Scott Aikin is associate professor of philosophy at Vanderbilt University in Tennessee. He specialises in theory of knowledge, informal logic, and ancient philosophy. His books include Pragmatism, Pluralism, and the Nature of Philosophy (Routledge, 2017) and Political Argument in a Polarized Age (Polity, 2020), both co-authored with Robert B Talisse, and Straw Man Arguments (Bloomsbury, 2022), co-authored with John Casey.