Robert C. Scharff is Professor of Philosophy Emeritus at the University of New Hampshire and Executive Director of ITERATA, a non-profit institute for the study of interdisciplinarity in science, industry, and higher education. He is author of Heidegger Becoming Phenomenological: Interpreting Husserl through Dilthey, 1916-1925 (2018); How History Matters to Philosophy: Reconsidering Philosophy’s Past After Positivism (2015); Comte After Positivism (2002); and numerous papers on recent Continental philosophy, philosophy of technology, and 19th and 20th century positivism and postpositivism; co-editor (with Val Dusek) of The Philosophy of Technology (2003, 2014); and former editor of Continental Philosophy Review (1994–2005).