The Philosophy of the Western

CONTRIBUTORS

355 CONTRIBUTORS Shai Biderman is a doctoral candidate in philosophy at Boston University and an instructor in the Bet-Berl College and the College of Management, Israel. His research interests include the philosophy of film and literature, the philosophy of culture, aesthetics, ethics, existentialism, and Nietzsche. His publications include articles on personal identity, language, determinism, and aesthetics. He has also written about the TV shows Seinfeld, South Park, Lost, Family Guy, and Star Trek and the films Minority Report, Kill Bill, Down by Law, Intolerable Cruelty, and Rope. Paul A. Cantor is Clifton Waller Barrett Professor of English at the University of Virginia. He has taught at Harvard in both the English and government departments , and served on the National Council on the Humanities. He has published widely on popular culture, on topics from science fiction to pro wrestling. He has essays in volumes in the University Press of Kentucky’s Philosophy of Popular Culture Series, Blackwell’s Philosophy and Popular Culture Series, and Open Court’s Popular Culture and Philosophy Series. His Gilligan Unbound: Pop Culture in the Age of Globalization was named one of the top nonfiction books of 2001 by the Los Angeles Times. Lindsey Collins is a doctoral candidate in the History of Consciousness program at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Her doctoral dissertation, “Trial by Mountain : The Politics of Suffering and Healing in Difficult Landscapes,” explores how the recent phenomenon of women’s recovery climbs creates cultural landscapes of health, risk, and survivorship. Her research interests include feminist theory, identity theory, and gender theory. She has a special interest in the relationship between identity and spatial place, particularly in how place is experienced differently due to varying gender socialization. B. Steve Csaki holds a doctorate in philosophy from the State University of New York,Buffalo.Hespecializes in comparative philosophy, and is particularlyinterested in exploring the parallels that exist between Zen Buddhism and classical American pragmatism. He has published essays in volumes including The Lord of the Rings and Philosophy and Finding the Ox: Buddhism and American Culture. From 1998 to 2006, he was visiting professor at Centre College in Danville, Kentucky, where he taught courses in philosophy, humanities, and Japanese, and served as the coordina- 356 Contributors tor for the Japanese program. Csaki has now relocated to central Oklahoma, where he is an independent scholar and cattle rancher. He owns and operates Watershed Ranch with Dr. Jennifer L. McMahon. Douglas J. Den Uyl is vice president of educational programs at the Liberty Fund. He holds a master’s degree in political science from the University of Chicago and a PhD in philosophy from Marquette University. Den Uyl has taught at Tulane University and Bellarmine University, where he was chairman of the philosophy department . His research interests include political philosophy and ethics. Most recently, he published God, Man, and Well-Being: Spinoza’s Modern Humanism. William J. Devlin is assistant professor of philosophy at Bridgewater State College. His fields of interest are the philosophy of science, theories of truth, Nietzsche, and existentialism. His publications include articles on Nietzsche, ethics, and aesthetics, and on films including Twelve Monkeys and The Terminator. Daw-Nay Evans teaches philosophy at both DePaul University and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He is the inaugural recipient of DePaul University’s Michael Mezey Excellence in Graduate Teaching Award. His interests include moral and political philosophy, moral psychology, ancient Greek philosophy, modern German philosophy, African American philosophy, the philosophy of film, the philosophy of religion, and Nietzsche. Evans is the author of review essays in the Journal of the History of Philosophy, Journal of Nietzsche Studies, Classical Review, and Philosophers’ Magazine. He is also a member of the review board for Philosopher’s Digest. Currently, Evans is finishing his dissertation, “Nietzsche and Classical Greek Philosophy: Essays on Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle,” at DePaul University. Richard Gaughran is assistant professor at James Madison University, where he teaches American and world literature in the English department. He is a former Fulbright Scholar for American Studies in Skopje, Macedonia, and has worked on literary translations from Macedonian to English. Recent scholarly articles include one on Larry Brown’s Rabbit Factory (in Larry Brown and the Blue-Collar South) and a contribution to The Philosophy of the Coen Brothers as part of the University Press of Kentucky’s Philosophy of Popular Culture Series. Richard Gilmore is associate professor of philosophy at Concordia College. He received his master’s and doctoral degrees from the University...