Eric Schwitzgebel is a professor of philosophy at University of California, Riverside, and cooperating member of UCR’s program in Speculative Fiction and Cultures of Science. Among his academic research interests are animal cognition, group consciousness, and artificial intelligence. In 2021, he co-edited Philosophy Through Science Fiction Stories (Bloomsbury Press). Among his non-fiction books are A Theory of Jerks and Other Philosophical Misadventures (MIT Press) and The Weirdness of the World (forthcoming from Princeton University Press).