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On behalf of the Program Committee of the North American Nietzsche Society (NANS), I am pleased to be able to introduce in this issue three papers from an Author-Meets-Critics session devoted to Paul Katsafanas's recent book, Agency and the Foundations of Ethics: Nietzschean Constitutivism (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013). In a group meeting chaired by R. Lanier Anderson and held on December 28, 2014, in conjunction with the American Philosophical Association Eastern Division Meeting in Philadelphia, Professors Bernard Reginster (Brown University) and Jorah Dannenberg (Stanford University) addressed their comments and criticisms to Professor Katsafanas (Boston University), whose thoughtful replies are included here. The Society also invited Dr. Andrew Huddleston (Birkbeck) to contribute a critical article on Nietzschean Constitutivism, which he originally presented not to NANS but at a workshop on “Nietzsche, Value, and Self-Constitution” (May 17–18, 2014) at the University of Oxford. Professor Katsafanas's replies include responses to the...