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ABOUT OUR CONTRIBUTORS Klaus Brinkmann is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Boston University, where he has been teaching since 1990. He was educated at the Universities of Bonn and Tübingen and at Wolfson College, Oxford. He has published on Aristotle, Hegel, Fichte, Schelling, and Jaspers, among others, and is currently finishing a book entitled Idealism Without Limits: Hegel and the Problem of Objectivity. He is the editor of Critical Concepts: German Idealism (to appear with Routledge) and is working on a translation of Hegel’s Encyclopaedia Logic for Cambridge University Press. Eric Brown is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Washington University in St. Louis, where he has taught since 1997, after studying philosophy and classics at the Universities of Cambridge, Pittsburgh, and, principally, Chicago. He has published articles on several different issues and figures in ancient philosophy, and he is the author of Stoic Cosmopolitanism (Cambridge, 2006). Bridget Clarke has been Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Williams College since 2003. She will join the Department of Philosophy at the University of Montana beginning in fall 2006. She was educated at Oxford and the University of Pittsburgh and has articles forthcoming on Descartes’ Meditations and the moral philosophy of Iris Murdoch. John J. Cleary is Professor of Philosophy at Boston College and Associate Professor of Philosophy at NUI Maynooth (Ireland). He received his B.A. and M.A. from University College Dublin, and his Ph.D. from Boston University. He was director of the Boston Area Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy from 1984 to 1988, and is the founding general editor of this series of Proceedings. He has published extensively on ancient philosophy, including a monograph on Aristotle and Mathematics (Leiden, 1995). Currently, he is writing a book on the role of paideia in ancient political thought. 288 ABOUT OUR CONTRIBUTORS Gavin T. Colvert is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Assumption College in Worcester, Massachusetts. He received an M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Toronto, and a B.A. from Santa Clara University. His areas of research include ethics, political philosophy, philosophy of religion and medieval philosophy. He has published essays on the thought of Thomas Aquinas, William Ockham, Jacques Maritain, Hilary Putnam and John Paul II. He is currently working on a study of the concept of practical wisdom in classical and contemporary ethics and political philosophy. Alfredo Ferrarin received his doctorate from the Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa in 1990. He is currently teaching at the University of Pisa. He has published over twenty-five articles on the history of philosophy (esp. Plato, Aristotle, Descartes, Hobbes, Kant, Hegel, Husserl and Heidegger) in Italian, German and American journals and edited volumes. His latest books include Artificio, desiderio, considerazione di sé. Hobbes e i fondamenti antropologici della politica (Pisa, ETS 2001), Hegel and Aristotle (Cambridge and New York, Cambridge University Press 2001), and Saggezza, immaginazione e giudizio pratico. Studio su Aristotele e Kant (Pisa, ETS 2004). He is preparing a book on Kant and imagination in English. Gary M. Gurtler, S.J., is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Boston College. He was educated at St. John Fisher College, at Fordham University, and at the Weston School of Theology. He has published on ancient philosophy, with special attention to Neoplatonism, including a book Plotinus: The Experience of Unity (1988). Most recently, his article “The Activity of Happiness in Aristotle’s Ethics” appeared in The Review of Metaphysics (June, 2003). Currently, his continued research on alienation and otherness in Plotinus is published in two articles, “Plotinus: Matter and Otherness, ‘On Matter’ (II 4[12]), Epoche 9 (2005) 197-214, and “Plotinus: Self and Consciousness,” History of Platonism: Plato Redivivus (New Orleans, University Press of the South, 2005). Thomas K. Johansen is Reader in Philosophy at the University of Edinburgh. He received his BA and Ph.D. from Cambridge. His publications include Aristotle on the Sense-Organs (Cambridge 1998) and Plato’s Natural Philosophy: A Study of the Timaeus-Critias (Cambridge .