Matthew C. Altman has published three single-authored monographs: A Theory of LegalPunishment (2021), Kant and Applied Ethics (2011), and A Companion to Kant’s “Critique ofPure 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), ThePalgrave Kant Handbook (2017), and The Palgrave Handbook of German Idealism (2014). Heserves as series editor for Palgrave Handbooks in German Idealism and PalgraveHandbooks 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, andTheoretical Medicine and Bioethics. [Note: Although Dr. Altman is farther along in his career and has more publications than Dr. Schwan, we want to emphasize that this is a co-edited volume, with work done by both Altman and Schwan. This sort of detailed summary of our accomplishments may be usedfor advertising purposes. On the back cover of the book itself, we will want moreabbreviated biographies, like this: Matthew C. Altman is Chair and Professor of Philosophy at Central Washington University and Commissioner for Kittitas County Public Hospital District No. 1.David Schwan is Senior Lecturer of Philosophy at Central Washington University.]
