Jason Ānanda Josephson Storm is a leading theorist of metamodernism, a movement that moves beyond postmodern scepticism while retaining its critical insights. From the rubble left by Nietzschian and postmodern critiques of truth and reason, he forges a new path towards a reality that he sees as in constant flux. By challenging some of the foundational categories through which modern societies understand themselves—including religion, science, and art—he constructs a new way of approaching reality. The result is a new picture of knowledge, which incorporates doubt and avoids the essentializing categories of the past. 

Storm’s latest book, Metamodernism: The Future of Theory After Postmodernism, has been hailed by reviewers as “a new way of going beyond modernity,” while his earlier work, The Myth of Disenchantment, challenged the idea that modernity simply replaced magic and religion with rational science, revealing the persistence of enchantment within the modern world. He is Chair of Science & Technology Studies and Professor of Religion at Williams College.

Hilary Lawson is a philosopher, renowned critic of philosophical realism and editorial director of the Institute of Art and Ideas. His main work, Closure: A Story of Everything, has been described as "the first non-realist metaphysics."

Lawson's early work made the case that twentieth-century philosophy was centrally concerned with the paradoxes of self-reference. Closure can be seen as an attempt to resolve these paradoxes and at the same time to provide an account of language that does require reference to an external reality. In doing so it outlines a metaphysics that abandons the traditional relationship between language and the world in favour of a vocabulary of closure and openness. The theory has dramatic consequences for how we understand ourselves and the world, and the role of both science and religion.