Patrick Grim is Distinguished Teaching Professor of Philosophy Emeritus at Stony Brook University and Philosopher in Residence with the Center for the Study of Complex Systems at the University of Michigan. He earned his BPhil from the University of St. Andrews, Scotland, and his PhD from Boston University. He has published extensively in scholarly journals across a range of disciplines and has received numerous awards for his teaching. His books include The Incomplete Universe, The Philosophical Computer, and Theory of Categories.