The Philosophy of David Cronenberg

Contributors

217 Contributors Keith Allen is lecturer in philosophy at the University of York. He was a research fellow at the Institute of Philosophy, London, and studied philosophy at University College London and the University of Cambridge. His research interests include the philosophy of perception, the philosophy of color, and the history of philosophy. Cynthia Freeland is professor and chair of the philosophy department at the University of Houston. She is author of The Naked and the Undead: Evil and the Appeal of Horror (Westview, 1999) and coeditor (with Thomas Wartenberg)ofPhilosophyandFilm(Routledge,1991).Herarticles“Feminist Frameworks for Horror Films” and “Realist Horror” have been anthologized several times. Other film articles include “Horror and Art-Dread,” in The Horror Film (Rutgers, 2004), and “The Sublime in Cinema,” in Passionate Views (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999). Freeland has also authored books on topics in ancient philosophy, feminism, and art theory. Jones Irwin is lecturer in philosophy at St. Patrick’s College, Dublin City University. His main areas of research are aesthetics, postmodernism, and philosophy of education. He is the author of Derrida and the Writing of the Body (Ashgate, Surrey, 2010), and his next monograph, Paulo Freire’s Philosophy of Education: Origins, Developments, Impacts, and Legacies, is forthcoming in late 2012 from Continuum. Peter Ludlow is John Evans Professor of Moral and Intellectual Philosophy at Northwestern University. He has done much interdisciplinary work on the interface of linguistics and philosophy and has also established a research program on conceptual issues in cyberspace, particularly questions 218 Contributors about cyber-rights and the emergence of laws and governance structures in and for virtual communities. He has also written on topics in aesthetics that intersect with popular culture, including fan fiction and the ontology of virtual worlds. Colin McGinn is professor of philosophy at the University of Miami. He has made contributions to various areas of philosophy, most notably in the philosophy of mind. He is the author of The Character of Mind (Oxford University Press, 1982), Knowledge and Reality (Oxford University Press, 1998), The Making of a Philosopher (HarperCollins, 2002), and The Power of Movies (Pantheon, 2005). Daniel Moseley received a PhD in philosophy from the University of Virginia in 2010. He is currently visiting assistant professor in the Department of Philosophy, as well as a clinical assistant professor of psychiatry, at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is faculty fellow of the Parr Center for Ethics at UNC, and he serves as a core faculty member in the UNC/Duke University Philosophy, Politics, and Economics program. Moseley’s current research focuses on topics at the intersection of moral and political philosophy and the philosophy of mental disorder, including action theory, rationality, and irrationality. R. Barton Palmer is Calhoun Lemon Professor of Literature at Clemson University, where he also serves as director of the film studies program. Palmer is author, editor, or general editor of more than forty books on various literary and cinematic subjects, including most recently (with Robert Bray) Hollywood’s Tennessee: The Williams Films and Postwar America, To Kill a Mockingbird: The Relationship between the Text and the Film, (with David Boyd) After Hitchcock: Imitation, Influence, and Intertextuality, and Joel and Ethan Coen. He has contributed essays to many of the volumes in the Philosophy of Popular Culture series and is coeditor, with Steven Sanders , of The Philosophy of Steven Soderbergh. Brook W. R. Pearson received his PhD in 2000 from the University of Surrey, in philosophy, classics, and religious studies (his dissertation was published by Brill in 2001 as Corresponding Sense). Formerly senior lecturer in philosophy at Roehampton University, London, he is now teaching in the Department of Humanities at Simon Fraser University in Canada. He is currently editing the unpublished works of the analytic philosopher John Contributors 219 Wisdom at the Wren Library of Trinity College Cambridge, and is very interested in the relations between philosophy, film, and psychoanalysis. DuncanPritchard holds the chair in epistemology at the University of Edinburgh .Previously,hewasprofessorofphilosophyattheUniversityofStirling. His main research area is epistemology, and he has published widely in this area, including Epistemic Luck (Oxford University Press, 2005), What Is This Thing Called Knowledge? (Routledge, 2006), and The Nature and Value of Knowledge (with A. Haddock and A. Millar; Oxford University Press, 2010). Simon Riches is a researcher at the Institute of Psychiatry, King’s College London. He previously taught philosophy at University College London and Heythrop College, University...