NOTES ON THE SCRIPT WRITERS, AKA THE CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS VOLUME
Who Are These People?
DANIEL BARWICK is Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Honors Program Co-ordinator at the State University of New York College of Technology at Alfred. His publications include works in the philosophy of mind, metaphysics, and bioethics. Dan supplements his income by renting his villa in Tuscany.
ERIC BRONSON is Adjunct Professor of Philosophy at Berkeley College of New York, and has produced a feature-length documentary film entitled My Lazy White Friends. Eric is fond of boasting, “I practice what I preach and do Nothing.”
MARK T. CONARD is a fiction writer, philosopher, and Steppenwolf dwelling in Philadelphia. His publications on Kant and Nietzsche have appeared in Philosophy Today and the Southern Journal of Philosophy. His article “Symbolism, Meaning, and Nihilism in Quentin Tarantino’s Pulp Fiction” was published in Philosophy Now. Unfortunately, nothing personal can be said about Mark. It seems he sold his biography to J. Peterman, who would not grant permission to reprint any part of it.
ROBERT A. EPPERSON teaches Philosophy at Auburn University. He works primarily in ethics, epistemology, and logic, but when asked what he does often responds, “I’m an architect.”
JORGE J.E. GRACIA is Samuel P. Capen Chair and SUNY Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the State University of New York at Buffalo. His publications include Philosophy and Its History (1992), A Theory of Textuality (1995), and Texts (1996), among many others. His book Hispanic/Latino Identity is in press, and he is currently writing a book on the interpretation of divinely revealed texts. Jorge is Kramer’s favorite contributor to this volume because he is the genuine article, a real Cuban!
JASON HOLT is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Manitoba. His publications include “A Comprehensivist Theory of Art” in the British Journal of Aesthetics, “Superassertibility and Asymptotic Truth” in Dialogue, and a book of poetry entitled Feeling Fine in Kafka’s Burrow (AB Collector, 1994). He has never been in a Woody Allen movie.
WILLIAM IRWIN is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at King’s College. He is the author of Intentionalist Interpretation: A Philosophical Explanation and Defense. He has also published articles and reviews on hermeneutics, Sartre, Plato, philosophy of law, and philosophical pedagogy. He enjoys spending time with cousin Jeffrey, eating chocolate bobka, smoking Cuban cigars, cherishing the cabin, and mixing metaphors.
KELLY DEAN JOLLEY is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Auburn University. He has published articles in Philosophical Quarterly, Philosophical Investigations, and James Joyce Quarterly. Warning: Kelly’s articles seem better or worse depending on the lighting.
NORAH MARTIN is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Portland. She has recently co-edited (with Peter Ludlow) a collection of essays on externalism and self-knowledge, and has published in the Journal of Medicine and Philosophy. Norah’s current research focuses on the existence of a mutant race of pig men and the ethics of eating Junior Mints in the operating room.
JENNIFER McMAHON is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Centre College. She has published on Sartre and aesthetics. Both existentialist and equestrian, Jennifer spends most of her time thinking about “nothing,” and experiencing the nausea that results from feeding her horses a steady diet of Beefarino.
THEODORE SCHICK, JR. is Professor of Philosophy at Muhlenberg College. He is co-author (with Lewis Vaughn) of How to Think about Weird Things: Critical Thinking for a New Age and Doing Philosophy: An Introduction through Thought Experiments. Ted insists on eating his M&M’s with a spoon.
AEON J. SKOBLE is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at West Point. He has published articles on political philosophy, moral philosophy, and the subversive influence of Forrest Gump. Aeon enjoys reading Glamour magazine.
SARAH E. WORTH is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Furman University. She specializes in ancient philosophy and aesthetics, and has published in the British Journal of Aesthetics. Sarah would like to echo Elaine in saying, “I’m not a lesbian. I hate men, but I’m not a lesbian . . . Not that there’s anything wrong with that.”