Rob Wilson received his Ph.D. in Philosophy from Cornell University in 1992, and has taught at Queen's University, Canada (1992-1996), and the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (1996-2001), where he was a member of the Cognitive Science Group at the university's Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology. Since July 2000 he has been professor of philosophy at the University of Alberta, in Edmonton, Canada. His areas of professional interest are the philosophy of the mind, the foundations of cognitive science, and the philosophy of biology. He recently edited "Species: New Interdisciplinary Essays" (MIT Press, 1999), and with Frank Keil, is the general editor of "The MIT Press Encyclopedia of the Cognitive Sciences" (MIT Press, 1999). See also his webpage.
