Massimo Pigliucci is the K.D Irani Professor of Philosophy at the City College of New York. He has a doctorate in genetics from the University of Ferrar (Italy), a PhD in Evolutionary Biology from the University of Connecticut, and a PhD in Philosophy from the University of Tennessee. His research interests include the relationship between science and philosophy and the nature of pseudoscience.

Dr Skye Cleary is a philosopher and the author who teaches and Columbia and Barnard on the philosophy of love and sex as well as the philosophy of leadership and management. She is author of Existentialism and Romantic Love (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015) and co-editor, with Massimo Pigliucci and Daniel Kaufman, of How to Live a Good Life (forthcoming, Vintage, 2020). She is the Editor-in-Chief of the Blog of theAmerican Philosophical Association and a certified fellow with the American Philosophical Practitioners' Association. Cleary authored the script for the TED-Ed animation 'Why We Love- A Philosophical Inquiry.' It has had over 2.5 million views. She is also the winner of the New Philosopher Magazine Writers' Award.