I am a philosopher by training with interests that include philosophy generally and philosophy and pop culture. I have published and taught in these areas and in other areas, too. See my website at robertarp.com. Thanks.

David LaRocca, Ph.D. has served as Visiting Assistant Professor in the Cinema Department at Binghamton University, Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the State University of New York College at Cortland, Visiting Scholar in the Department of English at Cornell University, and Lecturer in Screen Studies in the Department of Cinema, Photography, and Media Arts at the Roy H. Park School of Communications at Ithaca College. He studied philosophy, film, rhetoric, and religion at Buffalo, Berkeley, Vanderbilt, and at Harvard, where he was also Sinclair Kennedy Traveling Fellow in the United Kingdom. Among other books, he is the author of Emerson’s English Traits and the Natural History of Metaphor, and editor of Stanley Cavell’s Emerson’s Transcendental Etudes; The Bloomsbury Anthology of Transcendental Thought; The Philosophy of Charlie Kaufman; The Philosophy of War Films; The Philosophy of Documentary Film: Image, Sound, Fiction, Truth; The Thought of Stanley Cavell and Cinema: Turning Anew to the Ontology of Film a Half-Century after The World Viewed; Inheriting Stanley Cavell: Memories, Dreams, Reflections; and Movies with Stanley Cavell in Mind. More details at www.davidlarocca.org

Michael J. Muniz (Dallas, TX) is an Assistant Headmaster at Founders Classical Academy of Corinth. He is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Leadership at Dallas Baptist University. He has contributed to several volumes in the Pop Culture and Philosophy series from Open Court, Blackwell-Wiley, and Rowman & Littlefield. He is a national speaker at various pop culture conferences around the country, such as Comic-Con, Wonder Con, Myth Con, etc..., where he combines and presents his ideas regarding his passions for philosophy, education, the arts, and religion. When he is not busy writing and researching, he enjoys his time with his wife and two kids.

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Dr. Frank Scalambrino is a 21st-century philosopher from the United State of America. His philosophical writing reflects his concern to search the history of philosophy for puzzles and mysteries that have not been solved. His books, then, may be seen as providing a solution to philosophical puzzles that had not been solved prior to his efforts. He has written ten books, authored over fifty professional peer-reviewed publications, and taught over one hundred university-level courses, including graduate-level courses in both philosophy and psychology.

Before age 27 he founded a Community Mental Health Suicide Prevention Respite Unit and Clinical Intervention Center; he subsequently received awards from multiple mental health agencies across the local, county, and state levels of Ohio, and, in the same year, was inducted into Chi Sigma Iota, the international counseling honor society.

He has worked in various direct service provision and leadership capacities in mental health clinics, psychiatric hospitals, emergency rooms, and trauma centers (including the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center). As an undergraduate, he was the starting quarterback and a captain of the Kenyon College football team.

In determining his projects as an author, he believes:

“Empty is the word of that philosopher by whom no affliction of men is cured. For as there is no benefit in medicine if it does not treat the diseases of the body, so with philosophy, if it does not drive out the affliction of the soul.” ~Epicurus, "Fragment #54."

Heather L. Rivera works in the History and Social Sciences Department at Louisiana State University Shreveport; and is an independent philosophical writer who has interests in metaphysics, the Problem of Evil, and philosophy of mind. She has written numerous philosophy articles, and guest lectured at Suffolk County Community College on such topics as "Cindy Sherman's Film Stills," "Simulacra and Simulation by Jean Baudrillard," and "Inception relating to Rene Descartes's Meditation on First Philosophy." She has given lectures annually on Evil, Pop Culture, and Philosophy at the Long Island Philosophical Society Conferences At Suffolk County Community College, Molloy College, and St. John's University as an invited lecturer.

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