Robert J. Howell is Professor and Chair of the Philosophy Department at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas. He has published numerous articles in a wide range of areas including philosophy of mind, metaphysics, epistemology, and ethics. He is the author of Consciousness and the Limits of Objectivity (Oxford University Press, 2013). With Torin Alter he has co-authored A Dialogue on Consciousness (Oxford University Press, 2009) and The God Dialogues (Oxford University Press, 2011). He is a member of SMU's Academy of Distinguished Teachers.