Contributors

Richard J. Bernstein is Vera List professor of philosophy at the New School for Social Research. He is one of Richard Rorty's most insightful commentators. His books include Philosophical Profiles, The New Constellation, and The Pragmatic Turn. He is the coeditor of The Rorty Reader.

William M. Curtis is professor of political science at the University of Portland. His research interests include theories of liberalism, classical liberalism and the free market, religion and politics, politics and literature, US Constitutional law, and American pragmatism. He is the author of Defending Rorty: Pragmatism and Liberal Virtue.

Pascal Engel is professor of contemporary philosophy at the University of Geneva. He is co-author (with Richard Rorty) of What is the Use of Truth? His other books include The Norm of Truth and Truth.

Molly B. Farneth is assistant professor in the Religion Department at Haverford College. She works in the areas of American and European religious and philosophical thought (nineteenth century to the present), with particular attention to religion and politics, ethics, ritual studies, and feminist and gender studies in religion. She is the author of Hegel's Social Ethics: Religion, Conflict, and Rituals of Reconciliation.

Neil Gascoigne is reader in philosophy at Royal Holloway University of London. He is the author of Richard Rorty and Rorty, Liberal Democracy, and Religious Belief.

Serge Grigoriev is associate professor of philosophy at Ithaca College, New York. His recent publications include "A Pragmatist Critique of Dogmatic Philosophy of History" and "Hypotheses, Generalizations, and Convergene: Some Peircean Themes in the Study of History."

Gary Gutting is a former professor of philosophy at the University of Notre Dame and holder of the endowed chair. Gary was the author of numerous books including French Philosophy in the Twentieth Century, What Philosophy Can Do, and Thinking the Impossible.

David L. Hildebrand is associate professor of philosophy at the University of Colorado. His publications include Beyond Realism and Antirealism: John Dewey and the Neopragmatists and Dewey: A Beginner's Guide.

Colin Koopman is associate professor of philosophy at the University of Oregon. He is the author of How We Became Our Data: A Genealogy of the Informational Person, Genealogy as Critique, and Pragmatism as Transition: Historicity and Hope in James, Dewey, and Rorty.

Alexander Krémer is professor of philosophy at the University of Szeged. His field of interest includes hermeneutics, ethics, aesthetics, and pragmatism, especially neopragmatism. He is the author of four books including Why Did Heidegger Become Heidegger? and Philosophy of the Late Richard Rorty. He is the editor in chief of Pragmatism Today.

Steven Levine is associate professor of philosophy at the University of Massachusetts, Boston. He has published articles on classical and contemporary pragmatism as well as more contemporary figures including Sellars, Brandom, McDowell, and Davidson. He is the author of Pragmatism, Objectivity, and Experience.

Tracy Llanera is an assistant research professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Connecticut and a faculty affiliate at the UConn Asian and Asian American Studies Institute. She works in philosophy of religion, social and political philosophy, and American pragmatism, specializing on the topics of nihilism, conversion, and the politics of language. Her writings have been published in a variety of journals, including Philosophy and Social Criticism, Contemporary Pragmatism, Hypatia, Analyse & Kritik, and Pragmatism Today. She is currently working on two books: Outgrowing Modern Nihilism and A Philosophical Defence of Nihilism, coauthored with James Tartaglia.

David Macarthur is an associate professor of philosophy at the University of Sydney. His main interests include skepticism, pragmatism, philosophy of psychology, history of modern philosophy, Wittgenstein, and aesthetics. He coedited Naturalism in Question.

Danielle Macbeth is T. Wistar Brown professor of philosophy at Haverford College in Pennsylvania and the author of Frege's Logic and Realizing Reason: A Narrative of Truth and Knowing. Her work focuses mainly on philosophy of mathematics, metaphysics, language, and logic. She has also published various essays in the history and philosophy of mathematics, philosophy of language, philosophy of mind, and pragmatism, among other topics.

