Jennifer Lackey is Wayne and Elizabeth Jones Professor of Philosophy at Northwestern University (USA). Her research in social epistemology examines issues such as the duty to object, norms of credibility, the epistemology of groups, expertise, and the distribution of epistemic goods. She is the author of Learning from Words: Testimony as a Source of Knowledge (Oxford University of Press, 2008) and an editor of The Epistemology of Disagreement (Oxford University Press, 2013, with David Christensen), Essays in Collective Epistemology (Oxford University Press, 2015) and Academic Freedom (Oxford University Press, 2018). Professor Lackey is the editor-in-chief of Episteme, an editor of Philosophical Studies, and the recipient of the American Philosophical Association’s Lebowitz Prize for Philosophical Achievement and Contribution (2015).

Tymofiy Mylovanov is President of the Kyiv School of Economics (Ukraine) and Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Pittsburgh (USA). His research focuses on game theory, contracts, and institutional design, including as regards the governance of free speech, diverging opinions, persuasion, and censorship. He is particularly interested in how people can see the same evidence but draw opposite conclusions, becoming polarized over time. A past Associate Editor of Review of Economic Design, Professor Mylovanov was the Deputy Chairman of the Board of the National Bank of Ukraine (2016-2019) and served as the Minister of Economic Development, Trade, and Agriculture of Ukraine (2019-2020).