William Desmond is currently professor of philosophy at Katholieke Universiteit Leuven as well as David Cook Chair in Philosophy at Villanova University, USA. He is the author of trilogy Being and Between (winner of the Prix Cardinal Mercier and the J.N. Findlay Award for best book in metaphysics, 1995-1997), Ethics and the Between (2001), and God and the Between (2008). Other books include Is There a Sabbath for Thought?: Between Religion and Philosophy (2005); as well  Art, Origins, Otherness: Between Art and Philosophy (2003).