Donovan Wishon is an associate professor of philosophy at the University of Mississippi. He completed his doctoral thesis on "Russellian Acquaintance and Phenomenal Concepts" at Stanford University under the direction of John Perry and Krista Lawlor. His central research projects include Bertrand Russell's work in epistemology, philosophy of mind, and philosophy of language, as well as the epistemology and metaphysics of consciousness and the self.