M. R. Bennett is Professor of Neuroscience, University Chair
and Scientific Director of the Brain and Mind Research Institute at
the University of Sydney. He is the author of many papers and books
on neuroscience as well as the history and philosophy of
neuroscience, including The Idea of Consciousness (1997) and
A History of the Synapse (2001). He is past President of the
International Society for Autonomic Neuroscience, past President of
the Australian Neuroscience Society, as well as the recipient of
numerous awards for his research, including the Neuroscience Medal,
the Ramaciotti Medal, the Macfarlane Burnet Medal and the Order of
Australia.

P. M. S. Hacker is an Emeritus Research Fellow of St
John's College, Oxford, UK. He is the author of numerous
books and articles on philosophy of the mind and philosophy of
language, and is the leading authority on the philosophy of
Wittgenstein. Among his many publications is the four-volume
Analytical Commentary on Wittgenstein's Philosophical
Investigations, and its epilogue, Wittgenstein's Place in
Twentieth Century Analytic Philosophy. His most recent work is
Human Nature: The Categorial Framework, the first volume of
a trilogy on human nature.

Together, M. R. Bennet and P. M. S. Hacker have authored the
acclaimed Philosophical Foundations of Neuroscience
(Blackwell, 2003).