Contributors

ELISA AALTOLA is a postdoctoral research fellow affiliated with Manchester Metropolitan University, the Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics, and University of Turku (Finland). Her research interests are in animal and environmental philosophy and the concept of “suffering.” She has written numerous papers and two books on animal ethics (Eläinten moraalinen arvo, Vastapaino, 2004; Animal Individuality: Cultural and Moral Categorisations, University of Turku, 2006), and is currently working on a book on the concept of and meditations concerning animal suffering.

ALICE CRARY is associate professor of philosophy at the New School for Social Research in New York. Her main research and teaching interests are moral philosophy, philosophy and literature, and Wittgenstein. She is the author of Beyond Moral Judgment (Harvard, 2007), the editor of Wittgenstein and the Moral Life: Essays in Honor of Cora Diamond (MIT, 2007) and the coeditor of Reading Cavell (Routledge, 2006) and The New Wittgenstein (Routledge, 2000). She is currently working on a book on animals and ethics.

KAREN DAWN is a writer and animal advocate who has hosted talk shows on major radio stations and runs the media watch site DawnWatch.com. She is the author of Thanking the Monkey: Rethinking the Way We Treat Animals, which was chosen by the Washington Post as one of “Best Books of 2008.”

MICHAEL FUNK DECKARD is assistant professor of philosophy at Lenoir-Rhyne University (North Carolina). He is coeditor of two books, Philosophy Begins in Wonder and The Science of Sensibility, as well as the author of articles on early-modern philosophy, aesthetics, and the relationship of religion, philosophy, and literature.

ALENA DVORAKOVA teaches at the School of Philosophy at University College Dublin in Ireland. Her main interests are literature and philosophy, comparative literature and translation, the nineteenth-century novel, and Nietzsche. She is the author of a number of articles on English fiction. Her most recent work is a study of the relationship between prose and poetry in Nietzsche’s writing (forthcoming 2010).

JENNIFER FLYNN is academic fellow at the Joint Centre for Bioethics at the University of Toronto. Her interests are moral philosophy, bioethics, and philosophy and literature.

IDO GEIGER is associate professor of philosophy at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Israel. He works mainly on German idealism, especially on Kant and Hegel, and on the intersection of ethics and literature. He is the author of The Founding Act of Modern Ethical Life: Hegel’s Critique of Kant’s Moral and Political Philosophy (Stanford University Press, 2007).

ANDY LAMEY is a Ph.D. student in philosophy at the University of Western Australia. His essays have appeared in The Journal of Social Philosophy, The New Republic, and The Times Literary Supplement.

JONATHAN LEAR is John U. Nef Distinguished Service Professor, Committee on Social Thought/Department of Philosophy, University of Chicago. His other affiliations include faculty positions at the Chicago Institute of Psychoanalysis and the Western New England Institute for Psychoanalysis. His most recent book is Radical Hope: Ethics in the Face of Cultural Devastation (Harvard, 2006). He was to present the Tanner Lectures on Human Values at Harvard in the fall of 2009 under the title “Irony and Identity.”

ANTON LEIST is professor of philosophy at the Ethics-Center of the University of Zurich. His interests concerning teaching and research include moral philosophy, pragmatism, and applied ethics. His most recent book is Ethics of Social Relationships.

JEFF MC MAHAN is professor of philosophy at Rutgers University. He is the author of The Ethics of Killing: Problems at the Margins of Life (Oxford, 2002) and Killing in War (Oxford, 2009).

RALPH PALM recently defended his dissertation, entitled “Hegel’s Concept of Sublation: A Critical Interpretation” at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Catholic University of Leuven). His main research interests are German idealism, political philosophy, and hermeneutics. He is currently working on an article developing the application of statistical methods to the study of philosophical texts.

ROBERT PIPPIN is the Evelyn Stefansson Nef Distinguished Service Professor in the John U. Nef Committee on Social Thought, the Department of Philosophy, and the College at the University of Chicago. He is the author of several books and articles on German idealism and later German philosophy, as well as a book on literature, Henry James and Modern Moral Life. His book on film, Hollywood Westerns and American Myth: The Importance of Howard Hawks and John Ford for Political Philosophy, will appear in early 2010, as will a new book on Nietzsche, Nietzsche, Psychology, First Philosophy. He was twice an Alexander von Humboldt fellow, is a winner of the Mellon Distinguished Achievement Award in the Humanities, was recently a fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and is a member of the American Philosophical Society.

PETER SINGER is Ira W. DeCamp Professor of Bioethics in the University Center for Human Values at Princeton University and Laureate Professor at the University of Melbourne. His books include Animal Liberation, Practical Ethics, Rethinking Life and Death, One World, and most recently, The Life You Can Save.

ADRIAAN VAN HEERDEN is member of King’s College, Cambridge. Adriaan has previously published articles on Foucault and Kierkegaard in international journals, as well as an article on the science vs. religion debate for Contemporary Review (UK). He is currently working on an article exploring the idea of the “superman” in Nietzsche and Kierkegaard.

PIETER VERMEULEN is a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Leuven, Belgium. He has published on the contemporary Anglophone novel and on critical theory. He is also the coeditor of two volumes on the relation between literature and cultural identity and of an issue of the journal Phrasis on the work of Adorno. His book on the work of Geoffrey Hartman, Romanticism After the Holocaust, is forthcoming in 2010.

SAMANTHA VICE is senior lecturer in the Department of Philosophy at Rhodes University. She is coeditor, with Nafsika Athanassoulis, of The Moral Life: Essays in Honour of John Cottingham (Palgrave, 2008) and, with Ward E. Jones, of Ethics at the Cinema (forthcoming). She has written articles on impartiality and partiality in ethics, on the concept of the Good, on the narrative self, and on the philosophy of Iris Murdoch.

MARTIN WOESSNER is assistant professor of history and society at the City College of New York’s Center for Worker Education. He works primarily in the field of twentieth- century intellectual and cultural history. His reception study, Heidegger in America, is forthcoming.