Who are we?

Helen Beebee is a philosopher based at the University of Leeds. She has written and edited a bunch of academic philosophy books, but she's also written a couple of philosophy books for a general audience: Free Will: An Introduction (Palgrave Macmillan 2013) and Philosophy, Why it Matters (Polity 2019, with Michael Rush), which has so far been translated into Chinese, Japanese, Spanish and Arabic. She is President of the British Philosophical Association and a Fellow of the British Academy.

Matthew Elton is a psychotherapist and supervisor based in Edinburgh. He works with a wide range of clients and practitioners, but has a special interest in work related to writers and artists. His formative training was in Transactional Analysis and he has since developed a strong interest in narrative therapy.  He has published a book for therapists and counsellors: Talking It Better: From Insight To Change In The Therapy Room (PCCS, 2021). He is also author of a philosophy book, Daniel Dennett: Reconciling Science and Our Self-conception (Polity, 2003).