Steven French is Emeritus Professor at the University of Leeds. He has previously taught in Brazil and the USA, and has published over 130 books and papers on a range of topics within the philosophy of science. He served three terms as Co-Editor-in-Chief of The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science and was also Editor-in-Chief of the Palgrave-Macmillan monograph series New Directions in Philosophy of Science. He is a past President of the British Society for the Philosophy of Science and an elected member of both the Academia Europaea and the Académie Internationale de Philosophie des Sciences.