Becky Millar is a lecturer in Philosophy at Cardiff University. Their primary research areas are philosophy of mind and cognitive science, with an emphasis on emotion, perception, and ‘4E’ (embodied, embedded, enactive, and extended) cognition. Much of their research has focused on difficult-to-articulate experiences, such as the emotional experience of grief and the perceptual phenomenology of smell and flavour. They have also written on horror films and emotion regulation.  

Dr. Jussi Saarinen is a Senior Researcher at the Department of Social Sciences and Philosophy at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland. His primary interests lie in 4E philosophy of mind, aesthetics and artistic creativity, and psychoanalysis. These interests are brought together in his book Affect in Artistic Creativity: Painting to Feel (Routledge, 2020). Currently Saarinen is working on a research project titled Situated Mind and Artistic Creativity (funded by the Research Council of Finland for 2023–2027). More on this project can be found at:

https://www.jyu.fi/en/projects/situated-mind-and-artistic-creativity

Dr Louise Richardson-Self is a feminist philosopher and Senior Lecturer in Philosophy & Gender Studies at the University of Tasmania. Her research operationalises social imaginaries theory to make sense of contemporary social phenomena, focusing on queer rights, women’s rights, oppression, discrimination, violence, and liberation. She is the author of Same-Sex Marriage: A Philosophical Investigation (2015) & Hate Speech Against Women Online: Concepts and Countermeasures (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).

Emily Hughes is an ARC Discovery Early Career Research Award (DECRA) fellow in the Discipline of Philosophy, School of Humanities at Macquarie University. She was previously a postdoctoral research associate in philosophy at the University of York. Her research is situated in the intersection between existential phenomenology and the philosophy of psychiatry and psychology, with a particular focus on phenomenological interpretations of affect and the way in which emotions modify temporal, spatial and bodily experience. 

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, Sydney. From 2021 to 2024, she held an ARC Discovery Early Career Research Award (DECRA). 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.