A Companion to Public Philosophy

Notes on Contributors

Peter Adamson is Professor of Late Ancient and Arabic Philosophy at the LMU in Munich. He is the author of Al‐Kindi and Al‐Razi in the series Great Medieval Thinkers and has edited or co‐edited many books, including The Cambridge Companion to Arabic Philosophy and Interpreting Avicenna: Critical Essays. He is also the host of the History of Philosophy podcast (https://historyofphilosophy.net/), which appears as a series of books with Oxford University Press.

Anita L. Allen is an attorney and the Henry R. Silverman Professor of Law and Professor of Philosophy at the University of Pennsylvania. A past president of the American Philosophical Association, Allen is a member of the National Academy of Medicine and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Allen has served on the National Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues and the boards of the National Constitution Center and the Electronic Privacy Information Center. A globally recognized expert on privacy, data protection, and values, Allen’s books include Unpopular Privacy, The New Ethics, and Why Privacy Isn’t Everything. Allen has been a columnist and featured on NPR and in newspapers, magazines, and blogs, including The New York Times, The Stone, and What It’s Like to Be a Philosopher.

John Altmann is an independent scholar in philosophy who has published most extensively with the Popular Culture and Philosophy book series produced by OpenCourt Publishing, which seeks to disseminate philosophical ...