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David Chalmers
is Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Center for ConsciousnessStudies at the University of Arizona. He is author of 
The Conscious Mind: In Search of aFundamental Theory 
(Oxford University Press, 1996). He is especially interested inconsciousness, artificial intelligence, metaphysics, and meaning.
Andy Clark
is Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Cognitive Science Program atIndiana University, Bloomington, USA. He is the author of five books, including BeingThere: Putting Brain, Body And World Together Again (MIT Press, 1997) and Natural-BornCyborgs: Minds, Technologies and the Future of Human Intelligence (Oxford UniversityPress, 2003). He is especially interested in robotics, neural control systems, and the role of the body and the world in thought and reason.
Julia Driver
currently teaches at Dartmouth College. Her main research interests are inethical theory and moral psychology, and she has published a book (
Uneasy Virtue
,Cambridge) and a variety of articles in the area of normative ethical theory. She isco-editor of the Normative Ethics section of 
The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy 
.(
http://plato.stanford.edu
)
Hubert Dreyfus
was educated at Harvard and teaches philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley. His research interests bridge the Analytic and Continental traditions in20th-century philosophy. He has written books on Heidegger (
Being-in-the-World 
, MITPress), and on Artificial Intelligence. (
What Computers (Still) Can’t Do
, MIT Press). Dreyfusrecently published
On the Internet 
(Routledge), and is working on a book with CharlesTaylor tentatively entitled,
Retrieving Realism
.
Stephen Dreyfus
is a graduate of Video Symphony, just beginning his professional careeras a digital film editor. He has worked as an Assistant Editor on several independent films.A long time amateur philosopher, he is always looking for new and interesting ways tobring his surrealist stories and ideas to the entertainment world. His email address islorde_red@lycos.com.
Frances Flannery-Dailey
received her Ph.D. from the University of Iowa, and is AssistantProfessor of Religion at Hendrix College in Conway, Arkansas. She teaches courses in Bible,Religion and Culture and Judaism. Her main area of research is apocalypticism in earlyJudaism (300 B.C.E.-200 C.E.), and she is currently writing a book for Brill Publishersentitled
Dreamers, Mystics and Heavenly Priests: Dreams in Second Temple Judaism
.
Christopher Grau
was educated at Johns Hopkins University and New York University. In
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addition to editing the "Philosophy & 
The Matrix 
" section of 
The Matrix 
website, Chris isAssistant Professor of Philosophy at Florida International University in Miami. He haspreviously taught at Dartmouth College, Johns Hopkins University, Brooklyn College, andthe University of Maryland, Baltimore County. His current research involves the ethicalramifications of theories of personal identity.
Sean Greenberg
received his Ph.D. from Harvard University. He teaches at the JohnsHopkins University; his teaching and research centers on the history of early modernphilosophy, and he is currently writing a book about early modern accounts of free will.
Richard Hanley
was educated at Sydney University and the University of Maryland,College Park. He is the author of 
The Metaphysics of Star Trek 
(reprinted in paperback as
Is Data Human? 
), and is co-editor of the forthcoming
Blackwell Guide to the Philosophy of Language
. He works on metaphysics, philosophy of language, and ethics, and dabbles intime travel fiction; and is gainfully employed in the Philosophy department at theUniversity of Delaware.
Colin McGinn
was educated at Oxford University. He has written widely on philosophy andphilosophers in such publications as the
New York Review of Books
, the
London Review of Books
, the
New Republic 
, and the
New York Times Book Review 
. McGinn has writtenfourteen books, including
The Making of a Philosopher; The Mysterious Flame; TheCharacter of Mind; Ethics, Evil and Fiction;
and the novel
The Space Trap
. He is currently aProfessor of Philosophy at Rutgers University.
Michael McKenna
received his Ph.D. from the University of Virginia in 1993. He is anAssociate Professor of Philosophy in the Department of Philosophy and Religion at IthacaCollege. McKenna has published various articles on the topics of free will and moralresponsibility. He is currently working on a book devoted to a communication-basedaccount of morally responsible agency. McKenna teaches courses in metaphysics, moraland political philosophy, and philosophy in film.
T.J. Mawson
was educated at Oxford University and has never left; he is currently Fellowand Tutor in Philosophy at St Peter’s College. His main area of research interest is ThePhilosophy of Religion, but he has also published on The History of Philosophy and Ethics.
John Partridge
is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Wheaton College in Norton,Massachusetts where he teaches courses in aesthetics, philosophy and literature, and thephilosophy of the emotions. He received a Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University and haspublished articles on Plato in
 Ancient Philosophy 
and
Skepsis
.
James Pryor
was educated and teaches philosophy at Princeton. He has published on theepistemology of perception, and works primarily on philosophical issues concerning themind and knowledge.
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