Mary Nickel is Instructor of Philosophy at the University of South Carolina. She received her doctoral degree in Religion, Ethics, and Politics from Princeton University in 2023. Nickel's research integrates religious ethics and political philosophy to address questions concerning systemic injustice, ethical obligation, and human agency. Her current book project, “Matrices,” focuses on what pregnancy and motherhood can teach us about social agency and collective responsibility.
Nicholas L. Guardiano is Alwin C. Carus Archivist and Professor of Philosophy at Southern Illinois University Carbondale. He specializes in American transcendentalism and pragmatism (esp. Ralph Waldo Emerson and Charles Peirce), metaphysics, aesthetics, philosophy of nature, semiotics, and nineteenth-century American art. He teaches broadly in the history of philosophy, as well as oversees the philosophy collections at the Special Collections Research Center. He is author of Aesthetic Transcendentalism in Emerson, Peirce, and Nineteenth-Century American Landscape Painting (Lexington Books, 2017).
Jeffrey B. Speaks is a...