Emil Angehrn, born in 1946, studied philosophy, sociology, and economics in Leuven and Heidelberg. He earned his doctorate in 1976 in Heidelberg and completed his habilitation in 1983 at the Free University of Berlin. From 1989 to 2013, he was a professor of philosophy at Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Frankfurt am Main and has been a professor of philosophy at the University of Basel since 1991. From 2000 to 2004, he was a member of the Research Council of the Swiss National Science Foundation and from 2004 to 2007, he served as Dean/Deputy Dean of the Faculty of Philosophy and History. His research focuses are historically: ancient philosophy, 19th and 20th centuries; systematically: metaphysics, philosophy of history, hermeneutics, and politics.

Christian Iber teaches as a private lecturer at the Institute of Philosophy at FU Berlin and has held visiting professorships in Prague, Jena, and Berlin.

Georg Lohmann is a professor of practical philosophy at Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg. His research focuses on moral philosophy and applied ethics, political philosophy and legal theory, social philosophy and sociological theory formation, as well as cultural philosophy and contemporary diagnoses.

Romano Pocai studied philosophy, German studies, and Italian studies in Heidelberg and Berlin and earned his doctorate in 1994. From 1994 to 2000, he was a research assistant at the Institute of Philosophy at FU Berlin and has been a research associate in the DFG project "On the Relationship between Philosophy and Art Based on the Concept and Practice of Art Criticism" since 2001. His areas of focus include philosophical aesthetics, the relationship between philosophy and art, metaphysics and ontology in the 19th and 20th centuries, as well as philosophical anthropology.