Thomas Hardy Leahey received a PhD in Cognitive Psychology from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign under the direction of William F. Brewer. He is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association and the Association for Psychological Science. He has been President of the Society for the History of Psychology (Division 26 of APA), and Society for Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology (Division 24 of the APA). He is also author of Fundamentals of Cognitive Science and co-author (with Grace Leahey) of Psychology's Occult Doubles: Psychology and the Problem of pseudoscience. He is Professor Emeritus of Psychology from Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, Virginia.