Paul M. Rabinow was a professor of anthropology at the University of California (Berkeley), director of the Anthropology of the Contemporary Research Collaboratory (ARC), and former director of human practices for the Synthetic Biology Engineering Research Center (SynBERC). He worked with and wrote extensively about the French philosopher Michel Foucault.
Portrait of Paul M. Rabinow, made in 2002 by Saâd A. Tazi, at École Normale Supérieure, Paris, during his Blaise Pascal professorship.
Hubert Lederer Dreyfus was an American philosopher and professor of philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley. His main interests included phenomenology, existentialism and the philosophy of both psychology and literature, as well as the philosophical implications of artificial intelligence. He was widely known for his exegesis of Martin Heidegger, which critics labeled "Dreydegger".
Dreyfus in 2011
Dreyfus (left) outside his Berkeley home in 1976