List of Contributors

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Richard Bourke lectures in the History of Political Th ought at Queen Mary, University of London. He has published on both ancient and enlightenment political thought, and is currently completing a monograph on Edmund Burke for Princeton University Press. With Raymond Geuss he has edited a collection of essays on Political Judgement which will appear from Cambridge University Press in 2009.

Christopher Brooke is now Lecturer in Politics at the University of Cambridge, after three years as the Isaiah Berlin Research Fellow at Oxford, where he was a fellow of Balliol College. He is currently completing his ﬁ rst book, Philosophic Pride: Stoicism and Political Th ought from Lipsius to Rousseau, and his work has appeared in Th e Historical Journal , New Left Review, SVEC , and Grotiana .

Alan Cromartie is Professor of the History of Political Th ought at the University of Reading. He is the editor of A dialogue between a philosopher and a student, of the the common laws of England for the Clarendon Edition of the Works of Th omas Hobbes (Oxford, 2005) and the author of Th e constitution- alist revolution: an essay on the history of England (Cambridge 2006).

Hannah Dawson is Lecturer in the History of Ideas at the University of Edinburgh. She writes on early-modern philosophy and is especially inter- ested in language, natural law, freedom and normativity. She is editing Locke’s Essays on the law of nature for the Clarendon Edition of John Locke.

Michael P. Krom is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at St. Vincent College (Latrobe, PA, USA). He researches on the relationship between politics and religion, focusing speciﬁ cally on Hobbes and the shift from medieval to modern political theory. He has publications in such journals as Hobbes Studies , Journal of Religious Ethics , and Philosophy in the Contemporary World .

Chandran Kukathas is Professor of Political Th eory in the Department of Government at the London School of Economics. He is the author of Hayek and Modern Liberalism (Oxford, 1989) and Th e Liberal Archipelago (Oxford,

2003), and co-author with Philip Pettit of Rawls: A Th eory of Justice and Its Critics (Polity 1990).

Philip Pettit teaches philosophy and political theory in Princeton University, where he is L.S.Rockefeller University Professor of Politics and Human Values. He is co-author, with J.L. Marti, of A Poltical Philosophy in Public Life: Civic Republicanism and Zapatero’s Spain, (Princeton, forthcoming). Among his other books are Th e Common Mind (Oxford,1993), Republicanism (Oxford,1997) and Made with Words: Hobbes on language, mind, and politics (Princeton, 2008), Common Minds: Th emes from the Philosophy of Philip Pettit , e.d. G. Brennan et al, appeared in 2007.

Rosamond Rhodes is Professor of Medical Education and Director of Bioethics Education at Mount Sinai School of Medicine, and Professor of Philosophy at Th e Graduate Center, CUNY. She is co-editor of Th e Blackwell Guide to Medical Ethics (2007), Medicine and Social Justice: Essays on the Distribution of Health Care (Oxford, 2002) and Physician Assisted Suicide: Expanding the Debate (Routledge, 1998). Prof. Rhodes has published numerous papers on Hobbes’s moral and political philosophy, most recently, “Reading Rawls and Hearing Hobbes” (Philosophical Forum, 2002) and “Obligation and Assent in Hobbes’s Moral Philosophy” (Hobbes Studies, 2002).

Ian Shapiro is Sterling Professor of Political Science at Yale University. He has written widely and inﬂ uentially on early modern and contemporary political theory with particular recent attention to the theory and practice of democ- racy. He is editor of a new edition of Leviathan to be published in 2010 in the Yale University Press series on “Rethinking the Tradition,” along with inter- pretive essays by John Dunn, Elisabeth Ellis, David Dyzenhaus, and Bryan Garsten.

Quentin Skinner is Professor of the Humanities at Queen Mary, University of London. His publications include Th e Foundations of Modern Political Th ought (2 vols, 1978); Reason and Rhetoric in the Philosophy of Hobbes (1996); Liberty Before Liberalism (1998); Visions of Politics (3 vols., 2002), and Hobbes and Republican Liberty (2008), all published by Cambridge University Press.

Quentin Taylor is Associate Professor of History and Political Science at Rogers State University in Claremore, OK. He is the author of a number of books and articles on a variety of historical, philosophical, and political sub- jects, including Th e Republic of Genius: A Reconstruction of Nietzsche’s Early Th ought (1998). In 2008-2009 he was a resident scholar at Liberty Fund Inc.