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Acknowledgments Earlier versions of the essays in this volume were presented at the eleventh annual Inland Northwest Philosophy Conference (INPC), held March 15– 17, 2008, in Pullman, Washington and Moscow, Idaho. For their financial and administrative support of the conference, we thank the philosophy departments at Washington State University (David Shier, Chair) and the University of Idaho (Douglas Lind, Chair), the College of Liberal Arts at Washington State University (Erich Lear, Dean), the College of Letters, Arts, & Social Sciences at the University of Idaho (Katherine Aiken, Dean), the research offices at both universities, the Provost’s Office of the University of Idaho, and the administrative managers of both philosophy departments , DeeDee Torgeson and Tamara Johnstone-Yellin. We are also grateful for a grant from the Idaho Humanities Council, a state-based affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities, to help fund the Public Forum. All presenters at INPC 2008 were encouraged to submit their work for publication in this volume and, after a process of peer evaluation, only a few were selected. We regret that we had to turn down numerous quality essays due to space limitations. We are grateful to the following referees for their assistance with the selection process: André Ariew, Mark Bedau, Anjan Chakravartty, Larry Colter, Rachel Cooper, Stephen Downes, John Dupré, Dorit Ganson, Clark Glymour, Matthew Haber, Carl Hoefer, Genoveva Martí, Mohan Matthen, John Perry, Julian Reiss, Harry Silverstein , Matt Stichter, Michael Strevens, Patrick Suppes, and Scott Woodcock. We thank the members of the editorial board of the Topics in Contemporary Philosophy series, and would also like to extend our gratitude to Phil Laughlin and Gita Manaktala at the MIT Press for assistance with this volume and for supporting the series. Finally, special thanks to Delphine Keim Campbell, Laura Lanwermeyer, and Rebecca O’Rourke for their understanding and support. ...

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