Francesco Fanti Rovetta is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Ruhr University Bochum, Germany. His research focuses on the relation between cognitive processes (such as memory, inner speech, and rumination), personal identity, and digital technologies. He is a member of the research unit FOR 2812 ‘Constructing scenarios of the past: A new framework in episodic memory,’ which is funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG). He is also an associated researcher in the DFG-funded Research Training Group ‘Situated Cognition’.

Patrick Stokes is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Deakin University. He is currently working on the ARC Discovery Project ‘Digital Death and Immortality’ (2024-26). His most recent book is Digital Souls: A Philosophy of Online Death (Bloomsbury, 2021).

Marilyn Stendera is a Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Wollongong. Her research focuses primarily on the phenomenological tradition, the philosophy of cognition, and the history of philosophy. She is particularly interested in time, and is the co-author (with Emily Hughes) of the recently-published book Heidegger’s Alternative History of Time (Routledge).

Richard Menary is Professor of Philosophy at Macquarie University. He is the Head of the School of Humanities. From 2018 to 2023, he was Head of the Department of Philosophy. Between 2014 and 2018 he was an ARC Future Fellow and before that he was a Senior Research Fellow at the ARC Centre of Excellence in Cognition and its Disorders at Macquarie. He read for a BA in philosophy at the University of Ulster, an MSc in Cognitive Science at the University of Birmingham and then a PhD in philosophy at King's College London. He has taught and researched at universities in the United Kingdom and Australia. He has published widely on extended, embodied and distributed cognition and the enculturation of cognition. He has also written on: neural plasticity, symbolic cognition – particularly reading and mathematical cognition, the cultural evolution of social cognition, pragmatism and cognitive science and embodied narratives and the self.

Regina Fabry is a philosopher of mind and cognition and works as a Lecturer in the Discipline of Philosophy, School of Humanities at Macquarie University. Her research currently focusses on self-narration, grief, human-technology interactions, and their intersections. In working on these topics, she brings together philosophical theorising on situated cognition and affectivity with feminist scholarship and research in literary and cultural studies, the empirical cognitive sciences, and Artificial Intelligence.