How to Think about Terrorism: Reflections on Philosophy, History, and Politics

Quassim Cassam is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Warwick, an Honorary Fellow of Keble College, Oxford, and a Fellow of the British Academy. He was previously Knightbridge Professor of Philosophy at Cambridge, Professor of Philosophy at UCL, and Reader in Philosophy at Oxford University. He has been a Mind Senior Research Fellow, President of the Aristotelian Society, and President of the Mind Association. His books include Extremism: A Philosophical Analysis (Routledge 2021), Vices of the Mind: From the Intellectual to the Political (Oxford 2019), and Conspiracy Theories (Polity 2019).

Richard English is Professor of Politics at Queen's University Belfast. His books include: Armed Struggle: The History of the IRA; Irish Freedom: The History of Nationalism in Ireland; Does Terrorism Work? A History; Does Counter-Terrorism Work? He has been elected to the British Academy, the Royal Irish Academy, the Royal Society of Edinburgh, the Academia Europaea, the Royal Historical Society, and an Honorary Fellowship at Keble College Oxford. In 2018 he was awarded a CBE for services to the understanding of modern-day terrorism and political history. In 2019 he received the Royal Irish Academy's Gold Medal in the Social Sciences.