Robert H. Bass, Assistant Professor, Coastal Carolina University, Conway, South Carolina 29528, email: <rhbass@gmail.com>, who received his Ph.D. for his dissertation, Towards a Constructivist Eudaemonism, has published in political philosophy, intellectual history and ethics, and has been a frequent watcher and sometimes participant in on-line discussions of Objectivism. His current research centers upon the relation of virtue ethics to politics and to our treatment of animals.

David M. Brown, url: <http://www.editingwrite.com>, is a freelance writer and editor, and the publisher of The Webzine, a general-interest Internet magazine. His clients have included Laissez Faire Books, U.S. Term Limits, Rasmussen Reports, Americans for Limited Government, the Cato Institute, Tibor R. Machan, and others.

Frank Bubb, email: <fbubb1@aol.com>, is a Trustee of The Objectivist Center and a retired corporate attorney. A graduate of Washington University with a B.A. in economics (1969) and the University of Pennsylvania Law School (1972), he was an attorney for Scott Paper Company for 20 years until its sale in 1995, specializing in securities, corporate finance, employee benefits and occupational safety and health. From 1996 to 2003, he was General Counsel of The Sports Authority, and retired when the company was sold in 2003. During the 1980s, he wrote over 60 op-ed articles that appeared in newspapers around the country, distributed by The Cato Institute or authored directly for The Philadelphia Inquirer and The Orange County Register, and wrote for The Freeman. He has also written for The New Individualist and its predecessor publication, Navigator.

Robert L. Campbell, Department of Psychology, 410A Brackett Hall, Clemson University, Clemson, South Carolina 29634-1355, USA, url: <http://www.robertlcampbell.com>, is the author of three published essays on moral development, an article on the development of the self, and a forthcoming chapter on the significance of Eddie Willers in Atlas Shrugged. He edited and translated Jean Piaget's book Studies in Reflecting Abstraction (Psychology Press, 2001) and edits New Ideas in Psychology.

Chris Cathcart, email: <cathcacr@gmail.com>, url: <http://geocities.com/cathcacr>, received an M.A. in Philosophy from Bowling Green State University in 2000.

Max Hocutt, email: <mhocutt@comcast.net>, specialized in the philosophy of psychology, then moral theory, before retiring in 2001 from the University of Alabama. In addition to editing Behavior and Philosophy for six years, he published three books and over 60 articles in learned journals. Since retiring, he has contributed to three encyclopedias, written half a dozen essays for the Independent Review and the Canadian Journal of Political Science, and reviewed over a dozen books for Metapsychology Online. His last book was Grounded Ethics: The Empirical Bases of Normative Judgments (Transaction, 2000).

Merlin Jetton, email: <merjet@comcast.net>, investment actuary (retired), has a B.S. in math, is a Fellow of the Society of Actuaries and a Chartered Financial Analyst. He has published articles in professional journals and periodicals, and several in the philosophy journal Objectivity.

Kurt Keefner, email: <kurt_keefner@yahoo.com>, is a nontraditional scholar interested in philosophy and the arts. He has written extensively for online publications such as The Atlasphere and The All-Music Guide. He lives with his wife in Greenbelt, Maryland.

Tibor R. Machan, email: <tmachan@link.freedom.com>, is R. C. Hoiles Professor of Business Ethics and Free Enterprise at the Argyros School of Business & Economics, Chapman University, Orange, CA 29866. His most recent book is Objectivity: Recovering Determinate Reality in Philosophy, Science, and Everyday Life (Ashgate, 2004).

Eric Mack, Tulane University, Department of Philosophy, New Orleans, Louisiana 70118, email: <ericmack123@hotmail.com>, is a Professor of Philosophy and also a faculty member of Tulane's Murphy Institute of Political Economy. He has published and lectured widely on topics in moral, political, and legal philosophy. Among his forthcoming essays are: "Non-Absolute Rights and Libertarian Taxation," in Social Philosophy and Policy; "Hayek on Justice and the Order of Actions," in Companion to Hayek (Cambridge University Press); and "Individualism and Libertarian Rights," in Contemporary Debates in Political Philosophy (Blackwell Press).

Douglas B. Rasmussen, Professor of Philosophy, Department of Philosophy, St. John's University, 8000 Utopia Parkway, Jamaica, New York 11439, email: <dbrlogos@earthlink.net>, is coauthor (with Douglas J. Den Uyl) of Norms of Liberty: A Perfectionist Basis for Non-Perfectionist Politics (Pennsylvania State University Press, 2005).

Sheldon Richman, Editor, The Freeman (Foundation for Economic Education); senior fellow, Future of Freedom Foundation; research fellow, Independent Institute; email: <sheldon@sheldonrichman.com>; blog: Free Association, is the author of Separating School and State: How to Liberate America's Families, Your Money or Your Life: Why We Must Abolish the Income Tax, and Tethered Citizens: Time to Repeal the Welfare State (all published by The Future of Freedom Foundation). His articles have appeared in The American Scholar, Journal of Libertarian Studies, Independent Review, Libertarian Forum, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Washington Times, USA Today, and other magazines and newspapers.

Peter Saint-Andre, email: <peter@saint-andre.com>, url: <http://www.saint-andre.com/>, is an independent scholar living in Denver, Colorado. When not working as Executive Director of the Jabber Software Foundation, he is also active as a poet, musician, translator, and essayist.

Chris Matthew Sciabarra, Visiting Scholar, Department of Politics, New York University, 726 Broadway, 7th floor, New York, New York 10003, email: <chris.sciabarra@nyu.edu>, url: <Dialectics and Liberty Homepage>, blog: Notablog, received his Ph.D. in political theory, philosophy, and methodology from New York University. He is the author of the "Dialectics and Liberty Trilogy," which includes Marx, Hayek, and Utopia (State University of New York Press, 1995), Ayn Rand: The Russian Radical (Penn State Press, 1995), and Total Freedom: Toward a Dialectical Libertarianism (Penn State Press, 2000). He is also co-editor, with Mimi Reisel Gladstein, of Feminist Interpretations of Ayn Rand (Penn State Press, 1999), and a founding co-editor of The Journal of Ayn Rand Studies.

Steven Yates, Adjunct Instructor, Philosophy, University of South Carolina-Upstate and Greenville Technical College, 3500 Pelham Rd., #216, Greenville, South Carolina 29615, email: <FreeYourMindinSC@yahoo.com>, is the author of Civil Wrongs (ICS Press, 1994), Worldviews (Worldviews Project, 2005) and In Defense of Logic (undergoing revisions). He has written over twenty articles and reviews for refereed academic journals and over a hundred articles for commentary sites on the World Wide Web, especially LewRockwell.com and NewsWithViews.com.