ABOUT THE AUTHORS

ROBERT WESTBROOK is Joseph F. Cunningham Professor of history at the University of Rochester in Rochester, , where he has taught cultural and intellectual history since 1986. He has also taught at Scripps College and Yale University. His books include John Dewey and American Democracy (1991), Democratic Hope: and the Politics of Truth (2005), and Why We Fought: Forging American Obligations in World War II (2004). Among his many articles, are contributions to The Oxford Handbook of American , The Cambridge Companion to John Dewey and Companion to Pragmatism. His current research focuses on American cultural history during the Great Depression and World War II, and he is completing a book entitled Rethinking the Good War: World War II and the American Moral Imagination.

SANTIAGO REY is Ph.D. student from the New School for Social Research of New York working under the advice of Professor Richard J. Bernstein on issues related to the intersection between pragmatism and philosophical hermeneutics. His main philosophical interests are German idealism, hermeneutics, classical pragmatism, and neopragmatism. He is originally from Bogota, Colombia, and has a Magister in Philosophy from Universidad de los Andes. His master’s thesis on the subject of language in the philosophy of the young Heidegger has recently been published.

CARLOS THIEBAUT is Professor of Philosophy at the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, he has also held positions at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid and the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas. He has been Visiting Professor at Frankfurt University, Northwestern University, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, and Universidad Católica de Lima. He has authored Cabe Aristóteles (1988), Historia del nombrar (1990), Los límites de la comunidad: las críticas comunitaristas y neoaristotélicas al programa moderno (1992), Vindicación del ciudadano (1998), La responsabilidad ante el futuro (y el futuro de las humanidades) (1999), De la tolerancia (1999, translated into Italian), Conceptos fundamentales de filosofía (1998) e Invitación a la filosofía: pensar el mundo, examinar la vida, hacer la ciudad (2008). He has also edited or co-edited: Responsabilidades morales y convicciones políticas (1990, with J. M. González), La herencia ética de la Ilustración (1991), and Montaigne’s Diario del Viaje a Italia (1994, translation, introduction and notes, with J. M. Marinas). 246 CONFINES OF DEMOCRACY

GREGORY FERNANDO PAPPAS is Professor of Philosophy at Texas A&M University. He is the author of numerous articles on the philosophy of William James and John Dewey. His most recent publication is the volume John Dewey's Ethics: Democracy as Experience (2008), the first comprehensive interpretation of Dewey's ethics. His most recent publication is the book with Fordham University Press titled Pragmatism in the Americas, a work on the philosophical connections between American Pragmatism and Latin . He is the editor-in-chief of The Inter-American Philosophical Review, the first online journal devoted to inter-American philosophy with an inter-American editorial board that includes prominent philosophers from “the Americas”. Dr. Pappas has been the recipient of a Ford Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship as well as the William James and the Latin American Thought prizes by the American Philosophical Association. He is also a Fulbright scholar.

JOHN RYDER is Director of International Programs at the SUNY System Administration, and Director of the SUNY's Center on and the . He is the author of Interpreting America: Russian and Soviet Studies in the History of American Thought (1999), the editor of American Philosophic in the Twentieth Century (1994), and a co-editor of The Philosophical Writings of Cadwallader Colden (2002), The Blackwell Guide to American Philosophy (2004, Russian translation published in Moscow in 2008), Pragmatism and Values (2004), Reconstruction and Deconstruction (2004), Education for a Democratic Society (2007), and Self and Society (2009). The latter four books are selected papers of the Central European Pragmatist Forum, of which Dr. Ryder is co-founder and co- director. He is the author of numerous articles that have been published in the U.S. and abroad, and his work has been translated and published in several languages. His current academic work focuses on the application of principles of American philosophic traditions to a range of topics, from an understanding of international relations to and art, and he has recently completed the manuscript of a new book titled The Things in Heaven and Earth. Since 2002 Dr. Ryder has served as President of the Alliance of Universities for Democracy (AUDEM).

ÁNGEL M. FAERNA is Professor of philosophy at the Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha in Toledo, Spain. He received the Ph.D. in philosophy from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid in 1994 with a doctoral thesis on C. I. Lewis’s conceptualistic pragmatism. He has authored Introducción a la teoría pragmatista del conocimiento (1996), and both co-edited and contributed to Identidad, individuo e historia (2003) and Caminos de la hermenéutica (2006). He has edited and translated into Spanish two anthologies of John Dewey’s essays: La miseria de la epistemología: Ensayos