Notes on Contributors

David M. Adams is Professor of Philosophy at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, and Clinical Ethicist and adjunct member of the Department of Medicine at Pomona Valley Hospital Medical Center. He is a graduate of the University of California, Berkeley, and the University of Washington; he holds a master's degree in law from Stanford Law School. He has published in legal theory, bioethics, and social philosophy. He is the author of Philosophical Problems in the Law (2000). (dmadams@csupomona.edu)

Sigal R. Benporath recently received her Ph.D. in philosophy from Tel-Aviv University, Israel, where she is Assistant Professor at the School of Education. Her interests include philosophy of education, political philosophy, and women studies in the context of social and educational thought. Her class "Feminism and Education" was the first (and is still the only) class on women studies in her department. Her current work focuses on civic education as a way of constructing a just community. (Sebp@internet-zahav.net)

Debra Bergoffen is Professor of Philosophy, Director of the Women's Studies Research and Resource Center and a member of the cultural studies faculty at George Mason University. Her writings focus on epistemological, ethical, political, and feminist issues raised by the work of Nietzsche, Lacan, Irigaray, and Beauvoir. She is the author of the book The Philosophy of Simone de Beauvoir: Gendered Phenomenologies, Erotic Generosities (1997) and the coeditor of Remembrance and Responsibility: Selected Studies in Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy (1997), Vol. 23, published as a supplement to Philosophy Today (1997), Vol. 41; and Continental and Postmodern Perspectives in the Philosophy of Science (1995). Her essays appear in numerous journals and anthologies. (dbergoff@gmu.edu)

Pamela Cushing is completing her Ph.D. in Anthropology and teaching at McMaster University. Her dissertation posits the construction of a local moral world within L'Arche, which facilitates a special caregiver subjectivity that builds from the physics of care towards radical, relational engagement. Previous philosophical publications concern morality in marketing and online. (cushinpj@mcmaster.ca)

Jennifer Eagan is Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Public Administration at California State University, Hayward. She recently completed her dissertation entitled "Justice and Judgment: A Re-reading of Kant's Second and Third Critiques," receiving her doctorate in philosophy from Duquesne University in 1999. Currently, she is doing research in the areas of feminism, postmodernism, and democratic politics. (jeagan@csuhayward.edu)

Maria J. Falco is Professor Emerita, DePauw University, former Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at Loyola University in New Orleans and Academic Vice President at Depauw. She studied Machiavelli and the Anti-Machiavellists on a Fulbright Scholarship at the University of Florence, and received her Ph.D. at Bryn Mawr College in Political Theory and American Government. She was a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at Yale and studied Quantitative Data Analysis at the Survey Research Center at the University of Michigan. She also served as President of the Women's Caucus for Political Science, and was cited as a Mentor of Distinction by that same body. She is the author and editor of five books, most recently of Feminist Interpretations of Mary Wollstonecraft (1996) for Penn State Press, and is currently editing a volume on Machiavelli for the same series. (falco@loyno.edu)

Anita Ghai teaches Psychology at the Jesus and Mary College, University of Delhi. She is orthopedically impaired. Her own existential reality is at the background of her interest in disability activism and research in disability issues. Her publications include a book on the vocational rehabilitation and several book chapters on disability from the developing world perspective. Her forthcoming publications are (Dis)embodied Form with Shakti Books, New Delhi; and Understanding Disability with Sage, New Delhi. She is currently on a sabbatical, researching the issues of gender and disability. She is the overseas editor for Disability and Society. (anitaghai@vsnl.com)

Roger S. Gottlieb is Professor of Philosophy at Worcester Polytechnic Institute. His most recent work includes Joining Hands: Religion and Politics Together for Social Change (2002); A Spirituality of Resistance: Finding a Peaceful Heart and Protecting the Earth (1999...