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Author Biography

Niall Keane is a Doctoral Researcher at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium. Chris Lawn is a Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Limerick, Ireland. He is the author of The Philosophy of the History of Philosophy (Acumen, 2008).