Alphonso Lingis is professor emeritus of philosophy at Pennsylvania State University. He is the author of more than a dozen books (including Trust, published by Minnesota) and the translator of several works of French philosophy, including Merleau-Ponty's The Visible and the Invisible and Levinas's Totality and Infinity and Otherwise Than Being.
Tom Sparrow is assistant professor of philosophy at Slippery Rock University. He is the author and editor of several books, and coeditor of Itinerant Philosophy: On Alphonso Lingis.