the editor: keith richards
Keith Richards (not aging rock star, but Director of Graduate Studies at the Centre for Applied Linguistics at Warwick University) is editor of the essay collection.
On completing the first stage edit of the initial 50 contributions, he wrote:
"What I'm left with at the end of working closely with these papers is the conviction that your original conception is bang on: exciting things are happening . . . I'll see what ideas I come up with for organising the collection. There are obvious topics (the brain, evolution, etc) but there are also less obvious ones that might be more revealing . . . I think we need to strike a convincing balance between scientific optimism and the sadder tone of quiet doubt in the face of human venality and incompetence. In short, I want to negotiate Pope's "glory, jest and riddle of the world" in terms of what we have here."
note: Geography hasn't shifted . . . the photo of the man (above) was not taken in his office.