Michael Beaney is Professor of History of Analytic Philosophy at the Humboldt University in Berlin, Regius Chair of Logic at the University of Aberdeen in Scotland, and Visiting He Lin Chair Professor of Philosophy at Tsinghua University in Beijing. Educated at Oxford, he taught at various universities in London and Yorkshire before taking up his current posts. He is the editor of The Oxford Handbook of the History of Analytic Philosophy (OUP, 2013), and is the author of Analytic Philosophy: A Very Short Introduction (OUP, 2017). As well as the history of analytic philosophy, his research interests include Chinese philosophy, creativity, historiography, and philosophical methodology.