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Notes on Contributors

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 September 2009

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William Lyons

  • William Lyons is the author of a number of books in philosophical psychology and philosophy of mind, such as Emotion (1980), The Disappearance of Introspection (1986) and Matters of the Mind (2001), as well as of some award-winning philosophical plays.

Mary Kate McGowan, Margaret Hall, Shan Shan Tam

  • Mary Kate McGowan is the Class of 1966 Associate Professor of Philosophy at Wellesley College. In addition to her work in the philosophy of language, she also works in metaphysics, philosophy of law and feminism.

  • Margaret Hall is a B.A. candidate in Philosophy and Mathematics at Wellesley College and a member of the Class of 2011. In addition to philosophy of language, she also has interests in the philosophy of mathematics and logic.

  • Shan Shan Tam is a B.A. candidate in Architecture and Philosophy at Wellesley College and a member of the Class of 2010. The current President of the Philosophy Club, she is interested in the philosophy of language, metaphysics and epistemology.

Vincent Hope

  • Vincent Hope taught the history of Scottish philosophy at the University of Edinburgh where he edited The Philosophers of the Scottish Enlightenment (EUP, 1984) and wrote Virtue by Consensus: the Moral Philosophy of Hutcheson, Hume, and Adam Smith (OUP, 1989). He has contributed articles to Mind, Philosophy and Inquiry and entries to the Oxford Companion of Philosophy (OUP, 1995, 2005).

Mikel Burley

  • Mikel Burley teaches at the University of Leeds, in both the Department of Philosophy and the Department of Theology and Religious Studies. His recent research focuses on attitudes towards death and on conceptions of immortality and eternal life, both secular and religious.

Reshef Agam-Segal

  • Reshef Agam-Segal is an instructor of philosophy at the University of Auburn. He received BA and MA degrees from the Hebrew University and wrote a DPhil thesis at the University of Oxford on the moral philosophy of Cora Diamond. His research focuses on figurative aspects of moral thought and language.

Bob Plant

  • Bob Plant in Lecturer in Philosophy at The University of Aberdeen. He has published on Wittgenstein, Levinas, Derrida, Foucault and Reid.