Dr. Lucy Allais is a professor of philosophy who works partly on topics in the history of philosophy, with particular focus on the works of Immanuel Kant, and partly on topics in moral and political philosophy, with particular focus on forgiveness. She is currently working on human freedom in Kant’s philosophy, in terms of its metaphysical, moral and political dimensions.

Dr. Pablo Abitol is a professor of New Political Economy, Big History, and Theories of Democracy and Development in the Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities of the Technological University of Bolívar (UTB), where he also teaches graduate courses on institutions, democracy, human development and peace-building, and coordinates the Regional Historical Memory Group, the Peace Lectures, and the Cultural Evolution Workshop. 

Dr. Santiago Amaya is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Universidad de los Andes in Bogotá, where he co-directs the Moral Judgment and Emotion lab. He works mostly at the intersection of action theory and moral psychology, trying to understand the mechanisms subserve distinctively moral behavior and the social dynamics shape that its evaluation. His articles have appeared in Noûs, Philosophical Studies, Social Philosophy and Policy, Synthese, among other venues. 

Dr. Christopher Bennett is a  professor of philosophy at the University of Sheffield. His interests are in moral, political and legal philosophy, in particular criminal law and criminal justice, and the nature of blame and retribution. He is also interested in issues in moral psychology, and the history of philosophy. He has published articles in journals such as the Philosophical Quarterly, European Journal of Philosophy, Ratio, the Journal of Applied Philosophy, Oxford Journal of Legal Studies and Ohio State Journal of Criminal Law. His book The Apology Ritual is published by Cambridge University Press. He also has an introductory book, What Is This Thing Called Ethics?, published with Routledge.

Dr. Felipe De Brigard is the Fuchsberg-Levine Family Associate Professor of Philosophy, Associate Professor in Psychology & Neuroscience, and Core Faculty in the Duke Institute for Brain Sciences and Center for Cognitive Neuroscience at Duke University, where he also leads the Imagination and Modal Cognition Lab. He works primarily in philosophy of mind with an emphasis in cognitive psychology and neuroscience. His research focuses on the nature of memory and its relations to other cognitive faculties, such as perception, imagination, attention and consciousness, and he is also interested in the philosophy of neuroscience and moral psychology.

Gabriela Fernández  is a Psychology & Neuroscience Ph.D. candidate working with Felipe De Brigard and Kevin LaBar trying to disentangle the relationship between forgiveness and memory. Through her Ph.D. project, she hopes to gain a deep understanding of the interactions between forgiveness and memory, the cognitive and emotional processes leading to forgiveness, and the effect that forgiving/not forgiving has on our memories.

Dr. Simone Gubler is  an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, where she is also a core faculty member in the PPE Program. My work addresses questions at the intersection of moral psychology, normative ethics, political philosophy, and the philosophy of law. I have a particular interest in the relationship between morality and institutions and the ways in which moral and economic thought intersect. She has written for venues including the Times Literary Supplement and the New York Times.

Dr. Bennett Helm is a professor of philosophy at Franklin & Marshall College. His research focuses on understanding what it is to be a person as a distinctive sort of free and responsible social agent. Central to my approach is a concern with the “evaluative attitudes”—caring, valuing, loving, respecting, etc.—and the holistic rational patterns of emotions in terms of which they are intelligible.

Dr. McCullough is an experimental psychologist who is concerned primarily with the evolutionary and cognitive foundations of human sociality. In addition to pioneering work on forgiveness, gratitude, prosocial behavior, religion, and morality, for twenty-five years he has studied the effects of empathy on how we treat others. He currently directs a research network devoted to understanding how people express and experience gratitude across many different cultures, and he is the principal investigator on a multi-disciplinary, multi-site project designed to uncover the effects of religion on cooperation.

Dr. Glen Pettigrove is ... His primary research interests are in virtue ethics and moral psychology.  Because emotions play such a significant role in our experiences of moral injury and repair, I spend a good deal of time investigating emotions like anger, guilt, and shame and activities such as forgiving and reconciling.  Some of my work on character focuses on particular traits, including ambition, meekness, cheerfulness, and grace.  Other work looks at the development of character-based normative ethical theories.  Intertwined with the abovementioned projects is an ongoing engagement with Scottish Enlightenment thinkers, especially Francis Hutcheson, David Hume, and Adam Smith.

 Dr. Shanna Slank is a Visiting Assistant Teaching Professor at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill and a researcher at the Kenan Ethics Institute at Duke University. She joined the Imagination and Modal Cognition Lab in August 2022. Prior to that she was an assistant professor of philosophy at Kansas State University. 

 Dr. Garth Stevens previously held the positions of Dean, Deputy Dean, Co-Assistant Dean (Graduate Studies), and Assistant Dean (Research) in the Faculty of Humanities. at the University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburh. He is now the Deputy Vice-Chancellor: People Development and Culture. 

His work focuses on race, racism and related social asymmetries, historical/collective trauma and memory, and critical studies of violence. He was the co-lead researcher on the Apartheid Archive Project, examining experiences of racism during apartheid and their continuing effects in contemporary South Africa. He is also currently the co-lead researcher on the Violent States, States of Violence Project, which re-engages a theorisation of violence in the contemporary world.