Authors

Yamile Abdala Rioja

Yamile Abdala Rioja is an advanced student in a 5-year philosophy program at Universidad Nacional de Cordoba, Argentina, and an independent researcher. She began her lifelong journey in philosophy at a very early age by reading and studying with her father works on medieval authors, classical literature and religious texts. She has always been mesmerized by the polymathy in many of the philosophers in history and enjoys finding ways to escape Platonic specialization. At this time, her main areas of interest are aesthetics and metaphysics.

Eva Anagnostou-Laoutides

• https://researchers.mq.edu.au/en/persons/eva-anagnostou-laoutides-2
• https://mq.academia.edu/EvaAnagnostouLaoutides

Eva Anagnostou-Laoutides is Associate Professor at the Department of Ancient History, Macquarie University and Australian Research Council Future Fellow (2017-2021). Her research interests focus on the use of mythic and religious traditions in political agendas of the Hellenistic and Augustan periods; also, the reception of Greek philosophy in early Christianity. She is currently finishing a book on The History of Inebriation from Plato to the Latin Middle Ages and runs an Australian Research Council Discovery Project on Crises of Leadership in the Eastern Roman Empire, 250-1000 CE.

Lorenzo Buscicchi

Lorenzo Buscicchi is a PhD Candidate at the University of Waikato. His thesis, which employs the methods of affective science, is on the nature and value of pleasure. Lorenzo is the lead author of ‘The Paradox of Happiness: The more you chase it the more elusive it becomes’ in The Conversation Yearbook 2019: 50 Standout Articles from Australia’s Top Thinkers. He was previously the scientific director of the Global Happiness Organization.

Stuart Bush-Harris

Stuart Bush-Harris is a British-born, Tasmanian-based teacher and father of three. His stories have been published in the Forty South Short Story Anthology 2020 and the Tasmanian Microstories collection. He loved studying the Big Questions at uni, and when he’s not teaching or parenting, he’s quietly working on a yet-to-be-published philosophical science fiction novel. His poetry and a memoir of his gap-year in Alexandria, Egypt can be found at Stuart Bush-Harris Wattpad, and his shameless self-promotion can be found on X (twitter.com).

Peter Cave

Peter Cave is a popular philosophy writer and speaker. He read philosophy at University College London and King’s College Cambridge. Peter is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, Honorary Member of Population Matters, former member of the Council of the Royal Institute of Philosophy and Chair of Humanist Philosophers - and is a Patron of Humanists UK. He has scripted and presented BBC radio philosophy programmes and often takes part in public debates on religion, ethics and socio-political matters. His philosophy books include This Sentence Is False: An Introduction to Philosophical Paradoxes (2009), and three Beginner’s Guides: to Humanism, Philosophy and Ethics. More recent works are The Big Think Book: Discover Philosophy Through 99 Perplexing Problems (2015), The Myths We Live By: A Contrarian’s Guide to Democracy, Free Speech and Other Liberal Fictions (2019), and How to Think Like a Philosopher (2023).

Find out more about Peter Cave at: www.philosophycave.com.

David Charles

David Charles is a philosophy writer and data professional based in the UK. He holds a PhD in Physics. His philosophy writing focusses on ethics and agency, with an empirical basis. His work has been published in Philosophy Now. He also writes public-interest data analysis articles, released via Medium.

ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0004-1150-7525
Medium: https://david-charles.medium.com/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/datadaveuk

David Cockayne

David Cockayne comes from the formerly industrial West Midlands of England. He left school at 16 and became a gas fitter, subsequently declining into technical writing and then English teaching. Somewhere along the line he acquired qualifications in Computer Science and Linguistics.

His interest in Chinese philosophy derives from a youthful dalliance with Maoism during the Cultural Revolution and, in more recent times, two years’ confusion while teaching in Beijing. He is presently attempting to write an introduction to what Confucianism is and is not, focusing especially on what the ancient texts themselves actually say.

David E. Cooper

David E. Cooper is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Durham University, UK. He has been a visiting professor in several countries, including the USA, Canada, Malta, Germany and Sri Lanka. He has been the Chair or President of a number of academic societies, including The Aristotelian Society and The Nietzsche Society of Great Britain. His many books include World Philosophies: An Historical Introduction, The Measure of Things: Humanism, Humility and Mystery, A Philosophy of Gardens, Animals and Misanthropy, and Pessimism, Quietism and Refuge in Nature. He is also the author of three novels set in Sri Lanka.

