Matthew C. Altman has published three single-authored monographs: A Theory of Legal Punishment (2021), Kant and Applied Ethics (2011), and A Companion to Kant's Critique of Pure Reason (2008). He is co-author of The Hackett Introduction to Medical Ethics (2025) and The Fractured Self in Freud and German Philosophy (2013). Prior to this edited volume, Altman edited The Palgrave Handbook on the Philosophy of Punishment (2023), The Palgrave Kant Handbook (2017), and The Palgrave Handbook of German Idealism (2014). He serves as series editor for Palgrave Handbooks in German Idealism and Palgrave Handbooks in the Philosophy of Law.

David Schwan specializes in applied ethics and moral psychology, with a current focus on the ethical dimensions of emerging medical technologies. His work has appeared in the Hastings Center Report, Bioethics, Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics, and Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics.