Eric Schwitzgebel is Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of California, Riverside, where he has taught since 1997. His areas of expertise include- Philosophy of Mind, Experimental Philosophy, Moral Psychology, Epistemology. He is the author or editor of five previous books, including two from MITP- Perplexities of Consciousness (2011) and Describing Inner Experience? (2007).

Dr John Chu is Senior National Curator, Midlands (Pictures and Sculpture) at the National Trust. He specialises in 18th-century British and French painting and has published and lectured widely on the art of Thomas Gainsborough and Joshua Reynolds. He previously worked at Tate on the Turner Bequest and has taught at the Courtauld Institute of Art and the University of Reading.

Neil Clarke is the editor of Clarkesworld and Forever Magazine; owner of Wyrm Publishing; and a five-time Hugo Award Nominee for Best Editor (short form).

He currently lives in New Jersey with his wife and two children.