Emanuele Costa

Emanuele Costa is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Vanderbilt University.

His research is primarily focused on Early Modern Philosophy and Metaphysics, but he also takes a keen interest in showing how the concepts and ideas developed in a different era shape the ways we understand our current world. He is currently completing a manuscript on Baruch Spinoza’s concept of individuality and relationality, and he has an active research project on Anne Conway’s philosophy of transcendence.

More information on the author’s homepage

Dan Demetriou

Dan Demetriou is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Minnesota, Morris. An ethicist and social-political philosopher, he is the co-editor of “Honor in the Modern World” (Lexington/Rowman and Littlefield, 2016) and has recent and forthcoming work in the areas of sex ethics, monument ethics, gun rights, and migration ethics.

Shane Epting

Shane Epting is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the Missouri University of Science and Technology and a co-founder of the Philosophy of the City Research Group. His research addresses philosophical issues in transportation, infrastructure, food systems, and cities. He has published three books, 25 journal articles, and several chapters. He lectures worldwide and appears on nationally syndicated radio. In 2023, he will be on tour, supporting his latest manuscript, Urban Enlightenment: Multistakeholder Engagement and the City (Routledge). Visit www.shaneepting for locations and dates, or find him on Twitter and Instagram.

Miles Erickson

Miles Erickson is an African American multidisciplinary artist and philosopher based in Chicago, IL. His interests throughout his creative and academic practice are based on a good-faith interest in perspectives outside of his own. After studying philosophy at UIC, Miles attended the School of the Arts Institute of Chicago, where he used his philosophy background to create compelling sound, performance, and visual pieces that aimed to be just as emotionally resonant as they were pertinent to the times. Miles never shied away from controversy, often delving into contentious topics such as incels, Black Republicans, and the 2023 Gaza genocide in his work. His upcoming book “Crack Baby Snow Angels” is a collection of prose that delves into the facets of American society that many would rather forget.

Guilherme Figueiredo

Guilherme Figueiredo is a doctoral student in Anthropology at the University of Oxford and an associated researcher at CRIA (Centre for Research in Anthropology). He has co-organized and lectured seminars and courses about art, anthropology, religion, and philosophy. He has devoted his research to philosophical and theoretical aspects of anthropology, namely, to issues related to intercultural translation, ethnocentrism, objectivity, and relativism, drawing on three philosophical traditions (pragmatism, hermeneutics, and phenomenology). Currently, he is researching notions of place and space, religion, and secularism in Japan.

• Homepage at University of Oxford
• Homepage at the Centre for Research in Anthropology
• Twitter
• Google Scholar
• Other work.

Daniele Fulvi

Daniele Fulvi is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Institute for Culture and Society, Western Sydney University Node of the ARC Centre of Excellence in Synthetic Biology. He specialises in modern and contemporary continental philosophy and environmental ethics, and his current research focuses on the ethical and social dimensions of synthetic biology applied to climate change mitigation. He is also a member of the editorial team of the journal Environmental Philosophy, and associate editor of the Encyclopedia of the Anthropocene (forthcoming, Springer Nature).

• Institutional webpage: Daniele Fulvi.
• ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8849-8207
• Academia.edu: Daniele Fulvi at Academia.edu

Tina Lee Forsee

Tina Lee Forsee studied philosophy at Marlboro College in Vermont and now lives in Tucson, Arizona. She is an Associate Acquisitions Editor and audiobook narrator at After Dinner Conversation, a magazine dedicated to philosophical short stories.

Her novel, A Footnote to Plato, is coming soon from Wipf and Stock. For updates, please subscribe to her mailing list at tinaforsee.com or follow her blog at philosophyandfiction.com.

Max Gottschlich

Max Gottschlich is a Senior Lecturer at the Institute for Practical Philosophy/Ethics at the Catholic Private University of Linz in Austria. His research interests include ethics, logic, philosophy of language and philosophy of nature.

Catherine Greene

Catherine Greene is a Research Associate at the Centre for Philosophy of Natural and Social Science at the London School of Economics. Her research interests are the philosophy of finance and social science. Before studying for a PhD she had a career in finance and still consults an ethics and investment strategy. More information is available at www.catherinegreene.co.uk

Daniel Gregory

Daniel Gregory is a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Salzburg. His primary areas of interest are inner speech and dreams. He also does some work applying insights from the philosophy of mind and cognitive science to legal issues.

