Amihud Gilead was born in Jerusalem in 1947. He is married to Ruth and the father of Amir and Inbal. From 1989 till 1993, he was the chairperson of the Department of Philosophy at the University of Haifa, Israel. He has published three books and numerous papers on Spinoza, Kant, and Plato in English and Hebrew. His previous book, The Platonic Odyssey: A Philosophical-Literary Inquiry into the Phaedo, appeared in 1994 in this Series (Volume 17).