David Carr (Ph.D. Yale, 1966) has taught at Yale, the University of Ottawa (Canada), and, since 1991, at Emory University, where he was department chair and is now Charles Howard Candler Professor. He is the author of Phenomenology and the Problem of History (1974), Time, Narrative and History (1986), Interpreting Husserl (1987), and The Paradox of Subjectivity (1999).
Eva-Maria Engelen is currently working in an interdisciplinary research project on consciousness at the Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften in Berlin and teaching at the University of Konstanz, Germany. She has several publications in the history of philosophy as well as in the philosophy of language, epistemology, and the theory of emotions. Her major publications are Zeit, Zahl und Bild. Studien zur Verbindung von Philosophie und Wissenschaft bei Abbo von Fleury (1993), Das Feststehende bestimmt das Mögliche (1999), Erkenntnis und Liebe (2003), Descartes (2005) and Gefühle (2007).
Dagfinn Føllesdal, C.I. Lewis Professor of Philosophy, Stanford University, studied science and mathematics in Oslo and Göttingen (1950–57), philosophy at Harvard (Ph.D., Harvard, 1961), then taught at Harvard and later at Oslo (1967–99) and Stanford (1966–present). His publications include Husserl und Frege (1958), Referential Opacity and Modal Logic (2004), and other books and articles in philosophy of language, philosophy of science, and on contemporary continental philosophy. He was editor of The Journal of Symbolic Logic from 1970 to 1982.
Michael Friedman is currently Frederick P. Rehmus Family Professor of Humanities at Stanford University. His publications include Foundations of Space-Time Theories: Relativistic Physics and Philosophy of Science (1983), Kant and the Exact Sciences (1992), Reconsidering Logical Positivism (1999), A Parting of the Ways: Carnap, Cassirer, and Heidegger (2000), and Dynamics of Reason (2001).
Rodolphe Gasché is Eugenio Donato Chair of Comparative Literature and SUNY Distinguished Professor at the State University of New York at Buffalo. He studied philosophy and comparative literature in Munich, Berlin, and Paris. He holds an M.A. and Ph.D. in philosophy from the Freie Universität Berlin (Germany). His interests concern nineteenth- and twentieth-century French literature, critical theory, and its relation to continental philosophy since early romanticism. His publications include Die hybride Wissenschaft (1973), The Tain of the Mirror: Derrida and the Philosophy of Reflection (1986), Inventions of Difference: On Jacques Derrida (1994), The Idea of Form: Rethinking Kant’s Aesthetics (2003), and Europe, or The Infinite Task: A Study of a Philosophical Concept (2009).
Ian Hacking is professor emeritus at the Collège de France and University of Toronto. His books include, on probability ideas, The Emergence of Probability (1975) and The Taming of Chance (1990); on mental disorders, Rewriting the Soul (1995) and Mad Travelers (1998); on questions of general interest, Why Does Language Matter to Philosophy? (1975) and The Social Construction of What? (1999); and on experimental science, Representing and Intervening (1983). His collection of papers, Historical Ontology (2002), suggests the types of philosophical topics in which he is interested.
Michael Hampe is professor of philosophy at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich. He works on the history of early modern philosophy (Hobbes, Hume and Spinoza), the history of twentieth-century metaphysics (Whitehead, Dewey, and Sellars) and on problems of the philosophy of biology and psychology. His latest books are Erkenntnis und Praxis. Zur Philosophie des Pragmatismus (2006), and Eine kleine Geschichte des Naturgesetzbegriffs (2007).
David Hyder is associate professor of philosophy at the University of Ottawa. He studied philosophy at Yale, Toronto, and Göttingen, was a postdoctoral researcher at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, and was later assistant professor of philosophy at the University of Konstanz, where he did his habilitation on Kant and Helmholtz. He is the author of The Mechanics of Meaning (2002) and The Determinate World (2009).
Ulrich Majer is professor at the Philosophisches Seminar of the University of Göttingen. He is general editor of David Hilbert’s Lectures on the Foundations of Mathematics and Physics, 1891–1933 of which have appeared David Hilbert’s Lectures on the Foundations of Geometry, 1891–1902 (Springer 2004), and Relativity, Quantum Theory and Epistemology, 1915–1927 (Springer 2009).
Hans-Jörg Rheinberger studied philosophy and biology in Tübingen and Berlin. Since 1997, he has been director at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin. He has published numerous articles on molecular biology and the history of science, in particular the history and epistemology of experimentation. Among his books are Toward a History of Epistemic Things: Synthesizing Proteins in the Test Tube (1997), Iterationen (2005), Epistemologie des Konkreten (2006), and Historische Epistemologie zur Einführung (2007).
David Woodruff Smith is associate professor at the University of California. He specializes in phenomenology and ontology, with an eye to philosophy of mind and language and history of twentieth-century philosophy. His books include Husserl (2007), Mind World (2004), The Circle of Acquaintance (1989), and Husserl and Intentionality (1982, coauthored with Ronald McIntyre). He is the editor of Phenomenology and Philosophy of Mind (2005, coedited with Amie L. Thomasson) and The Cambridge Companion to Husserl (1995, coedited with Barry Smith).
Friedrich Steinle is professor of history of science and technology and director at the Interdisciplinary Center of Science and Technology Studies: Normative and Historical Perspectives at the University of Wuppertal, Germany. His research interests concern the history and philosophy of science, with a special focus on experiment, and case studies of seventeenth- to nineteenth-century physical science. His books include Newtons Manuskript ‘De gravitatione’ (1991) and Explorative Experimente: Ampère, Faraday und die Ursprünge der Elektrodynamik (2005). He is coeditor of Revisiting Discovery and Justification: Historical and Philosophical Perspectives on the Context Distinction (2006, with J. Schickore).