About the Contributors

ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS TIMO AIRAKSINEN is Professor of Moral Philosophy at the Dicipline of Social and Moral Philosophy at University of Helsinki. He specializes in ethics and social philosophy, ethics of technology, the history of philosophy, and education. He has written on a wide range of topics dealing with these issues, from the thinking of Hobbes to Marquis de Sade. Airaksinen is a member of the editorial boards of the leading Finnish philosophical journal Acta Philosophica Fennica and of the yearbook Berkeley Studies. He is also the vice-president of the International Berkeley Society. PER ARIANSEN is a Senior Lecturer at the Philosophy section of the IFIKK Department at the University of Oslo. Since 1990 Ariansen has published and lectured on topics of environmental philosophy. He has also worked on topics of philosophy of science, responsibility, trust, spirituality, justice, and future generations. He has for periods been a visiting scholar at SUM, the Centre for Environment and Development in Oslo. His publications include Vitenskapsfilosofi: En Innføring (with Arne Næss, 1980), Miljøfilosofi: En Innføring (1992), “Sustainability, Morality and Future Generations” (1995) in Future Generations Journal, “The Non-Utility Value of Nature: A Contribution to Understanding the Value of Biological Diversity” (1997) in Meddelelser fra Skogforsk, “Bioprospecting: A Hybrid of Commerce, Politics and Science” (2000) in Responding to Bioprospecting: From Biodiversity in the South to Medicines in the North, and “On Being Moved: Spirituality in a Secular World” (2005) in Sacrum in Cultural Space. SIMON CLARKE is a senior lecturer at the School of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Canterbury. He received his D. Phil. from the University of Oxford in 2001 and before that did his BA and MA at the University of Auckland. He also spent one semester at Columbia University in New York City as a visiting scholar. His areas of interest are political philosophy, the history of political thought, ethics, and legal philosophy. As well as tutoring at Oxford and Auckland universities, he lectured in the Political Science Program at Canterbury before joining the Philosophy Program. Simon's research interests are in political philosophy, the history of political thought, bioethics, and moral philosophy. He is working on a book that examines welfare-based arguments for freedom. His publications include “The Self-Development Argument for Individual Freedom” (2006) in Minerva, “Debate: State Paternalism, Neutrality and Perfectionism” (2006) in Journal of Political Philosophy, “Two Models of Ethics Committee” (2005) in Journal of Bioethical Inquiry, “Paternalism and the Right of Access to Medical Records” in Journal of Information Ethics, “A Definition of 144 Paternalism” in Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy, and “Contractarianism, Liberal Neutrality, and Epistemology” in Political Studies. JAY L. GARFIELD is Doris Silbert Professor in the Humanities, Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Logic Program and of the Five College Tibetan Studies in India Program at Smith College, Professor in the graduate faculty of Philosophy at the University of Massachusetts, Professor of Philosophy at Melbourne University and Adjunct Professor of Philosophy at the Central University of Tibetan Studies. He teaches and pursues research in the philosophy of mind, foundations of cognitive science, logic, philosophy of language, Buddhist philosophy, cross-cultural hermeneutics, theoretical and applied ethics and epistemology. Garfield’s most recent books are Empty Words: Buddhist Philosophy and Cross-Cultural Interpretation (2006), The Oxford Handbook of World Philosophy (edited with William Edelglass, 2010), Sweet Reason: A Field Guide to Modern Logic (with Jim Henle and Tom Tymoczko, 2011) and Contrary Thinking: Selected Papers of Daya Krishna (edited with Nalini Bhushan and Daniel Raveh, 2011). Garfield is also working on a project on the the acquisition of evidentials and its relation to other cognitive and linguistic development, with Jill deVilliers and others as well as a project on the history of 20th Century Indian philosophy (with Nalini Bhushan). LARS HERTZBERG is Professor emeritus in philosophy at Åbo Akademi University, in Åbo/Turku, Finland. Hertzberg has taught at the University of Helsinki and the University of Arizona. He has been a research visitor at the University of Wales, Lampeter, and the University of Oregon. He has published a number of journal articles in English, Swedish and Finnish dealing with issues in the philosophy of language, epistemology, ethics, philosophy of the humanities and the thought of Wittgenstein. Some of Hertzberg's articles were published in a collection with the title The Limits of Experience (1994). He has translated some of Wittgenstein's work into Swedish (Über Gewisshet, Vermischte Bemerkungen, co-translator of The Blue and Brown Books). He has edited the collection Essäer om Wittgenstein (in Swedish), and with Martin Gustafsson, The Practice of Language (2002). KAREN JONES is doctor of philosophy and she is an academic at the Historical and Philosophical Studies at the University of Melbourne. Her areas of special interest in philosophy are moral philosophy ethics, and feminism. Her publications include “Counting on One Another” (2010) in Trust, Sociality, Selfhood, “Framing Marginalised Art” (2010) in Framing Marginalised Art, “How to change the past” (2008) in Practical Identity and Narrative Agency, “Quick and Smart” (2007) in Canadian Journal of Philosophy, “Metaethics and emotions research: a response to Prinz” (2006) .

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