sanjay Lal
is senior lecturer of philosophy at Clayton State University in Morrow, ga. He is also treasurer of the Concerned Philosophers for Peace and an associate editor of The Acorn: Philosophical Studies in Pacifism and Nonviolence. In addition to the book Gandhi’s Thought and Liberal Democracy (Lexington, 2019), Lal has published many articles related to non-violence and peace philosophy. His work has appeared in, among other journals, Asian Philosophy, Philosophy in the Contemporary World, and The Heythrop Journal.
Greg Moses
is editor of The Acorn: Philosophical Studies in Pacifism and Nonviolence and author of Revolution of Conscience: Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Philosophy of Nonviolence. He has also authored journal articles or book chapters on the peace philosophies of Charles Peirce, Jane Addams, Alain Locke, and James Farmer, Sr. He has been honored by Philosophy Born of Struggle with the William R. Jones award for lifetime contributions to Africana Philosophy. He teaches nonviolence philosophy at Texas State University.
Casey Rentmeester
is the Director of General Education and Associate Professor of Philosophy at Bellin College in Green Bay, Wisconsin, USA. He is author of the book Heidegger and the Environment (2016), co-editor of the book Heidegger and Music (2021), and author of numerous peer-reviewed articles and book chapters on environmental philosophy, medical ethics, and social and political philosophy. He lives with his wife and three children in De Pere, Wisconsin, one of whom is named Amelia Irene, meaning “work for peace.”
is an associate professor of Philosophy and program coordinator for Philosophy and Religion at the University of Southern Mississippi. She received her Ph.D. from Tulane University. Among her publications, Smithka has co-edited three books, two with Courtland Lewis, Doctor Who and Philosophy: Bigger on the Inside and More Doctor Who and Philosophy: Regeneration Time and one with Alison Bailey, Community, Diversity and Difference: Implications for Peace. Her more recent publications focus on mind viruses, post-truth, and violence. Her general research interests include philosophy of science, in particular, philosophy of biology primarily focusing on the nature of biological species and homeostasis, namely as homeostatic property cluster kinds; social/political philosophy, particularly issues in peace and just-war theory; and the intersections between popular culture and philosophy.
Anna Taft
is Founding Director of The Tandana Foundation, a non-profit organization dedicated to supporting the achievement of community goals and addressing global inequalities through caring intercultural relationships that embody mutual respect and responsibility. For fifteen years, she has led this organization in partnerships with rural communities in Ecuador and Mali on initiatives that respond to community priorities. She earned a bachelor’s degree from Whitman College with honors in Politics and a minor in environmental studies and a Master of Arts in Liberal Studies from Skidmore College with a focus on Morality in a Pluralistic World.