Alan Malachowski is a research fellow in the Centre for Applied Ethics at Stellenbosch University. He is author of Richard Rorty, and The New Pragmatism. His edited works include Reading Rorty and The Cambridge Companion to Pragmatism.

Steven Michels is professor of political science at Sacred Heart University, Fairfield. His scholarship covers work in theory (Nietzsche, Tocqueville, Sinclair Lewis), higher education, and popular culture. His publications include Sinclair Lewis and American Democracy, and "Neitzsche on Truth and The Will."

Marjorie C. Miller is professor emirata of philosophy at Purchase College, State University of New York. She has held Fulbright awards in both China and Korea. Her publications include "Rortian Extremes and the Confucian Zhongyong" and "Feminism and Pragmatism"

Isaac Nevo is associate professor of philosophy at the Ben-Gurion University. His publications include "Richard Rorty's Romantic Pragmatism" and "In Defence of Dogma: Davidson, languages, and conceptual schemes."

Carol Nicholson is professor of philosophy at Rider University. Her publications include "Rorty's Pragmatic Patriotism" and "Education and the Pragmatic Temperament."

Christopher Norris is distinguished research professor in philosophy at Cardiff University. He is author of numerous books including The Contest of Faculties, Derrida, and Truth and Meaning.

Mark Okrent is professor of philosophy at Bates College. He is the author of Heidegger's Pragmatism as well as numerous articles on intentionality, teleology, and Heidegger.

William Ramsey is professor of philosophy at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. He works primarily in the philosophy of mind and cognitive science, and is the author of Representation Reconsidered, "Intuitions as Evidence Facilitators," and "Must Cognition be Representational?" as well as the coeditor (with Keith Frankish) of the Cambridge Handbook of Cognitive Science and the Cambridge Handbook of Artificial Intelligence.

Paul Redding is professor emeritus of philosophy at the University of Sydney. He is a leading authority on Kantian and Hegelian Idealism. He is author of Analytic Philosophy and the Return of Hegelian Thought and Thoughts, Deeds, Words and World: Hegel's Idealist Response to the Linguistic "Metacritical Invasion."

Krzysztof Piotr Skowronski is associate professor of philosophy at Opole University. He is the author of Values, Valuations and Axiological Norms in Richard Rorty's Neopragmatism and Beyond Aesthetic and Politics.

Elizabeth Sperry is professor of philosophy at William Jewell College. Her publications include "Dupes of Patriarchy: Feminist Strong Substantive Autonomy's Epistemological Weaknesses" and "Medina on the Social Construction of Agency."

James Tartaglia is professor of metaphysical philosophy at the University of Keele. He is the author of Rorty and the Mirror of Nature and Philosophy in a Meaningless Life: A System of Nihilism, Consciousness and Reality; editor of Richard Rorty: Critical Assessments of Leading Philosophers; and coeditor (with Stephen Leach) of Mind, Language, and Metaphilosophy: Early Philosophical Papers and Consciousness and the Great Philosophers: What Would They Have Said About Our Mind-Body Problem?

Paul Trembath is associate professor in the Department of English at Colorado State University. He teaches critical studies and its philosophical backgrounds, twentieth-century literatures, and interdisciplinary humanities. He has published widely in critical journals and book editions and is finishing a book that examines the relationship of nonreading to capital process, how ordinary language practices produce unnecessary antagonisms between scientific and discursive materialisms as well as policy-regulated incompatibility of human behavior and eco-sustainability.

Anton A. van Niekerk is distinguished professor of philosophy at the University of Stellenbosch. has published widely in philosophy. He is editor and coauthor of The Status of Prenatal Life and Aids in Context: A South African Perspective. His published articles include "Pragmatism and religion."

Emil Visnovský is professor of philosophy at Comenius University, Bratislava. His publications include "Peirce and Rorty: An Attempt at a Reconciliation of Two Versions of Pragmatism" and...