Notes on Contributors
Christopher Adair-Toteff
has retired as a professor of philosophy and social theory. He has published widely on classical German social thinkers, especially Max Weber, Ernst Troeltsch, and Ferdinand Tönnies. His current interests are on political philosophy as indicated by Ernst Troeltsch and the Spirit of Modern Culture (Walter de Gruyter 2021) and the intersection of social theory and economics as shown in his forthcoming book on Weber for Routledge.
Alban Bouvier
is Emeritus Professor at Aix-Marseille University and Senior Researcher at the Ecole Normale Supérieure de Paris (Institut Jean Nicod). He previously taught at the Sorbonne. He specialized in both the philosophy of the social sciences and theoretical sociology. He is especially interested in the connections between analytic sociology on the one hand and argumentation theory and rhetoric on the other hand in the continuity of Vilfredo Pareto.
David Henderson
is the Robert R. Chambers Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln. He works on a wide range of topics in the Philosophy of Social Science and Epistemology. In the latter, he has commonly collaborated with Terence Hogan. In the former, he has long admired and learned from the work of Stephen Turner. Indeed, his own early work, including Interpretation and Explanation in the Human Sciences (suny 1993) owed much to this engagement. His contribution with Terrence Hogan in this collection reflects a related overlap with Turner’s work: the significance of recent cognitive science for the social sciences.
Terence Horgan
is Professor of Philosophy (Emeritus) at the University of Arizona. His philosophical work, often collaborative, spans a number of fields including philosophy of mind, metaphysics, epistemology, metaethics, and philosophical paradoxes. He collaborates extensively with David Henderson on topics in epistemology.
John Holmwood
is emeritus professor of Sociology at the University of Nottingham and senior researcher at the Centre for Science Technology and Society Studies in the Institute for Philosophy at the Czech Academy of Science. His current research is on multiculturalism and religion and on colonialism and modern social theory. He has recently published a work of public sociology (with Therese O’Toole) on the Birmingham Trojan Horse affair which involved false claims of a plot to Islamicise schools and (with Gurminder K Bhambra) on the role of colonialism in the construction of classical sociology and contemporary accounts of modernity.
Peter Olen
is an assistant professor of philosophy at Lake-Sumter State College in Clermont, Florida. His research focuses broadly on the history of philosophy (especially 19th and 20th century American philosophy). Specifically, Peter’s recent publications address issues surrounding Wilfrid Sellars, pragmatism, logical positivism, and historical perspectives on the tension between normative and naturalistic accounts of human agency.
Mark Risjord
is professor of Philosophy at Emory University (USA) and Affiliated Research Professor in the Department of Philosophy and Social Science, University of Hradec Králové, Czech Republic. His research is in the philosophy of science, with special interests in issues arising from anthropology and nursing. His current projects investigate inferentialist approaches to scientific representation and minimalist approaches to joint action.
Paul A. Roth
is Distinguished Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of California-Santa Cruz (USA). His research focuses on several areas, including Quine and naturalized epistemology, philosophy of history (particularly historical explanation as debated within the analytical philosophical tradition), and philosophy of social science. He has numerous articles in each of these areas as well as a recent book on historical explanation.
Theodore R. Schatzki
is professor of geography and philosophy at the University of Kentucky and professor of sociology at Lancaster University. He is a social theorist, widely associated with the theoretical stream in the social disciplines known as practice theory. His books have developed an original version of this approach. Schatzki’s present research ranged over multiple topics such as materiality and social life, cryptocurrencies/blockchains, and spaces of educating under the Covid-19 regime.
Karsten R. Stueber
is Professor of Philosophy at the College of the Holy Cross. He works at the intersection of the philosophy of mind, philosophy of the social sciences, and metaethics. Among others, he is the author of Rediscovering Empathy: Agency, Folk Psychology and the Human Sciences (mit Press 2006) and more recently the co-editor of Ethical Sentimentalism: New Perspectives (Cambridge University Press 2017). In his new book project, he is exploring the relationship between empathy and morality.
Stephen Turner
is Distinguished Research Professor at the Department of Philosophy, University of South Florida. He has published extensively on the history and philosophy of social science. His current research interests are in the relations between cognitive science and the conceptions of the social, and in aspects of democratic theory, especially relating to issues of knowledge and expertise.
Sam Whimster
is a sociologist and is Professor in the Global Policy Institute, London. He is editor of the journal Max Weber Studies. He is the co-editor (with Hans Henrik Brunn) of Max Weber: Collected Methodological Writings (Routledge 2012).
Rafał Paweł Wierzchosławski
lectures on philosophy and history of science and axiological problems of modern civilization in the Liberal Arts Program at the Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań. He has published on the philosophy of the social sciences, social ontology, political philosophy and social studies of science. His present focus is on the experts’ role in defining republican freedom and forms of government within the context of knowledge societies.
Julie Zahle
is associate professor on the Department of Philosophy at the University of Bergen. Previously, she taught at Durham University and the University of Copenhagen. She received her Ph.D. from the History and Philosophy of Science Department at the University of Pittsburgh in 2009. Her research areas include the philosophy of qualitative methods, values and objectivity in social science, the individualism-holism debate, and social theories of practices.