Heidi M. Ravven is a professor of religious studies at Hamilton College. A founding member of the Society for Empirical Ethics, she is the author of The Self Beyond Itself: An Alternative History of Ethics, the New Brain Sciences, and the Myth of Free Will (The New Press); has published widely in interdisciplinary journals; and is a co-editor (with Lenn E. Goodman) of Jewish Themes in Spinoza’s Philosophy. Ravven lives in Cazenovia, New York.