Douglas Cairns is Professor of Classics at the University of Edinburgh. His many previous publications include Aidos: The Psychology and Ethics of Honour and Shame in Ancient Greek Literature and, as editor, A Cultural History of the Emotions in Antiquity and Emotions though Time, from Antiquity to Byzantium.
Curie Virág is Associate Professor in World Philosophy at the University of Warwick and a specialist in the philosophy and intellectual history of early and middle period China. Her research focuses on ethics, epistemology, and moral psychology, especially in relation to the emotions. She is the author ofÂThe Emotions in Early Chinese PhilosophyÂ(Oxford 2017) and has published on such topics as pleasure, contempt, moral agency, practical wisdom, learning and self-cultivation, and cross-cultural philosophical method.