Wael B. Hallaq

Wael B. Hallaq (وائل حلاق‎) is a scholar of Islamic law and Islamic intellectual history and the Avalon Foundation Professor in the Humanities at Columbia University. He is considered a leading scholar in the field of Islamic legal studies.

Professor Hallaq has published over 80 major scholarly books and articles on a variety of topics including philosophy, political and legal theory, and the intellectual history of Orientalism and the Islam. Some of his recent works include: Restating Orientalism: A Critique of Modern Knowledge (2018); Reforming Modernity: Ethics and the New Human in the Philosophy of Abdurrahman Taha (2019); Authority, Continuity, and Change in Islamic Law (2001); The Origins and Evolution of Islamic Law (2005); Shari`a: Theory, Practice, Transformations (2009); and An Introduction to Islamic Law (2009).

His works have been widely debated worldwide and translated into a dozen languages. Impossible State (2013) won Columbia’s distinguished Book Award. In 2007, he won the Islamic Republic of Iran’s best book prize for his Origins and Evolution, and in 2020, the Nautilus Book Award for Reforming Modernity. In 2021, he was awarded the TÜBA Prize of the Turkish Academy of Science for innovative and path-breaking scholarship in the Humanities and Social Sciences.

Gregory Harms

Gregory Harms is a scholar specializing in US foreign policy and the Middle East. He teaches philosophy with a focus on moral and political philosophy, gives public lectures, keeps a blog, and publishes articles on CounterPunch, Truthout, Mondoweiss, and Juan Cole’s blog, Informed Comment. Harms has traveled throughout Israel, the West Bank, and Gaza, and has been interviewed on BBC Radio.

Michael Hauskeller

Michael Hauskeller is Professor of Philosophy and Head of the Philosophy Department at the University of Liverpool, UK. He specializes in moral and existential philosophy, but has also done work in various other areas, most notably phenomenology (the theory of atmospheres), the philosophy of art and beauty, and the philosophy of human enhancement.

His publications include Biotechnology and the Integrity of Life (Routledge 2007), Better Humans? Understanding the Enhancement Project (Routledge 2013), Sex and the Posthuman Condition (Palgrave Macmillan 2014), The Palgrave Handbook of Posthumanism in Film and Television (ed. with T. Philbeck and C. Carbonell, Palgrave 2015), Mythologies of Transhumanism (Palgrave Macmillan 2016), Moral Enhancement. Critical Perspectives (ed. with L. Coyne, Cambridge University Press 2018), and The Meaning of Life and Death (Bloomsbury 2019). His most recent book is The Things that Really Matter. Philosophical Conversations on the Cornerstones of Life (UCL Press, 2022).

B.V.E. Hyde

B.V.E. Hyde is a researcher with polymathic interests in philosophy, history, sociology and Japanology. He is currently employed as a philosopher of science and an ethicist, but has an enduring interest in Far Eastern philosophy. Some of his books on the topic (for which he is currently looking for a publisher) include The Tale of the Japanese Mind, a whistlestop tour of the history of Japanese philosophy, Lectures on Japanese Philosophy, an introduction to and overview of the subject, and a Commentary on the Shōtoku Constitution, which is a reference book much more academic than the other two. You can follow him on Twitter (@bvehyde) to stay up to date with his publications.

Lina Ignatova

Lina Ignatova is a content and creative writer. Curiosity is the backbone of her character, questioning — the doorkeeper of her mind, and she has a healthy disrespect for the impossible. When she’s not wondering and writing, Lina’s wandering and climbing. She did her Master’s degree in Philosophy at the University of St. Andrews. Her philosophical interests are a fascinating blend of Aesthetics, Time, Buddhism, Daoism, and Moral Psychology.

• Medium: medium.com/@LinaIgnatova
• Instagram: instagram.com/linaignatova_writes

Finn Janning

Finn Janning, PhD, is a writer and philosopher whose research focuses on human existence and the nature of attention. His work often revolves around questions like “Which life is worth living?” and “How can we become worthy of what happens to us?”

