Dr Mike Ryder is a lecturer in Marketing at Lancaster University (UK). His research sits at the intersection between literature, philosophy, history, technology studies and social science. He also conducts practice-based research relating to digital marketing and work-based learning. His website is www.mjryder.net.
Dr Thomas Arnold is assistant professor (akademischer Rat) at the Philosophical Seminar of the University of Heidelberg. He has interests in both ancient metaphysics and phenomenology (which resulted in his Dissertation Phänomenologie als Platonismus) and is currently working on his Habilitation on Plato, Plotinus & Nicolas of Cusa, concerning philosophical thematization (i.e., how we acquire topics in philosophy, what we do then, and whether we ever stop doing it). Apart from these scholarly matters, he also pursues public philosophy when- and wherever he can: in schools, in jail, and in the streets for example.
Dr Chris Dows is professional writer and Associate Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Lincoln. He has contributed to the Star Trek franchise for the last four decades and is also a published Black Library author.
