C. Mónica Capra
Professor of Economic Sciences, Claremont Graduate University
C. Mónica Capra is a professor in the Department of Economic Sciences at Claremont Graduate University. Her areas of expertise are experimental economics, behavioral economics, and neuroeconomics. Professor Capra is interested in decision processes. Her contributions in behavioral game theory include the explicit modeling of introspection with error and the study of the effects of mood on decisions. She is also interested in the role personality plays in shaping economic choices. Capra has made transdisciplinary studies an important component of her work, and has collaborated with data scientists, neuroscientists, and psychologists. This collaboration has led to important contributions in behavioral economics.C. Mónica Capra is a professor in the Department of Economic Sciences. Her areas of expertise are experimental economics, behavioral economics, and neuroeconomics. Professor Capra is interested in decision processes. Her contributions in behavioral game theory include the explicit modeling of introspection with error and the study of the effects of mood on decisions. She is also interested in the role personality plays in shaping economic choices. Capra has made transdisciplinary studies an important component of her work, and has collaborated with data scientists, neuroscientists, and psychologists. This collaboration has led to important contributions in behavioral economics.
Scott Soames
Distinguished Professor of Philosophy, University of Southern California
Scott Soames is a Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the University of Southern California. He specializes in the philosophy of language, the history of analytic philosophy, and the philosophy of law. He has published extensively on truth, reference, meaning, the relationship between semantics and pragmatics, and the nature of syntactic and semantic theories of natural languages. Specific topics of his scholarly interest include names, natural kind terms, descriptions, pronominal anaphora, propositions and propositional attitudes, vagueness, presupposition, partially defined predicates, the so-called rule following paradox, the indeterminacy of translation, and the use of the science and philosophy of language to illuminate the content of legal texts.