Richard Holton arrived at MIT in the Fall of 2004. He graduated from University College, Oxford in 1984, having read Philosophy, Politics and Economics. He was a graduate student at Nuffield College, Oxford (1984-5), and the Ecole Normale Superieur, Paris (1985-6), before starting a Ph.D. in philosophy at Princeton (1986-1991). He taught at Monash University, Melbourne (1990-6), was a research fellow in the Philosophy Program, Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University (1997-8) and then taught at Sheffield University (1998-9), and the University of Edinburgh (1999-2004).
 

Jennifer Hornsby's B.A., M.Phil., and Ph.D. are from Oxford, London and Cambridge respectively. She returned to Oxford in 1979, where she was a Fellow of Corpus Christi College. In 1995, she moved to Birkbeck as Professor. Her main interests are in philosophy of action, mind, and language. She teaches in these subjects, and in metaphysics and areas of feminist philosophy.
 

Al Mele has published numerous books on agency, free will, and rationality, including Free Will and Luck, Motivation and Agency, and Self-Deception Unmasked.  He has taught graduate and undergraduate courses in a variety of areas, including philosophy of mind, metaphysics, philosophy of action, and philosophy of religion.  At the moment, he is working on incorporating recent data in neuroscience and in social and cognitive psychology into the philosophy of action and on debunking exaggerated claims about what these data show.
 

Shaun Nichols received his PhD in philosophy at Rutgers in 1992.  He joined the Arizona philosophy department in 2006. His books include Sentimental Rules: on the Natural Foundations of Moral Judgment and Mindreading:  An Integrated Account of Pretense, Self-Awareness, and Understanding Other Minds (with Stephen Stich), and he has published numerous articles on experimental philosophy (several on the concept of free will) and ethics.  His current research projects are in experimental philosophy, cultural evolution, free will, and cognitive theories of the imagination.
 

Adina Roskies has pursued a career in both philosophy and the neurosciences. At the University of California, San Diego she concurrently earned an M.A. in Philosophy and an M.S. in Neuroscience, and received a Ph.D. in Neuroscience and Cognitive Science in 1995.   Her philosophical research interests include philosophy of mind, philosophy of science, and ethics. She was a member of the McDonnell Project in Neurophilosophy, a working group aiming to integrate philosophical thought with neurobiological research. She has published many articles in the neurosciences as well as in philosophy, among which are several devoted to exploring and articulating issues in neuroethics.
 

Angela Smith received her bachelor's degree in philosophy and political science from Willamette University, and her doctorate in philosophy from Harvard University. Her primary research interests are in moral and political philosophy, and especially in the area of moral psychology. She has also published work in ancient philosophy, and has research interests in the history of modern moral philosophy.
 

Jay Wallace works in moral philosophy. His interests extend to all parts of the subject (including its history), and to such allied areas as political philosophy, philosophy of law, and philosophy of action. His research has focused on responsibility, moral psychology, and the theory of practical reason. Recently he has written on promising, freedom, rational agency, normativity, contractualism, instrumental reason, and Nietzsche's Genealogy of Morals. He did his graduate work at the University of Oxford (B.Phil. 1983) and at Princeton University (Ph.D. 1988). He has taught at Wesleyan University, the University of Pennsylvania, and the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.