TAYLOR CARMAN
Taylor Carman is professor of philosophy at Barnard College, Columbia University. He is the author of Heidegger’s Analytic (2003) and Merleau-Ponty (2nd ed. 2019) and co-editor of The Cambridge Companion to Merleau-Ponty (2004). He has published articles on a variety of topics in phenomenology and existentialism, including language, selfhood, anxiety, death, art, technology, truth, and the meaning of being. In his free time he enjoys translating German poetry and playing the mandolin.
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ERIC KAPLAN
Eric Kaplan has an M.A. in philosophy from Columbia University where he studied medieval philosophy and philosophy of science and a PhD. from UC Berkeley where he studied philosophy of mind and philosophy of language and wrote his dissertation on "Kierkegaard and the Funny". His book "Does Santa Exist: A Philosophical Investigation" was described by Matt Groening as "the funniest philosophy book since…well, ever." As a television writer, he has written for Futurama, The Flight of the Conchords, The Big Bang Theory, and Young Sheldon, and his stories have appeared in The New York Times.
