Mark Siderits is Professor Emeritus in Philosophy at Illinois State University, was also Professor of Philosophy at Seoul National University, and has lectured at Kyoto University. He is the author of numerous books, including The Buddha's Teachings As Philosophy (2022), How Things Are (2021), and, with Shoryu Katsura, Nagarjuna's Middle Way: The Mulamadhyamakakarika(2014). He has made groundbreaking contributions to the study and practice of Buddhism in his extraordinary career, and a collection of his papers on Buddhist philosophy, Studies in Buddhist Philosophy, was published by OUP in 2016.