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vii Acknowledgments We would like to express our appreciation for all of the editorial, production , and marketing staff at Northwestern University Press for their professionalism and dedication in the production of this volume. The project editor, Serena Brommel, shepherded the book through its various phases, and it has been my pleasure as the book’s editor to work with her. We also appreciated the careful work of Northwestern’s marketing and sales department in facilitating the marketing questionnaires and other aspects of publicity for the book. Paul Mendelson was meticulous and thorough in copyediting the book, which surely saved us from innumerable errors. We also want to thank Susan Betz, acquisitions editor and editor in chief, for guiding the manuscript through the review process and for placing the book well in Northwestern University Press’s Topics in Historical Philosophy series, and we wish to thank the series editors, David Kolb and John McCumber. All the contributors to this collection and its editor owe a debt of gratitude to Hilde Roos, who was, in effect, the editorial assistant for the book throughout its various stages of production. And finally, we wish to acknowledge Ms. Lisa M. Flaherty, administrative assistant to the philosophy department at Loyola College in Maryland. Her coordination and facilitation in getting the chapters to the contributors and back to the press, on top of her many other duties, were indispensable. ...

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