Richard Hanley was educated at Sydney University and the University of Maryland, College Park. He is the author of The Metaphysics of Star Trek (reprinted in paperback as Is Data Human?), and is co-editor of the forthcoming Blackwell Guide to the Philosophy of Language. He works on metaphysics, philosophy of language, and ethics, and dabbles in time travel fiction; and is gainfully employed in the Philosophy department at the University of Delaware.