Notes on the Contributors

Rahul Kumar is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Pennsylvania. Author of Consensualism in Principle (Routledge, 2001), he focuses current research on questions concerning non-consequentialist moral theory and contractualism.

Niko Kolodny is a graduate student at the University of California, Berkeley. He is working on the normative significance of partiality and its implications for moral and political philosophy. This is his first contribution to Philosophy & Public Affairs.

R. Jay Wallaceis Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of Responsibility and the Moral Sentiments (Harvard, 1994), editor of Reason, Emotion and Will (Ashgate, 1999) and The Practice ofValue (Oxford, 2003), and a new contributor to Philosophy & Public Affairs.

Mary Kate McGowan is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Wellesley College. Her main areas of interest are metaphysics and speech acts. Recent papers include "Gruesome Connections," Philosophical Quarterly (2002), and "Realism, Reference and Grue," American Philosophical Quarterly (2003). This is her first appearance in Philosophy & Public Affairs.

Ronald Dworkin is Frank Summers Professor of Law and Philosophy at New York University and Quain Professor of Jurisprudence at University College, London. The author, most recently, of Sovereign Virtue: The Theory and Practice of Equality (Harvard University Press, 2000), he is also editor of A Badly Flawed Election (The New Press, 2002).

Samuel Scheffler is the Class of 1941 World War II Memorial Professor of Philosophy and Law at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of The Rejection of Consequentialism (1982, rev. ed. 1994), Human Morality (1992), and Boundaries and Allegiances (2001), all from Oxford University Press.