NOTES ON THE AUTHORS PAUL BERNIER, born in Quebec City, holds a B.A. (1986) and a M.A. (1988) in Philosophy from the Universite Laval, and a Ph.D. in Philosophy (1993) from the Universite de Montreal. He is currently working as Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. His main interests are in Philosophy of Mind, Cognitive Science and Philosophy of Language. He has recently published 'Narrow Content, Context of Thought and Asymmetric Dependency'. MURRAY CLARKE, born in Winnipeg (1956), received his M.A. from Dalhousie University and his Ph.D. from the University of Western Ontario. He is Associate Professor of Philosophy and Graduate Program Director at Concordia University. His primary interests are in Contemporary Epistemology and the History and Philosophy of Science. He has recently published in Philosophical Studies, Synthese, Philosophy of Science, and his work has been anthologized. JOCELYNE COUTURE is Docteur en Philo sophie (Logic and Philosophy of Science) from the University of Aix-Marseille I (1982). She is Professor of Philosophy (Ethics and Political Philosophy) in the Department of Philosophy at the Universite du Quebec a Montreal. Her fields of interest are Methodology, Decision Theory and Contemporary Contractarian Ethics. She is editor of Ethique et rationalite, co-editor of Ethique sociale et justice distributive and MeraphilosophielReconstructing Philosophy? She has pub­ lished papers in Ethics, Logic and Philosophy of Mathematics. FRAN<;OIS DUCHESNEAU, born in Montreal (1943), holds an Agregation de Philosophie (France) and a Doctorat-es-Lettres in Philosophy from the Universite de Paris I. He started his teaching career at the University of Ottawa. A former editor of Dialogue, he is Professor of Philosophy and Associate Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at the Universite de Montreal. His primary interests rest with History of Science and Methodology from 17th to 19th Century, and with Philosophy of Biology. He authored five books: L' empirisme de Locke, La physioLogie des Lumieres: empirisme, modeLes et theories, Genese de La theorie cellula ire, Leibniz et la methode de La science, La dynamique de Leibniz. PAUL DUMOUCHEL is professor in the Department of Philosophy at the Universite du Quebec a Montreal. He is the author of numerous articles in 295 M. Marion and R. S. Cohen (eds.), Quebec Studies in the Philosophy of Science 11, 295-298. © 1996 Kluwer Academic Publishers. 296 NOTES ON THE AUTHORS Philosophy of Science and Philosophy of Mind. His book, Le corps social: essai sur les emotions is due off the press in 1994. SUSAN DWYER was born in Kuala Lumpur (1958), holds a B.A. (Hons) from the University of Adelaide (1986), and a Ph.D. in Philosophy from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1991). She is an Assistant Professor in Philosophy at McGill University. Her primary interests are in the Philosophy of Language and Moral Epistemology. She is also the editor of The Problem of Pornography (1994). DENIS FISETTE, born in Sherbrooke, Quebec (1954), was educated in Germany (Berlin) and Canada (Ph.D. Universite de Montreal, 1986) and worked as a Post-Doctoral Fellow at Stanford University (1987-1989). He is Professor of Philosophy at the Universite du Quebec a Montreal. His primary interests are Phenomenology, Philosophy of Mind, Psychology and Action Theory. He has published several papers on these topics and has been guest editor of a special issue of Lekton, of which he is the current editor, on Daniel Dennett and of Philosophiques on phenomenology and intentionality. He is the author of Husserl et Frege (1994) and is writing a book on phenomenology and psychology. J. NICOLAS KAUFMANN, born in Switzerland, studied Psychology and Philosophy in Belgium. He holds a Ph.D. in Philosophy, specializing in Philosophy of Science, from the University of Louvain (1978), He is Professor of Philosophy and Graduate Program Director at the Universite du Quebec­ a-Trois-Rivieres, and past President of the Canadian Philosophical Association. He published a number of articles in his fields of interest: Philosophy of Social Sciences, Philosophy of Mind and Action, Phenomenology. MAURICE LAGUEUX, born in Montreal (1940), holds a Ph.D. (3e cycle) in philosophy from the Universite de Paris-Nanterre (1965) and a M.A. in eco­ nomics from McGill University (1970). He is a Professor of Philosophy at the Universite de Montreal. His primary interests are Philosophy of History, Methodology of Economics and Philosophy of Architecture. He is the author of Le marxisme des annees soixante and of numerous articles. DANIEL LAURIER was born in 1951 in Montreal. He studied philosophy at the Universite du Quebec a Montreal and the Universite de Provence Aix­ Marseille I, where he obtained his Ph.D. in 1983. He was a post-doctoral fellow at York in 1983-84 and at Cambridge in 1984-85. He