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Jim Sterba teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in ethics and political philosophy at the University of Notre Dame. He has published 35 books, and over 200 articles. And he is past president of the American Philosophical Association, Central Division, the North American Society for Social Philosophy, past president of Concerned Philosophers for Peace, and past president of the International Association for Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy, American Section. He has been visiting professor of philosophy at the University of Rochester and at the University of Latvia in the then Soviet Union on a Fulbright Award. He has also been visiting distinguished professor of philosophy at the University of San Francisco, the University of California at Irvine, and Santa Clara University. More recently, he has taught at Wuhan University and Peking University. In 2013, he received a grant from the John Templeton Foundation to bring the yet untapped resources of ethics and political Philosophy to bear on the problem of evil. This led the publication of his Is a Good God Logically Possible? in 2019, and to the special issue published this year in Religions devoted to the topic of the book and to another special issue that will come out next year in Religions devoted to the argument of the book.

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Louise Antony is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Massachusetts and at Rutgers University. She has research interests in the philosophy of mind, feminist theory, epistemology, and the philosophy of religion, and is the author of many essays in these areas. A volume of her essays, Only Natural: Gender, Nature, Knowledge, is forthcoming from Oxford University Press. She is the editor of Philosophers Without Gods: Meditations on Atheism and the Secular Life, the co-editor with Charlotte Witt of A Mind of One’s Own: Feminist Essays on Reason and Objectivity, and the co-editor with Norbert Hornstein of Chomsky and His Critics. She is committed to public philosophy, and frequently writes for and speaks to non-academic audiences. Her latest piece, “What is Naturalism?” appears in Think: Philosophy for Everyone.

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Dean Zimmerman earned a bachelor’s degree (with majors in philosophy, English, and French) from Minnesota State University—Mankato. At Brown University, he received a masters and Ph.D. in philosophy. Zimmerman has taught at the University of Notre Dame, Syracuse University, and Rutgers University, where he is Director of the Rutgers Center for the Philosophy of Religion, and a professor in the philosophy department. Zimmerman is founding editor of Oxford Studies in Metaphysics, now preparing its 13thth volume. He has co-edited several other books, and his publications include over 50 articles in scholarly journals and books.

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Peter van Inwagen has taught philosophy primarily at Syracuse University and the University of Notre Dame, with visiting positions at the University of Rochester, the University of Arizona, Rutgers University, and the University of St Andrews. He has delivered the Wilde Lectures in Oxford University and the Gifford Lectures in the University of St Andrews. He has been President of the Central Division of the American Philosophical Association and the Society of Christian Philosophers. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and has been awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of St Andrews. His best-known books are An Essay on Free Will (1983) and Material Beings (1990), both of which are still in print. His most recent book Being: A Study in Ontology is forthcoming from Oxford University Press. He is the author of the articles entitled "Metaphysics" in both the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy and the Encyclopedia Britannica.