Eckart Förster is Professor of Philosophy, German and the Humanities at The Johns Hopkins University and Honorary Professor of Philosophy at the Humboldt Universität, Berlin. His most recent publications include The Twenty-Five Years of Philosophy (2012) and Kant's Final Synthesis (2000).
Yitzhak Y. Melamed is Associate Professor of Philosophy and the Humanities at The Johns Hopkins University. He is the author of Spinoza's Metaphysics of Substance and Thought (forthcoming) and co-editor, with Michael A. Rosenthal, of Spinoza's Theological-Political Treatise (2010).