Truth: Studies of a Robust Presence

Contributors

357 Contributors Jan A. Aertsen was appointed professor at the Free University of Amsterdam in 1984. He became professor of philosophy and director of the Thomas Institute at the University of Cologne in 1994. Since 2003 he has been professor emeritus. His extensive research and writing in medieval philosophy include his seminal work on the doctrine of the transcendentals , most notably Medieval Philosophy and the Transcendentals: The Case of Thomas Aquinas. Brian H. Bix is Frederick W. Thomas Professor of Law and Philosophy at the University of Minnesota. His research interests focus on legal philosophy , ranging from traditional analytical work to more critical thought based on feminism and economics, and issues of methodology. His writings include A Dictionary of Legal Theory; Jurisprudence: Theory and Context , which is in its fifth edition; and Law, Language, and Legal Determinacy . Daniel O. Dahlstrom is professor of philosophy and chair of the department at Boston University. He previously taught at Santa Clara University and the Catholic University of America. He concentrates in modern and contemporary German philosophy but his work ranges over the history of philosophy with important contributions in medieval thought. Along with more than one hundred articles he has published Das logische Vorurteil: Untersuchungen zur Wahrheitstheorie des frühen Heidegger; Heidegger’s Concept of Truth; and Philosophical Legacies. Daniel Garber was appointed professor of philosophy at Princeton University in 2002 after many years at the University of Chicago. He is currently also chair of the department and an associate member of the Program in the History of Science. His research areas include metaphysics and epistemology in the history of science and philosophy, especially in the seven- 358   Contributors teenth century, and the philosophy of science, with attention to questions regarding rational belief and change in belief. His publications include Descartes ’ Metaphysical Physics and Descartes Embodied. Professor Garber is co-editor of the Cambridge History of Seventeenth-Century Philosophy (1998); and the annual, Oxford Studies in Early Modern Philosophy. Susan Haack is Distinguished Professor in the Humanities, Cooper Senior Scholar in Arts and Sciences, professor of philosophy, and professor of law at the University of Miami. She was previously a fellow of New Hall, Cambridge, and professor of philosophy at the University of Warwick. Her research interests include the philosophy of logic and language, metaphysics and epistemology, philosophy of science, scientific testimony in court, and pragmatism, in law and philosophy. Her extensive publications include Philosophy of Logics; Evidence and Inquiry: Towards Reconstruction in Epistemology; Deviant Logic, Fuzzy Logic: Beyond the Formalism; Manifesto of a Passionate Moderate: Unfashionable Essays; Defending Science— Within Reason: Between Scientism and Cynicism; and Putting Philosophy to Work: Inquiry and Its Place in Culture. Sean Dorrance Kelly was appointed professor of philosophy at Harvard University in 2006 after teaching philosophy and neuroscience at Princeton University since 1999. His work merges philosophical, phenomenological , and cognitive scientific study of the nature of human experience and his interests include twentieth-century French and German philosophy, the philosophy of mind and perception, aesthetics, and the philosophy of literature. Along with a large number of journal articles and book chapters, he has published The Relevance of Phenomenology to the Philosophy of Language and Mind. John Milbank is professor of religion, politics, and ethics at the Department of Theology and Religious Studies at the University of Nottingham. He previously taught at the University of Lancaster, Cambridge University, and the University of Virginia. He is a theologian with strong philosophical interests which show themselves in his work, particularly a reliance on Plato, the Neo-Platonists, and Augustine. His books include Theology and Social Theory; The Word Made Strange; Being Reconciled: Ontology and Pardon; The Suspended Middle: Henri de Lubac and the Debate Concerning the Supernatural; and with Catherine Pickstock, Truth in Aquinas. Contributors   359 Mitchell Miller is professor of philosophy at Vassar College. His work in the history of philosophy, which includes interests in late medieval philosophy, Descartes and Leibniz, and nineteenth- and twentieth-century continental philosophy, concentrates in ancient Greek philosophy, especially the early Greek thinkers and Plato. His extensive publications include two important studies of later Platonic dialogues, Plato’s Parmenides: The Conversion of the Soul; and The Philosopher in Plato’s Statesman. In recent years he has been at work on the related issues of the “longer way” and the so-called “unwritten teachings.” Timothy Noone is ordinary professor in the School of Philosophy of the Catholic University of America. He is...