His work includes books, academic papers, creative nonfiction, and fiction. It has been published in Kritike, Philosophy of Management, Ramon Llull Journal of Applied Ethics, Journal of Philosophy of Life, Philosophical Papers and Reviews, and Philosophy Now, among others. He lives in Barcelona, Spain. For more information: finnjanning.com

Sofia Jeppsson

Sofia Jeppsson is an associate professor of philosophy at Umeå University, Sweden. She has published articles about free will and moral responsibility as well as more applied ethics papers on topics such as criminal justice and animal ethics. She currently focuses her research efforts on the philosophy of psychiatry and madness.

Kunal Kashyap

Kunal Kashyap is an independent researcher and a philosophy graduate of the University of Delhi, India. Inspired by the ideas of Buddha and Kant at an early age, he holds a keen interest in the field of moral philosophy and is currently undertaking research on the relationship between religion and morality.

Ian James Kidd

Ian James Kidd is a lecturer in philosophy at the University of Nottingham. He previously worked at the universities of Durham and Leeds, teaching philosophy of religion, philosophy of science, and Indian philosophy. His current research interests include misanthropy, the philosophical significance of illness, and various themes in south and east Asian philosophy. His website is www.ianjameskidd.weebly.com.

Annalisa Koukouves

Annalisa Koukouves is a storyteller, copywriter, and creative writer. In the past 14 years, she has interviewed hundreds of experts in the worlds of art, science, technology, and business to help them tell their stories in the form of books, scripts, (scientific) articles, essays, opinion pieces, and online content. She was a finalist in the 47th New Millennium Writing Awards and in one of Script Pipeline’s contests. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in various outlets, including Pipeline Artists, Script Magazine, Thrive Global, and Daily Philosophy.

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Stephen Leach

Stephen Leach is an Honorary Senior Fellow at Keele University, UK. He writes on themes in philosophy, archaeology, art history and human evolution.

Academia.edu page: Stephen Leach

Paul Lodge

Paul Lodge is Professor of Philosophy at Oxford University and a professorial fellow of Mansfield College, Oxford. His published research is focussed on the philosophy of G.W. Leibniz. He has edited several volumes of papers on G. W. Leibniz, including an edition and translation of his Leibniz’s correspondence with De Volder (Yale, 2013), and, with Lloyd Strickland, Leibniz’s Key Philosophical Writings: A Guide (Oxford, 2020); and has published numerous articles on Leibniz’s philosophy.

He is also a musician and songwriter, and among his recent projects is Cantat Ergo Sumus, which consists of settings of philosophical poems.

Andreas Matthias

Andreas Matthias teaches philosophy, currently at an Asian university. He specialises in AI and robot ethics, but also teaches Philosophy of Happiness, Philosophy of Love, AI and Society, Misinformation and the Media, History of Philosophy and Philosophy of Technology courses. He is the author of a number of books and founder and editor of the Daily Philosophy web magazine, the Daily Philosophy weekly newsletter, the Accented Philosophy Podcast and the Daily Philosophy YouTube Channel. He is also writing genre fiction under pen names.

• Homepage: andreasmatthias.com
• Amazon author page.
• Google Scholar entry.

Michael McGhee

Michael McGhee used to teach philosophy at the University of Liverpool. He was a founding editor of Contemporary Buddhism (2000- Taylor and Francis) and is author of Transformations of Mind: Philosophy as Spiritual Practice (CUP 2000) and Spirituality for the Godless: Buddhism, Humanism, and Religion (CUP 2021).

Josh Milburn

Josh Milburn is a moral and political philosopher interested in questions about human/animal relationships, food, liberal/libertarian political theory, and applied ethics. He is a Lecturer in Political Philosophy based in the division of International Relations, Politics and History in the School of Social Sciences and Humanities at Loughborough University, where he leads the politics, philosophy, and economics degree.

Luis de Miranda

Luis de Miranda lives in Sweden and is a philosophical practitioner, author of essays such as Being & Neonness (MIT Press), Ensemblance (Edinburgh University Press), and novels such as Who Killed the Poet? and Paridaiza (Snuggly Books). Some of his books have been published in various languages, such as English, French, Chinese, Arabic, Swedish, etc.

He works currently as a researcher at the Center for Medical Humanities of Uppsala University, and is the founder of The Philosophical Parlour, through which he offers online philosophical counseling sessions to individuals around the world. He is currently working on the contemporary revival of philosophical health and a related theory of crealectic intelligence and practice, based on a process philosophy of creativity.

