本-艾米·沙尔夫斯坦（Ben-Ami Scharfstein）特拉维夫大学哲学系的荣休教授。他写过很多书，包括Mystical Experience、A Comparative History of World Philosophy、Ineffability: The Failure of Words in Philosophy and Religion和Of Birds, Beasts, and Other Artists: An Essay on the Universality of Art。