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Joshua Greene is assistant professor of psychology at Harvard University and director of the Moral Cognition Lab, where he is studying moral judgment and decision-making using behavioral experiments, functional neuroimaging (fMRI), and other neuro-scientific methods. He is writing a book about the implications of our emerging scientific understanding of morality.

James Blair is chief of the unit on Affective Cognitive Neuroscience in the Mood and Anxiety Disorders Program at the National Institute of Mental Health. His primary research interest involves understanding the neuro-cognitive systems mediating affect in humans and how these become dysfunctional in mood and anxiety disorders. Previously, he helped form and co-lead the Developmental Disorders group at the Institute of Cognitive Research, University College London, where he was named senior lecturer.

Jeanette Kennett recently joined the faculty of the Philosophy Department and the Macquarie Centre for Cognitive Science at Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia. She is the author of *Agency and Responsibility: A Common-Sense Moral Psychology* (Clarendon Press, 2001). Previously, she was principal research fellow in The Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics at the Australian National University and also at Charles Sturt University.

Stephen Pope is professor of theology at Boston College, where he teaches courses on social ethics and theological ethics. He is author of *The Evolution of Altruism and the Ordering of Love* (Georgetown, 1994) and *Human Evolution and Christian Ethics* (Cambridge University Press, 2008).

Rachana Kamtekar is associate professor of philosophy at the University of Arizona, specializing in ancient moral and political philosophy and moral psychology, both contemporary and ancient.

Walter Sinnott-Armstrong is Chauncey Stillman Professor in Practical Ethics in the Department of Philosophy and the Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University. Previously, he was professor of philosophy and Hardy Professor of Legal Studies at Dartmouth College. He is co-director of the MacArthur Law and Neuroscience Project and co-investigator at the Oxford Centre for Neuroethics. He is author of *Morality Without God?* (Oxford University Press, 2009) and *Moral Skepticisms* (Oxford University Press, 2006) and editor of *Moral Psychology*, volumes 1-3 (MIT Press, 2007-2008).

Belle Boggs has published work in *Glimmer Train*, *Oxford American*, and *Best New American Voices 2003*. She holds an MFA in fiction from the University of California at Irvine and grew up in King William County, Virginia.

Shane Jones was born in February of 1980. His poetry and short fiction have appeared in numerous literary journals, including *New York Tyrant*, *Unsaid, Typo*, and *Pindeldyboz*. He lives in upstate New York. *Light Boxes* is his first novel.

Dr. Alonso Ricardo is a post-doctoral fellow at the Szostak Lab at Harvard University and Howard Hughes Medical Institute. He is currently working with Jack Szostak in unnatural genetic systems and self-replicating polymers.

Kathryn Schulz has written for *The Nation*, *Rolling Stone*, and the *New York Times Magazine*, among other publications. A former editor of the online environmental magazine *Grist* and the *Santiago Times* in Chile, she was awarded a Pew Fellowship in International Journalism in 2004. She lives in New York.

Rafe Esquith is one of the most inspiring grade school teachers in America. He is celebrated by The White House, The Dalai Lama and Oprah, and called a "Modern-day Thoreau" by *Newsweek*. Mr. Esquith has taught kids from some of the toughest neighborhoods in Los Angeles with staggering success. His fifth-students are already tackling high-school fare: algebra, philosophy and Shakespeare. As a result, they consistently score in the top 5-10% on the state standardized tests. Mr. Esquith has been teaching for over 27 years in LAUSD.

Bret Easton Ellis is the author of five previous novels including, *Less Than Zero*, *The Rules of Attraction*, *American Psycho*, *Glamorama*, and *Lunar Park*, and a collection of stories, *The Informers*. His works have been translated into twenty-seven languages. *Less Than Zero*, *The Rules of Attraction*, A*merican Psycho*, and *The Informers* have all been made into films. He divides his time between Los Angeles and New York City.