Nick Munn

Nick Munn is a Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Waikato. He works on Political Theory (with a focus on issues of enfranchisement) and Applied Ethics (with a focus on the status of virtual worlds and virtual actions). His publications include The Reality of Friendship within Immersive Virtual Worlds (2012), Friendship and Modern Life (2017), Against the Political Inclusion of the Incapable (2018), and Political Inclusion as a Means of Generating Justice for Children (2020).

John Young Myers

John Young Myers is the managing editor of the Journal of Patient-Centered Research and Reviews. While his professional life has focused on biology, scientific literacy, and medical publishing, his leisure time is often spent grappling with the free will problem, the hard problem of consciousness, and the problems of personal identity. John loves going through life with his astronomer wife, fun-loving son, and comically fluffy dog and is grateful to have joined the Daily Philosophy family. He can be reached via johnyoungmyers at gmail.

David A. Nicholls

David A. Nicholls writes on ParaDoxa and is a Professor at the School of Clinical Sciences at AUT University in Auckland, New Zealand. He is a physiotherapist, lecturer, researcher and writer, with a passion for critical thinking in and around the physical therapies. He is the founder of the Critical Physiotherapy Network. He has published more than 35 peer-reviewed articles and 17 book chapters. The End of Physiotherapy – the first book-length critical history of physiotherapy – was published by Routledge in 2017.

Burkay T. Ozturk

Burkay Ozturk is a Senior Lecturer of Philosophy at Texas State University and a lecturer of Liberal Arts at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. His area of specialization is Philosophy of Science but he has wide research and teaching interests.

His recent work includes “The Negotiative Theory of Gender Identity and The Limits of First-Person Authority”, “Speech and War: Rethinking The Ethics of Speech Restrictions”, “Can Sanders' Humanism be Completed?” and “Of German Tanks and Scientific Theories.”

Luca M. Possati

Luca M. Possati is researcher at the University of Porto, Portugal. Educated as philosopher, he has been lecturer at the Institut Catholique de Paris and associate researcher of the Fonds Ricoeur and EHESS (Ecole des hautes études en sciences sociales). He is associate editor for Humanities & Social Sciences Communications.

His research focuses on the philosophy of technology and in particular on the relationship between neuropsychanalysis, affective neurosciences, and artificial intelligence. His approach combines philosophy, psychology, and digital ethnography. The study of the formation and development of algorithmic biases through psychoanalytic methods is at the core of his project.

Louai Rahal

Louai Rahal is an assistant professor at the School of Public and Global Affairs at Fairleigh Dickinson University. He teaches ethics and conducts research on the Kantian theory of morality and its application to classical and contemporary ethical questions such as the moral limits of markets, the rights of natural and technological nonrational entities, the privacy rights and copyrights of internet users, and the right and duty to learn and contribute to the learning of others.

Brentyn J. Ramm

Brentyn J. Ramm is a Humboldt postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Psychology and Psychotherapy at Witten/Herdecke University in Germany. His research focuses on using first-person experimental methods to investigate conscious experience (experimental phenomenology). He completed his PhD in philosophy at the Australian National University in 2016. His honours in philosophy was at the University of Queensland. Before this he completed a PhD in cognitive psychology at the University of Queensland in 2006.

Website: https://sites.google.com/view/brentynramm

Brian Redekopp

Brian Redekopp is Chair of the Humanities and Philosophy Department and Coordinator of the Society and Technology program at Dawson College in Montreal, Canada. His research interests include Husserl’s phenomenology, the philosophy of technology, and the philosophy of humour and comedy.

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Robert Rodriguez

Robert Rodriguez is a life-long researcher and chronicler of hermit life and the history of hermits. He is author of The Book of Hermits: A History of Hermits from Antiquity to the Present (Hermitary Press, 2021), and also the founder and editor of the website Hermitary (hermitary.com).

Luke Roelofs

Luke Roelofs is a postdoc at NYU’s Centre for Mind, Brain, and Consciousness. They work on consciousness – how it’s structured, how we can know about it, and how it matters. They are the author of Combining Minds, a book about the possibility of composite minds, and Empathic Reason, a book in progress about the ethical significance of imagination; more information about their work is available at lukeroelofs.com.

