Lawrence Shapiro is the Berent Enç Professor of Philosophy at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA. The American Philosophical Association awarded his book Embodied Cognition the Gittler Award for outstanding contribution in the field of philosophy of the social sciences (second edition 2019, Routledge).

Shannon Spaulding is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at Oklahoma State University, USA. Her research focuses on social cognition, imagination, and embodied cognition. She is the author of the book How We Understand Others: Philosophy and Social Cognition (Routledge 2018).