Marina F. Bykova is Professor of Philosophy at North Carolina State University, USA. She is the author of Hegel’s Interpretation of Thinking (1990), The Mystery of Logic and the Secret of Subjectivity (1996), and co-author (with Andrei Krichevsky) of Absolute Idea and Absolute Spirit in Hegel's Philosophy (1993). She is also the editor of Russian translation of Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit (2000) and most recently of Hegel’s Philosophy of Spirit: Cambridge Critical Guide (2019) and The German Idealism Reader: Ideas, Responses and Legacy (forthcoming in 2020).
Kenneth R. Westphal is Professor of Philosophy at Bogaziçi University, Turkey. He has published widely on Kant’s and Hegel’s theoretical and practical philosophies, both systematically and historically. His books include Kant’s Transcendental Proof of Realism (2004) Grounds of Pragmatic Realism: Hegel’s Internal Critique & Transformation ofKant’s Critical Philosophy (2017), and Hegel's Civic Republicanism: Integrating Natural Law with Kant's Moral Constructivism (forthcoming 2020).