Claudia Bianchi is Professor of Philosophy of Language at the Vita Salute University San Raffaele in Milan. Her interests range from theoretical issues in the fields of analytic philosophy of language to pragmatics, and the philosophy of feminist language. She is president of the board that oversees the course of study in Philosophy at the University San Raffaele of Milan and is part of the steering committee of the Gender Centre (Interfaculty Centre for Gender Studies) and of SWIP Italia (Society for Women in Philosophy). Laterza published her Pragmatica del linguaggioin 2003 and Pragmatica cognitive: I meccanismi della comunicazione in 2009.

Nicla Vassallo is professor of the Philosophy of Knowledge at the University of Genoa and the University Vita-Salute San Raffaele in Milan. Author of books and essays in both Italian and English, she recently edited Philosophies of Science (Turin 2003).