Livio Rossetti

Livio Rossetti has been professor of ancient philosophy at the University of Perugia (Italy) for decades, until his retirement. He currently lives in Perugia.

He is known as the founder of (a) the International Plato Society in 1989, (b) the Eleatica conferences in 2004, (c) the Socratica conferences in 2005, (d) the semi-annual Amica Sofia magazine in 2007, and (e) the Italian association for philosophy with children Amica Sofia in 2008.

His latest book is Thales the Measurer (Abingdon-New York 2022: Routledge).

Daniel Sadasivan

Daniel Sadasivan is an assistant professor of physics at Ave Maria University. In addition to his research in physics, he has a strong interest in other fields including philosophy, literature, and mathematics. He can be reached at daniel.sadasivan@avemaria.edu.

Thomas O. Scarborough

Thomas O. Scarborough is the author of Everything, Briefly: A Postmodern Philosophy (2022). He is an ex UK top ten philosophy website editor and a Congregational minister.

Contact:​ http://www.thomas-scarborough.com/

John Shand

Dr John Shand is a Visiting Fellow in Philosophy at the Open University. He studied philosophy at the University of Manchester and King’s College, University of Cambridge. He has taught at Cambridge, Manchester and the Open University. The author of numerous articles, reviews, and edited books, his own books include, Arguing Well (London: Routledge, 2000) and Philosophy and Philosophers: An Introduction to Western Philosophy, 2nd edition (London: Routledge, 2014).

Contact information:

• Dr John Shand, The Open University, Walton Hall, Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, MK7 6AA, United Kingdom.
• https://open.academia.edu/JohnShand
• http://fass.open.ac.uk/philosophy/people

Andrei Simionescu-Panait

Andrei Simionescu-Panait is a philosophy Lecturer at the Polytechnic University in Bucharest, teaching philosophy of technology and history of philosophy courses. He also works as a philosophical counselor and critical thinking coach for psychologists, teachers, and company employees. His research combines phenomenology and Socratic dialogue techniques and is being directed at improving the learning experience for students with the help of instruments from both philosophical traditions.

James Tartaglia

James Tartaglia is Professor of Metaphysical Philosophy at Keele University, UK. He is the author of Philosophy in a Meaningless Life (Bloomsbury 2016), Philosophy in a Technological World: GODS AND TITANS (Bloomsbury 2020), and (with Tracy Llanera) A Defence of Nihilism (Routledge 2021). He is also a jazz musician who makes jazz-philosophy fusion. For more information, including many sample writings and recordings, visit: https://jamestartaglia.com

Daan H. Teer

Daan H. Teer is a freelance author who publishes in digital and traditional media. His focus is on culture, politics, and philosophy in the Dutch and English-speaking world. Online, he writes The Hummingbird: a platform for philosophy, liberalism, and freethought in the 21st century.

Ezechiel Thibaud

Ezechiel Thibaud is a visiting assistant lecturer in philosophy at Lingnan University in Hong Kong. She has specialized in moral and political philosophy. Her current research interests include liberal and republican freedom, theories of autonomy, the impact of technology on agency, corporation power and market ethics. She is also the co-host of the Accented Philosophy podcast. You can reach her at: ezechielthibaud (at) ln.hk.

Christopher Tricker

Christopher Tricker is an independent write​r who taught himself Classical Chinese so that he could find out what Chuang Tzu says. His edition and translation of Chuang Tzu’s long-lost book is published as The Cicada and The Bird. The Usefulness of a Useless Philosophy. Chuang Tzu’s Wisdom Translated for Modern Life (2022).

Christopher practices psychotherapy in Lismore, NSW, Australia.

Contact:​ pathapprover​ (at) gmail.com

David Villena

David Villena, Ph.D., teaches in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Hong Kong. Website: www.davidvillena.com

Dan Weijers

Dan Weijers is a Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Waikato. His main research interests are wellbeing, moral judgments, and the ethics of new and emerging technologies. Dan is a founding co-editor of the International Journal of Wellbeing, founding member of the Australasian Experimental Philosophy Research Group, international editorial board member of Rowman & Littlefield’s book series on “Behavioural Applied Ethics”, and editorial review board member for the International Journal of Technoethics. He has published in philosophy, psychology, economics, and public policy journals. More information and links to publications can be found at www.danweijers.com.

