Michael Cholbi is Professor of Philosophy and Director of the California Center for Ethics and Policy at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona. He is the author of Suicide: The Philosophical Dimensions (2011), Understanding Kant's Ethics (2016), and Procreation, Parenthood, and Educational Rights (2017).

Michael Weber is Professor of Philosophy and Chair of the Department of Philosophy at Bowling Green State University. He has published widely in ethics and political philosophy on topics including rational choice theory, ethics and the emotions, and egalitarianism. He has also co-edited six volumes on applied ethics and political philosophy, including Paternalism: Theory and Practice (2013), Manipulation: Theory and Practice (2014), The Ethics of Self-Defense (2016), Political Utopias: Contemporary Debates (2017), and Religious Exemptions (2017).