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Erik Myin is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Antwerp and Director of the Centre
for Philosophical Psychology. He has recently published two books, Radicalizing Enactivism: Basic
Minds without Content (MIT Press, 2013) and Evolving Enactivism: Basic Minds Meet Content (MIT
Press, 2017), both written with Daniel Hutto.


Andrew Peterson is a Research Assistant Professor at George Mason University and Research
Fellow in the Institute for Philosophy and Public Policy in the Washington, D.C., metro area.


Ian Phillips is Professor in Philosophy of Psychology in the Department of Philosophy at the
University of Birmingham. He is also currently a Visiting Research Scholar in the Program in
Cognitive Science at Princeton University, New Jersey. His work primarily focuses on topics at
the intersection of philosophy of mind and cognitive science, most notably issues concerning
temporal experience, the nature and limits of perceptual consciousness, and the metaphysics of
perception. He has just published The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Temporal Experience
(Routledge, 2017).


Gualtiero Piccinini is Professor of Philosophy and Associate Director of the Center for
Neurodynamics at the University of Missouri–St. Louis. He has published over 50 articles in the
philosophy of mind and related sciences. His book, Physical Computation: A Mechanistic Account,
was published in 2015 by Oxford University Press.


David Pitt is Professor of Philosophy at California State University, Los Angeles. He has pub-
lished papers on topics in the philosophy of mind, the philosophy of language, and metaphysics.
He is currently at work on a manuscript, The Quality of Thought, to be published by Oxford
University Press.


Paavo Pylkkänen is Senior Lecturer in Theoretical Philosophy, Vice Dean of Faculty of Arts
(Research) and Head of Department of Philosophy, History and Art Studies at the University of
Helsinki, Finland. He is also an Associate Professor in Theoretical Philosophy at the University of
Skövde, Sweden. His research areas are philosophy of mind and the foundations of quantum theory.
In particular, he has studied the relevance of David Bohm’s interpretation of quantum theory to prob-
lems in scientific metaphysics. He is the author of Mind, Matter and the Implicate Order (Springer, 2007).


Vicente Raja is a PhD Candidate in the Philosophy Department at the University of Cincinnati,
Ohio. His main field of research is philosophy of cognitive science, paying special attention to
embodied approaches to perception, action, and cognition.


Antti Revonsuo is Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience at the University of Skövde, Sweden,
and Professor of Psychology at the University of Turku, Finland. He has been conducting both
philosophical and empirical research on consciousness since the early 1990s. His empirical work
focuses on dreaming as a conscious state and on the neural correlates of visual consciousness.
His philosophical views are presented in two books, Inner Presence: Consciousness as a Biological
Phenomenon (The MIT Press, 2006) and Consciousness: The Science of Subjectivity (Routledge/
Psychology Press, 2010).


William S. Robinson is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at Iowa State University. He writes
on issues in philosophy of mind, with special attention to consciousness, mental causation, and
artificial intelligence. His books include Understanding Phenomenal Consciousness (Cambridge

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