Lucy Weir

Dr Lucy Weir is an independent researcher, writer and facilitator whose emphasis is on philosophy as a practice, particularly in response to the ecological emergency, a phrase that encompasses both the urgent and critical nature of the Anthropocene and our collective inclination to deal with its impacts as though they are happening outside us. Her writing and facilitation focuses on addressing this fragmentary approach.

After a number of years volunteering in the global South, her postgraduate career began under the supervision of the late Emeritus Professor Barbara Harrell-Bond, founder of Oxford University’s Refugee Studies Programme. After moving to Ireland, the catalyst for Dr Weir’s further research, encompassing the wider philosophical and social issues of the ecological emergency, was the Corrib gas controversy.

Publications and contributions to publications include Fleeing Vesuvius (FEASTA, 2010), 1001 Ideas that changed the way we think (Quarto, 2013), 1001 quotations to inspire you before you die (Cassell, 2016), Love is Green: compassion as responsibility in the ecological emergency (Vernon, 2019) and Urgent Matters: philosophy as practice in the ecological emergency (Palgrave Macmillan, forthcoming). Information about current and upcoming courses and consultancy work can be found at www.knowyogaireland.com.

Glory White

Glory White is a lecturer and writer whose interests include religion, history, and science. She lives with her husband and two mischievous children and eats way too much sushi. Glory’s book, 50 Answers: How World Religions Grapple with Life’s Biggest Questions, is available on Amazon.com.

F. Andrew Wolf Jr

F. Andrew Wolf Jr is presently Director of The Fulcrum Institute, an organization of current and former scholars in the Humanities, Arts and Sciences. He holds 2 masters degrees in philosophy and philosophical theology and the Sacrae Theologiae Diploma. He publishes through both US (American Spectator, The Thinking Conservative, Academic Questions: National Association of Scholars) and international media (International Policy Digest, Eurasia Review, Cairo Review of Global Affairs, Daily Philosophy). Forthcoming is the text, Our Sense of Relatedness to that Other as well as texts on Russian history and philosophical theology.

Roman V. Yampolskiy

Dr. Roman V. Yampolskiy is a Tenured Associate Professor in the department of Computer Science and Engineering at the Speed School of Engineering, University of Louisville. He is the founding and current director of the Cyber Security Lab and an author of many books including Artificial Superintelligence: a Futuristic Approach. During his tenure at UofL, Dr. Yampolskiy has been recognized as: Distinguished Teaching Professor, Professor of the Year, Faculty Favorite, Top 4 Faculty, Leader in Engineering Education, Top 10 of Online College Professor of the Year, and Outstanding Early Career in Education award winner among many other honors and distinctions. Yampolskiy is a Senior member of IEEE and AGI; Member of Kentucky Academy of Science. Dr. Yampolskiy’s main areas of interest are AI Safety and Cybersecurity. Dr. Yampolskiy is an author of over 200 publications including multiple journal articles and books. His research has been cited by 1000+ scientists and profiled in popular magazines both American and foreign, hundreds of websites, on radio and TV. Dr. Yampolskiy’s research has been featured 1000+ times in numerous media reports in 30+ languages. Dr. Yampolskiy has been an invited speaker at 100+ events including Swedish National Academy of Science, Supreme Court of Korea, Princeton University and many others.

Robert Zaborowski

Robert Zaborowski is Professor at the Institute for the History of Science, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw.

He studied philosophy at Paris I Panthéon–Sorbonne. He specializes in history of Greek philosophy and philosophy of affectivity and is the author of several articles, reviews, edited books, and two own books: La crainte et le courage dans l' Iliade et l' Odyssée (2002) and Sur le sentiment chez les Présocratiques (2008).

Since 2013 he has been Editor of Organon.

Contact:

https://www.ihnpan.pl/robert-zaborowski-en/
https://pan-pl.academia.edu/RobertZaborowski

Luka Zurkic

Luka Zurkic, graduate student assistant at the University of Frankfurt, Germany, is mainly interested in aesthetic theory, especially the value and consequences of Adorno’s aesthetics for contemporary aesthetics. He holds a BA and MA in Philosophy from Goethe University Frankfurt. He aims to make philosophy accessible to a wider audience by participating in essay competitions organised by the Swiss Portal for Philosophy, and by organising and teaching weekly discussions on aesthetics at the University of Frankfurt. Contact: lukazurkic (at) aol.com.