Roy T Cook is professor in the department of philosophy at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. He is also an associate fellow at the Northern Institute of Philosophy at the University of Aberdeen and a research fellow of the Minnesota Center for Philosophy of Science. He is the author of Key Concepts in Philosophy: Paradox (Polity, 2013) and The Dictionary of Philosophical Logic (Edinburgh University Press, 2009), editor of The Arché Papers on the Mathematics of Abstraction (Springer, 2007), and co-editor of The Art of Comics: A Philosophical Approach (with Aaron Meskin; Wiley-Blackwell, 2012). He has also published numerous articles on the philosophy of logic, the philosophy of mathematics, the history of analytic philosophy, the aesthetics of popular art, and other topics.