William Desmond is professor of philosophy at the Hoger Instituut of the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, a position he has held since 1994. Before this he held several positions in the US. Until 2009 he was President of the American Catholic Philosophical Association, and has formerly served as President of the Hegel Society of America and the Metaphysical Society of America. He was born in Ireland. God and the Between (2008) completes the trilogy on the ‘philosophy of the between’. The first volume was Being and the Between (1995); the second one Ethics and the Between (2001).