Notes on Contributors

Richard Richards received his Ph.D. in philosophy from The Johns Hopkins University in 1999, where he also received a certificate in a joint program in the History and Philosophy of Science, Medicine and Tech- nology. He is currently teaching at the University of Alabama in the Department of Philosophy and the Blount Undergraduate Initiative—an interdisciplinary program.

Kelly Hamilton is an associate professor at Saint Mary's College, Notre Dame, IN. Her article, "Wittgenstein and the Mind's Eye," recently appeared in Wittgenstein: Biography and Philosophy. She is currently working on a book, Wittgenstein and the Mind's Eye: Visual Thinking and Modeling in the Tracatus Logico-Philosophicus.

Snait Gissis teaches history of the social sciences at the Cohn Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Ideas, Tel Aviv University, Israel. Her present work is on the interactions between social thought and biological thought in the nineteenth century.

Brandon Look is Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Kentucky. He received his Ph.D. in 1997 from the University of Chicago and has published numerous articles on the history of early modern philosophy, as well as a book, Leibniz and the 'Vinculum Substantiale'. He is completing a critical edition and translation of the Leibniz-Des Bosses Correspondence with Donald Rutherford, which will appear as part of the Yale Leibniz Series.