Dr Michael Lacewing

He is Senior Lecturer in philosophy and Director of Research at Heythrop College, University of London, where he teaches Ethics, Philosophy of Mind, and Philosophy of Psychology. He is also a consultant on A level philosophy to the British Philosophical Association, the association for philosophy in British higher education, and has been a consultant to the Philosophy and Religious Studies Subject Centre of the Learning and Teaching Support Network.

Michael has published several textbooks for A level philosophy, all published by Routledge, most recently Philosophy for AS, covering the new AQA AS Philosophy syllabus. Two textbooks covering the new A2 syllabus will be published in summer 2009. He also wrote Revise Philosophy for AS, published in August 2006, and is a co-author, with other members of the Heythrop philosophy department, of the Routledge textbook Philosophy for AS and A2 (June 2004), for which he wrote the introduction and the chapters on ethics and on exam revision and technique.

Michael's interests lie in the overlap between ethics and mind, in particular, psychoanalysis. His current research is on the relationship between how we feel and what we think and on psychoanalytic accounts of the origins of our minds and our values.

Dr Stephen Law

Stephen Law is lecturer in philosophy at Heythrop College, University of London. He is also the editor of Think, the Royal Institute of Philosophy's new popular journal aimed at the general public. He is the author of The Philosophy Files, an illustrated children's/adult introduction to philosophy, and The Philosophy Gym, an adult introduction to philosophical thinking that tackles twenty-five key questions. The Philosophy Files was The Guardian's number two best-selling book for the year 2000. It has now been translated into nine languages. The sequel, The Outer Limits, was published in July 2003.

Stephen has varied research interests. He has recent papers on dualism and on Wittgenstein and Kripke in the journal Ratio, and is writing further articles on Wittgenstein and on animal rights. He is also co-editor of the Routledge textbook Philosophy for AS and A2 (June 2004).

Stephen studied at City University, London, and Trinity College, Oxford, and was a Junior Research Fellow at The Queen's Colege, Oxford. He lives in Oxford with his wife and daughter.

Dr Jean-Marc Pascal

Dr Jean-Marc Pascal is Master of Philosophy at Sherborne School where he has been teaching the subject for over 20 years. He has been associated with A level Philosophy from its very inception and has worked for various examining boards, as an Assistant Examiner and Senior Examiner.

Jean-Marc studied at the Sorbonne, the State University of New York, and University College London. His main area of research is the history of continental philosophy, with a particular interest in the ethical and political theories of Nietzsche and Sartre.

Geoff Willis

Geoff Willis has degrees in Philosophy and Theology from Oxford University. After winning the Henry Wilde Prize in Philosophy, he was elected to a Fellowship at Pembroke College, Oxford where he taught Philosophy for several years. He has considerable experience of teaching both at university and at secondary level. He has given INSETs both nationally and locally on a range of topics including embedding thinking skills within the secondary curriculum, teaching Philosophy to secondary pupils and meeting the needs of Gifted and Talented pupils.

He is currently Head of Department in a large Midlands Sixth Form College with responsibilities for Critical Thinking, Philosophy and Religious Studies. He also oversees the programme for Gifted and Talented students within the college.