Allen Buchanan, National Humanities Center Fellow and the James B. Duke Distinguished Professor of Philosophy and Public Policy Studies, joined the faculty of Duke's Stanford Institute in 2002. He was previously at the Universities of Arizona, Wisconsin, and Minnesota. He is the author of over one hundred articles and six books: Marx and Justice: Radical Critique of Liberalism (1982); Ethics, Efficiency, and the Market (1985); Deciding For Others: The Ethics of Surrogate Decision Making (with Dan W. Brock, 1989); Secession: The Morality of Political Divorce From Fort Sumter to Lithuania and Quebec (1991); and (with Dan W. Brock, Norman Daniels, and Daniel Wikler) From Chance to Choice (1999). He served as Staff Philosopher for the President's commission on Medical Ethics, where he was a principal author of the Commission's two book-length reports on ethical issues in genetics (1983). As Staff-Consultant for the U.S. Advisory Committee on Human Radiation Experiments, Buchanan authored the ethical framework chapter for the Committee's final report (1995). From 1996 to 2000 he served as a member of the Advisory Council for the National Human Genome Research Institute. Buchanan is currently Director of the Consortium on Pharmacogenetics. His most recent book is Justice, Legitimacy, and Self-Determination: Moral Foundations for International Law (2003).

Alex Rosenberg, National Humanities Center Fellow and the R. Taylor Cole Professor of Philosophy, joined the faculty of Duke University in 2000. Before coming to Duke, he taught at Dalhousie University in Canada, Syracuse University, University of California, Riverside, and at the University of Georgia. He has also been a visiting professor and fellow of the Center for Philosophy of Science at the University of Minnesota, as well as the University of California, Santa Cruz, and Oxford University (Balliol College). At Duke, he is the co-director of the Center for Philosophy of Biology. Professor Rosenberg has written 170 articles in the philosophy of the social, behavioral, and biological sciences, along with twelve books, including Sociobiology and the Preemption of Social Sciences; Darwinism in Philosophy; Social Science and Policy; The Philosophy of Science: A Contemporary Introduction; and Darwinian Reductionism or How to Stop Worrying and Love Molecular Biology. Rosenberg was a Guggenheim fellow in 1981, and in 1993 he received the Lakatos Award for distinguished contribution to the philosophy of science. He was the national Phi Beta Kappa Romannel lecturer for 2006.

Jesse Prinz is an associate professor of philosophy at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He has been a visiting fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University, the Ecole Normale Superieure in Paris, the Collegium Budapest in Hungary, and School for Advanced Study at the University of London. He has published numerous articles on emotions, morals, consciousness, and other topics. In 2002 he published Furnishing the Mind: Concepts and Their Perceptual Basis and in 2004 Gut Reactions: A Perceptual Theory of Emotion. A third book, The Emotional Construction of Morals is in press, and two are forthcoming: Beyond Human Nature and The Conscious Brain.