Notes on Contributors
Akeel Bilgrami
is Sidney Morgenbesser Professor of Philosophy at Columbia University. His publications include Belief and Meaning (1992) and Self-Knowledge and Resentment (2006). His current extended book length project is on the relationship between agency and value and its relevance for moral realism.
Annalisa Coliva
is Chancellor Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of California, Irvine. She has published widely in epistemology, including the epistemology of the mind, and in the history of analytic philosophy. She is editor-in-chief of the Journal for the History of Analytical Philosophy.
Benjamin De Mesel
is Assistant Professor at RIPPLE (Research in Political Philosophy and Ethics Leuven), Institute of Philosophy, KU Leuven, Belgium. He is the author of The Later Wittgenstein and Moral Philosophy (2018) and co-editor, with Sybren Heyndels and Audun Bengtson, of P. F. Strawson and his Philosophical Legacy (2024).
Hans-Johann Glock
is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Zurich, Senior Advisor for the NCCR ‘Evolving Language’ project, and a recipient of an Alexander von Humboldt Research Prize. He has published widely in the philosophy of mind, the philosophy of language, and the history of analytic philosophy. A Festschrift in his honour, Beyond Wittgenstein, appeared in 2023, and a collection of his essays on Wittgenstein, Normativity, Meaning and Philosophy, appeared in 2024.
Pamela Hieronymi
is a Professor of Philosophy at UCLA, working at the intersection of ethics, philosophy of mind, and philosophy of action. In 2024 she delivered the Gifford Lectures, Minds Matter, which aim to unwind the problem of free will and moral responsibility. Hieronymi also served as a consultant for NBC’s sitcom, The Good Place.
Paul Horwich
is Professor of Philosophy at New York University. He was educated at the University of Oxford and Cornell University, and has held positions at MIT, University College London, and the City University of New York. His publications include Probability and Evidence (1982), Asymmetries in Time (1987), Truth—Meaning—Reality (2010), and Wittgenstein’s Meta-Philosophy (2012).
Penelope Maddy
is Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the University of California, Irvine. Her work begins and ends in the philosophy and foundations of set theory, extending in between to the philosophy of mathematics and logic, naturalism and philosophical method, scepticism, and the history of analytic philosophy (Moore, Wittgenstein, and Austin).
Peter Millican
is Gilbert Ryle Fellow and Professor of Philosophy at Hertford College, Oxford, and Professor of Philosophy at the National University of Singapore. He edited Hume Studies from 2005–10, has published more than 50 papers on Humean topics, and created www.davidhume.org. He has also worked extensively on topics at the interface between Philosophy and AI.
Duncan Pritchard
is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Center for Knowledge, Technology & Society at the University of California, Irvine. His books include Epistemic Luck (2005), The Nature and Value of Knowledge (co-authored, 2010), Epistemological Disjunctivism (2012), Epistemic Angst (2015), Scepticism: A Very Short Introduction (2019), and Wittgenstein on Knowledge and Certainty (co-authored, 2024).
Carol Rovane
is Violin Family Professor of Philosophy at Columbia University. She is author of Bounds of Agency: An Essay in Revisionary Metaphysics, and The Metaphysics and Ethics of Relativism.
Genia Schönbaumsfeld
is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Southampton. She is the author of A Confusion of the Spheres: Kierkegaard and Wittgenstein on Philosophy and Religion (2007), The Illusion of Doubt (2016), and Wittgenstein on Religious Belief (2023). She was recently awarded a €2.5m ERC Advanced Grant for her project ‘The Ethics of Doubt—Kierkegaard, Scepticism and Conspiracy Theory’.
Severin Schroeder
is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Reading. He has written five books on Wittgenstein: Wittgenstein: The Way Out of the Fly Bottle (2006), Wittgenstein on Mathematics (2021), Language, Mind, and Value: Essays on Wittgenstein (2024), Das Privatsprachen-Argument (1998), and Wittgenstein Lesen (2009). He is the editor of Wittgenstein and Contemporary Philosophy of Mind (2001) and Philosophy of Literature (2010).
Ernest Sosa
is Board of Governors Professor at Rutgers University. His publications include Knowledge in Perspective (1991), A Virtue Epistemology (2007), Reflective Knowledge (2009), Knowledge Full Well (2011), Judgment and Agency (2015), and most recently Epistemic Explanations (2021).
Michael Williams
is a Krieger-Eisenhower Professor in the Philosophy Department at Johns Hopkins University and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. His areas of interest are epistemology (especially scepticism), philosophy of language, and history of modern philosophy. In addition to numerous articles on topics in these areas, he is the author of Groundless Belief (1977), Unnatural Doubts (1992) and Problems of Knowledge (2001). He is currently working on Curious Researches: Reflections on Skepticism, Ancient and Modern.