Barbara Gabriella Renzi is completing her PhD on Scientific Methodology and Evolutionary Biology at the Queen's University of Belfast. She studied Philosophy of Science and specialised in Bioethics at 'La Sapienza' in Rome. She published "Natural Selection, Exaptation and the Evolution of Science" in Philosophical Writings and "A false Beginning: a Search for a universal Language. And a different Proposal" in Beginnings: Critical Perspectives, edited by Angela Brüning. She taught courses on Philosophy and Film at Queen's University Belfast and her poems appear in Italian anthologies.Stephen Rainey obtained a first class degree and MA with distinction in philosophy from Queen's University Belfast, where he remains to this day, writing his PhD thesis on a contemporary view of rationality by Kantian means. Barbara Gabriella and Stephen have co-edited a collection of philosophical papers entitled Noesis for the Cambridge Scholars Press