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Michael Friedman earned his PhD from Princeton University in 1973. Before moving to Stanford University, where he is currently Frederick P. Rehmus Family Professor of Humanities, he taught at the Universities of Pennsylvania, Illinois Chicago, and Indiana. He has published widely on the philosophy of space and time, Kant and the interaction between philosophy and the exact sciences, the prospects for post-Kuhnian philosophy of science in light of these developments, and the relationship between analytic and continental traditions in the early twentieth century. For more information see his homepage.

Christopher Hitchcock earned a PhD from the University of Pittsburgh after completing his undergraduate studies at Princeton University. He is currently Professor of Philosophy at the California Institute of Technology, where he has been since 1998. His research covers a wide range of areas, among them general philosophy of science topics as causation, explanation, and confirmation, but also philosophy of biology and linguistics. Much of this work involves the application of probability theory to philosophical problems in original ways. Three of his articles on causation (from 1995, 2001 and 2003) have been reprinted in The Philosopher's Annual. For more information see his homepage.

Hannes Leitgeb earned a PhD in mathematics in 1998 and in philosophy in 2001 from the University of Salzburg, Austria. Since 2005, he has a joint position at the Departments of Philosophy and Mathematics in Bristol, being promoted to Professor of Mathematical Logic and Philosophy of Mathematics in 2007. His main research areas are in logic, cognitive science, philosophy of mathematics, philosophy of science and history of philosophy. His research is unified by his pursuit of fruitful applications of logical and mathematical methods to philosophy. For more information see his homepage.

Samir Okasha earned his PhD from the University of Oxford in 1998. He joined the Department of Philosophy at Bristol University in 2003 where he is currently Professor of Philosophy of Science. He is specialized in the philosophy of evolutionary biology and has additional research interests in general philosophy of science, epistemology and metaphysics, philosophy of economics and the interface of philosophy, evolutionary biology, and economics. For more information see his homepage.