Susan Lynn Hurley (September 16, 1954 – August 16, 2007) was appointed professor in the department of Politics and International Studies at the University of Warwick in 1994, professor of philosophy at Bristol University from 2006 and the first woman fellow of All Souls, Oxford. She wrote on practical philosophy as well as on philosophy of mind, bringing these disciplines closer together. Her work draws on sources from the social sciences as well as the neurosciences, and can be broadly characterised as both naturalistic and interdisciplinary.

Hurley was born in New York City and brought up in Santa Barbara, California. Her mother, a first-generation Armenian immigrant, was a secretary, whereas her father was an aviation industry executive. After a philosophy degree at Princeton University (1976), she studied law at Harvard, resulting in a degree in 1988, and pursued graduate work in philosophy (a BPhil, 1979, and a doctorate, 1983) at Oxford, supervised primarily by John McDowell. She married the British neuroscientist, Professor Nick Rawlins, in 1986.

Warren Cohen is a Canadian composer, conductor and pianist currently resident in Cave Creek, Arizona, USA, where he is the musical director of the Scottsdale-based MusicaNova, a collection of orchestras and ensembles that are identified by a mission statement - Musica Nova means new music - rather than a geographical location. The organisation specialises in works that are newly composed or unjustly neglected.

Cohen, who has so far had a two-decade career as a musical director, and who has significantly developed every organisation with which he has been involved, studied conducting with Gustave Meier and Paul Vermel.

Born in Montreal, Cohen studied piano with father Philip Cohen and composition privately. Cohen performed frequently as a solo pianist in the years from 1980–1990, performing over 200 works including 20 world premiere performances. At this time he was living in Hawaii, holding the position of Music Director of the Kumu Kahua Theatre Group, which specialized in locally themed productions. He composed music for numerous theatre productions, including ones based on the life of Princess Ka'iulani and the Aristophanes farce Ecclesiazusae (translated as either "Women In Parliament" or "The Congresswomen").