is professor of philos­ ophy of language and analytical philosophy at the Universite de Montreal since 1987. He is the editor of Essais sur Ie sens et la rea lite (1991), co-editor of Essais sur Ie langage et l'intentionalite, author of Introduction a la philoso­ phie du langage (1993) and of several articles in the Philosophy of Language and the Philosophy of Mind. His main interests are in the theory of meaning NOTES ON THE AUTHORS 297 and intentionality. He is currently working on a monograph on radical inter­ pretation. JAMES McGILVRAY was born in India in 1942. He received his Ph.D. in philosophy from Yale in 1968, and has been at McGill University for twenty years. Except for a two-year period, he was Chair of the Department of Philosophy from 1984 to 1994. He has worked on issues of time and tense, the semantics of natural languages, and issues of color perception. A recent book, Tense, Reference and Worldmaking (1991) combines issues of tense with the semantics of natural languages. An article defending a subjectivist approach to color is forthcoming in Synthese. Prof. McGilvray continues to work on both issues of color perception and the semantics of natural languages. MARTIN MONTMINY, born in Sept-lIes, Quebec (1963), studied Physics at Universite Laval, where he obtained a B.Sc. and a M.Sc. He is currently working on his Ph.D. dissertation in Philosophy at the Universite de Montreal. His dissertation bears on the Foundations of Semantics of Natural Languages, a topic on which he has already published papers. ROBERT NADEAU, born in Montreal (1944), holds a Doctorate in Philosophy from the Universite de Paris X (1973). He wrote his dissertation under Paul Ricoeur's supervision on Ernst Cassirer's Philosophy of Language. Since 1971, he has been a Professor of Philosophy at the Universite du Quebec a Montreal, where he teaches Epistemology, the Philosophy of the Social Sciences and, for the last twelve years, the Methodology of Economics. He has edited three books, co-authored one and published numerous articles and chapters in edited books. He recently co-edited a special issue on Nelson Goodman of the Revue Internationale de Philosophie (Vol. 46, No. 185, 2/3/1993) and he is now preparing a special issue of Dialogue on Philosophy and Economics (Vol. 34, No.3, Summer 1995). He is also completing a monograph on Hayek's methodological writings. He is presently director of the Research Group on Rationality and Social Sciences (funded by the Quebec Government) and he is the managing editor of the long-standing working papers series Cahiers d' epistemologie (as of March 1994 more than 190 issues have been published). Finally, he is a former President of the Canadian Philosophical Association and from October 1991 to June 1994 served as President of the Canadian Federation of Humanities. CLAUDE PANACCIO, born in Montreal (1946), studied Philosophy and Medieval Sciences at the Universite de Montreal (Ph.D. 1978). He is Professor of Philosophy at the Universite du Quebec a Trois-Rivieres and, since 1991, co-editor of Dialogue, the journal of the Canadian Philosophical Association. His main fields of interest are Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Language, Ontology, and Medieval Philosophy. As well as many articles, he has authored Les mots, les concepts et les choses (on William of Ockham and today's 298 NOTES ON THE AUTHORS Nominalism) and co-edited Philosophie au Quebec (with P. A. Quintin) and L'ideologie et les strategies de la raison (with C. Savary). MICHEL SEYMOUR, born in Montreal (1954), holds a Ph.D. from the Universite du Quebec a Trois-Rivieres (1986). He was a Research Fellow at the University of California at Los Angeles (1988-90). He is Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the Universite de Montreal. He has published articles in areas such as Philosophy of Language and Philosophy of Mind. He is the author of Pensee, langage et communaute. Une perspective anti-individualiste (1994). EVAN THOMPSON, born in Ithaca N.Y. (1962), holds an A.B. in Asian Studies from Amherst College and a M.A. and Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of Toronto. From 1992-94 he was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy at Concordia University. He is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy and the Center for the Philosophy and History of Science at Boston University. His primary areas of interest are Cognitive Science, Philosophy of Biology, Philosophy of Mind and Comparative Philosophy. He is the author of Colour Vision: A Study in Cognitive Science and the Philosophy of Perception (1994), and (with Francisco J. Varela and Eleanor Rosch) of The Embodied Mind: Cognitive Science and Human Experience (1991). His articles have also appeared in Behavioral and Brain Sciences, Synthese, Philosophical Studies, Meta­ philosophy, and Philosophy East and West.