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Professor Maria Rosa Antognazza is Professor of Philosophy at Kings College London. She works on early modern philosophy, especially Leibniz, as well as epistemology and philosophy of religion.

Professor Ben Colburn is Professor of Political Philosophy at the University of Glasgow. He works on political philosophy and ethics and has a particular interest in the nature and value of autonomy and its importance in liberal political philosophy.

Professor Fiona Ellis is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Roehampton and Director of the Centre for Practical Philosophy, Theology, and Religion. Her research interests are in philosophy of religion, philosophical idealism, naturalism, the philosophy of love and desire, and the meaning of life.

Professor John Haldane is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the University of St Andrews and Director of the Centre for Ethics, Philosophy and Public Affairs. He has research interests in philosophy of mind, the history of philosophy, especially Aquinas and Reid, and social and political philosophy.

Professor Beth Lord is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Aberdeen. She works in the history of philosophy, both modern and early modern, and in recent continental philosophy.

Professor O’Brien is Professor of Philosophy at University College London and the co-editor of Mind. She is the author of Self-Knowing Agents and co-editor of Mental Actions.

Dr Lea Salje is Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Leeds. Her main research interests are in the philosophy of mind, and in particular on topics of first person thought and self-consciousness.

Professor Constantine Sandis is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Hertfordshire. He works on philosophy of action, as well as on ethics and the history of ideas.

Professor of Philosophy at the University of Sussex, Professor Sawyer is author of articles on philosophy of mind, language, metaphysics and epistemology. She is editor of New Waves in Philosophy of Language.

Dr Rachael Wiseman is Senior Lecturer at the University of Liverpool. She works at the intersection of philosophy of mind, action and ethics, as well as on the history of analytic philosophy.

Dr David Edmonds is a Distinguished Research Fellow at the Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics at Oxford University and a former BBC radio journalist. He is the author or editor of many philosophy books (and one on chess) which together have been translated into over two dozen languages. These include (with John Eidinow), Wittgenstein’s Poker and, most recently, a biography, Parfit: A Philosopher and his Mission to Save Morality. David also hosts a couple of philosophy podcasts. Philosophy Bites, which he makes with Nigel Warburton, has had over 45 million downloads.

Professor James Wilson is Professor of Philosophy at University College London. He has published widely on public health ethics, the philosophy of public policy, and on the ownership and governance of ideas and information. His research uses philosophy to help resolve practical problems, and uses practical problems to investigate gaps and weaknesses in existing philosophical theories.