Jorge J. E. Gracia is the Samuel P. Capen Chair and SUNY Distinguished Profesor in the Department of Philosophy and Department of Comparative Literature at the State University of New York at Buffalo. He is the author of nineteen books and has edited another two dozen in such fields as metaphysics, interpretation, race, ethnicity, medieval philosophy, Latin American philosophy, and Hispanic/Latino issues.

Iván Jaksic is director of the Santiago Program for the Bing Overseas Studies Program at Stanford University. He is the author of The Hispanic World and American Intellectual Life, 1820-1880, as well as several books and essays on the intellectual history of the Americas. He has held academic appointments at the University of California, Berkeley; the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee; and the University of Notre Dame.