Contributors
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Barry Allen is Professor of Philosophy at McMaster University. He is the author of Truth in Philosophy (1993) and Knowledge and Civilization (2004) and an Associate Editor at the interdisciplinary journal Common Knowledge. His present research concerns the relationship between art and technology.
Gregory C. Colomb is Professor of English and Director of Writing Programs at the University of Virginia. He is the author of Designs on Truth: The Poetics of the Augustan Mock-Epic (1992) and co-author of The Craft of Research (2003) and The Craft of Argument (2002). He is a founder of the program of writing instruction known as The Little Red Schoolhouse.
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi is the C.S. and D.J. Davidson Professor of Psychology at the Drucker School of Management of the Claremont Graduate University in California and Professor Emeritus of the University of Chicago. He is the author of Flow (1990), which has been translated into 20 languages, and has written or co-authored 17 other books as well as over 225 scholarly articles. He is the recipient of various honors and is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Academy of Political and Social Sciences, and the American Academy of Education.
Frances Ferguson is Professor of English at the University of Chicago. She is the author of Wordsworth: Language as Counter-Spirit (1977), Solitude and the Sublime: Romanticism and the Aesthetics of Individuation (1992), and Pornography, The Theory: What Utilitarianism Did to Action (2004), as well as articles on eighteenth and nineteenth century literature and on literary theory. She is at work on a study of the relationship between the rise of modern liberal democratic political theory and the development of modern educational systems.
June Anne Griffin is a Franklin Fellow and Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of Georgia. She served as Director of the Writing Center and Director of First Year Writing at the University of Virginia, where she completed her dissertation, “Composition Inverted: Understanding Coherence from the Top Down.”
Susan Haack is Cooper Senior Scholar in Arts and Sciences, Professor of Philosophy, and Professor of Law at the University of Miami. Her books include Philosophy of Logics (1978); Evidence and Inquiry: Towards Reconstruction in Epistemology (1993); Deviant Passionate Moderate: Unfashionable Essays (1998); and Defending Science—Within Reason: Between Scientism and Cynicism (2003). Most [End Page 349] recently, she has published a series of articles on the law of scientific testimony and edited an anthology entitled Pragmatism, Old and New, scheduled to appear in 2005.
Christopher Herbert is the Wender-Lewis Research and Teaching Professor of English at Northwestern University. He is the author of Victorian Relativity: Radical Thought and Scientific Discovery (2001), Culture and Anomie: Ethnographic Imagination in the Nineteenth Century (1991), and Trollope and Comic Pleasure (1987). He is currently at work on a study of the literary aftereffects of the Indian Mutiny of 1857.
Allan Megill is Professor of History at the University of Virginia. He is the author of Prophets of Extremity: Nietzsche, Heidegger, Foucault, Derrida (1985) and of Karl Marx: The Burden of Reason (2002); co-editor with John S. Nelson and Donald N. [Deirdre] McCloskey of The Rhetoric of the Human Sciences (1987); and editor of Rethinking Objectivity (1996). He is currently working on a book on the theory of historical research and writing, tentatively entitled Historical Epistemology.
Horst Ruthrof is Professor of English and Philosophy at Murdoch University, Perth, Western Australia. His works include The Reader’s Construction of Narrative (1981), Pandora and Occam: On the Limits of Language and Literature (1992), Semantics and the Body: Meaning from Frege to the Postmodern (1997), and The Body in Language (2000).
Barbara Maria Stafford is the William B. Ogden Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago where she is a member of the Art History Department. Her most recent books include Visual Analogy: Consciousness and the Art of Connecting (1999) and, with Francis Terpak, Devices of Wonder: From the World in a Box to Images on a Screen (2001). She is at work on a book to be called Neuronal Aesthetics. [End Page 350]
