Christopher Janaway is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Southampton, and was formerly Professor of Philosophy at Birkbeck College, University of London. He has written extensively on the philosophy of Nietzsche and Schopenhauer and on aesthetics. He has been principal investigator on the AHRC-funded project 'Nietzsche and Modern Moral Philosophy' at Southampton and is general editor of the Cambridge Edition of the Works of Schopenhauer. His most recently published book is Beyond Selflessness: Reading Nietzsche's Genealogy (2007).
Simon Robertson is a Lecturer in Philosophy at Cardiff University. After completing a PhD at the University of St Andrews, he lectured at the Universities of Leeds, Stirling and York, and held a postdoctoral research fellowship as part of the Nietzsche and Modern Moral Philosophy project at the University of Southampton. His main philosophical background lies at the intersection of contemporary metaethics, practical reason and normative ethics, though he also works on the philosophy of normativity, Nietzsche, and the philosophy of risk. He has published extensively in each of these fields, both in journals and edited collections, and is the editor of Spheres of Reason (OUP, 2009).