John Perry is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the University of California at Riverside, and Henry Waldgrave Stuart Professor of Philosophy Emeritus at Stanford University.
He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a recipient of many honors and awards, including the Nicod and Humboldt Prizes. A popular lecturer, in 1990 he was awarded the Dinkelspiel Award for undergraduate teaching.
He is the author of over 100 articles and books, including A Dialogue on Personal Identity and Immortality, Knowledge, Possibility, and Consciousness, and Reference and Reflexivity.
He also has the internet’s most popular essay on procrastination.
Ken Taylor is the current Henry Waldgrave Stuart Professor of Philosophy at Stanford University. He is also director of Stanford’s interdisciplinary program in Symbolic Systems.
His work lies at the intersection of the philosophy of language and the philosophy of mind, with an occasional foray into the history of philosophy.
He is the author of many books and articles, including Truth and Meaning, Reference and the Rational Mind, and Referring to the World. He is hard at work on his magnum opus book long in the making called A Natural History of Normativity, in which he reduces all things normative to something merely natural.