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Gideon Yaffe is Wesley Newcomb Hohfeld Professor of Jurisprudence, Professor of Philosophy, and Professor of Psychology at Yale. His primary area of research is the philosophy of law, particularly the philosophy of criminal law. He makes progress on the study of intention and the theory of action in an effort to understand and evaluate the way in which criminal responsibility is assessed.

Miranda Fricker is professor of philosophy, and co-director of the New York Institute for Philosophy. Previously she was distinguished professor at The Graduate Center CUNY, and prior to that a professor at the University of Sheffield in the UK, where she continues to hold an honorary professorship. Her work is mainly in moral philosophy and social epistemology, with a special interest in virtue and feminist perspectives.