James Dominic Rooney, OP, is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Hong Kong Baptist University. He works primarily in metaphysics, medieval philosophy, philosophy of religion, and Chinese philosophy, with research interests in natural law theory, social ontology, the ethical and political implications of pluralism, and how norms of practical reason affect public reason theories of justification. He has published in Faith and Philosophy, dialectica, American Journal of Jurisprudence, Journal of Church and State, International Philosophical Quarterly, and other venues. His most recent book is Material Objects in Confucian and Aristotelian Metaphysics: The Inevitability of Hylomorphism (2022).

Patrick Zoll, SJ, is Professor of Metaphysics at the Munich School of Philosophy in Germany. He published a monograph on the debate between anti-perfectionist and perfectionist liberals which won the renowned Karl Alber Prize 2016 and was nominated for the Deutscher Studienpreis 2016: Perfektionistischer Liberalismus (2016). His other publications appeared in several journals: Journal of Ethics & Social Philosophy, Heythrop Journal, Faith and Philosophy, and Zeitschrift für Theologie und Philosophie. His most recent book is What It Is to Exist: The Contribution of Thomas Aquinas's View to the Contemporary Debate (2022).