Charles T. Wolfe is Professor of Modern and Contemporary Philosophy at the Université de Toulouse-2 Jean-Jaurès. He is the author of Materialism: A Historico-Philosophical Introduction(2016), La philosophie de la biologie avant la biologie: une histoire du vitalisme(2019) and Lire le matérialisme(2020), and has edited or coedited volumes on empiricism, mechanism and vitalism, Locke and Canguilhem, monsters, brains and biology.
Anik Waldow is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Sydney and Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities. She is the author of Hume and the Problem of Other Minds (2009) and Experience Embodied: Early Modern Accounts of the Human Place in Nature (2020) and has edited several volumes, including Sensibility in the Early ModernEra: From Living Machines to Affective Morality (2016) and Herder: Philosophy and Anthropology (with N. DeSouza, 2017).