Stephen Gaukroger, who was educated at the University of London and the University of Cambridge, is Emeritus Professor of History of Philosophy and History of Science at the University of Sydney. He is the author of fourteen books and the editor of nine collections of essays.

Knox Peden is Senior Lecturer in European Enlightenment Studies at the University of Queensland, Australia. He is the author of Spinoza Contra Phenomenology: French Rationalism from Cavaillÿs to Deleuze (2014) and has published widely on twentieth-century French thought in historical and philosophical journals.