Animal Pragmatism: Rethinking Human-Nonhuman Relationships

Acknowledgments

Acknowledgments We would like to thank each of our authors for their contributions to this volume . We would also like to thank those whose work was initially to be part of this volume. Because of limitations of space, we were unable to use several very interesting pieces. We would also like to express our appreciation to the Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy and to the Summer Institute in American Philosophy for providing venues where we could begin to discuss this work and generate ideas. For speci¤c help with computer issues (and for their patience), we would like to thank Tracy Williamson, senior administrative assistant for the Division of Humanities at Paci¤c Lutheran University, and Margaret Crayton, director of Academic User Support at Paci¤c Lutheran University. We would also like to thank Dee Mortensen, our sponsoring editor at Indiana University Press, for her unwavering support of this project, Alice Falk, our copyeditor, for many suggestions that greatly improved the text,and Chris Schlottmann at NYU for offering many valuable changes to the ¤nal manuscript. Erin would also like to thank her canine companions, Pandora and Nemesis, for putting up with some very long hours in the of¤ce. Animal Pragmatism ...