Amihud Gilead was born in Jerusalem in 1947. He is a Professor Emeritus at the Department of philosophy, the University of Haifa. For many years, his main research was devoted to the study of the history of philosophy, especially of early modern philosophy (Spinoza and Kant). From 1999 till now he introduced and has elaborated on an original modal metaphysics, panenmentalism, which is a special kind of a possibilist realism about individual pure (non-actual) possibilities. Professor Gilead published various books and papers, most of them in English.