Bina Gupta is professor of philosophy and director of the South Asia Studies Area and Language Center at the University of Missouri. She is also president of the Society for Asian and Comparative Philosophy. She is the author or editor of ten books, among them Perceiving in Advaita Vedanta: Epistemological Analysis and Interpretation (1991), The Disinterested Witness: A Fragment of Advaita Vedanta Phenomenology (1998), and Cit (Consciousness) (forthcoming). She was the recipient of the Faculty Alumnae Anniversary award, an honor given for her teaching and improving the status of women and minorities at the University of Missouri–Columbia.
J. N. Mohanty is professor of philosophy at Temple University and Woodruff Professor of Philosophy and Asian Studies at Emory University–Atlanta. He is a past president of the Indian Philosophical Congress and a member of the Institut Internationale de Philosophie, the Indian Academy of Philosophy, and the board of directors of the Center for Advanced Research in Phenomenology. He is internationally known for his work in Indian philosophy and Western phenomenology and is the author or editor of eight books, including Transcendental Phenomenology (1989). He has been awarded the Humbolt forschungspries for 1992 and the Sir William Jones Memorial Gold Medal by the Asiatic Society.