Wednesday, April 24, 2013 8:45 a.m. “The Philosopher as Public Intellectual” PATRICK BAERT is Reader in Social Theory at the University of Cambridge. He is also Fellow and Director of Studies at Selwyn College, Cambridge. His research interests focus on social theory, philosophy of social science, and sociology of culture. He is the author of several publications, including Time, Self and Social Being (1992), Social Theory in the 20th Century (1998), Philosophy of the Social Sciences: Towards Pragmatism (2005), Social Theory in the Twentieth Century and Beyond (with F. Carreira da Silva, 2010), as well as editor of Time in Contemporary Intellectual Thought (2000), Pragmatism and European Social Theory (with BS Turner, 2007), Conflict, Citizenship and Civil Society (with S. Koniordos, G. Procacci and C. Ruzza, 2010), and Politics of Knowledge (with F. Rubio Dominguez, 2012). He has held visiting appointments at universities in Amiens, Aix-en-Provence, Berlin, Brussels, Cape Town, Concepcion, London, Paris, Providence (Rhode Island), Rome and Vancouver. He has served as Vice President for Publications of the European Sociological Association (ESA) and Coordinator of the Social Theory Research Network of the ESA. Professor Baert is Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Politics, Culture and Society (Springer). He holds editorial positions with a number of scholarly journals, including the Journal for Classical Sociology; the European Journal of Social Theory; and Distinktion - Scandinavian Journal of Social Theory. GRETCHEN REYDAMS-SCHILS is Professor and Chairperson in the Program of Liberal Studies and Concurrent Professor in the Departments of Philosophy and Theology at the University of Notre Dame. She specializes in the traditions of Platonism and Stoicism. Professor Reydams-Schils is the author of Demiurge and Providence, Stoic and Platonist Readings of Plato’s Timaeus (1999), An Anthology of Snakebites: On Women, Love and Philosophy (2001), The Roman Stoics: Self, Responsibility, and Affection (2005); and more than 40 scholarly essays and other works. She is also the editor of Plato’s Timaeus as Cultural Icon (2003) and Thinking Through Excerpts: Studies on Stobaeus (2011). Professor Reydams-Schils has received fellowships from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation and the Center for Hellenic Studies. She is also the recipient of numerous grants from organizations such as the Earhart Foundation, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and the Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation. In addition to her administrative duties in the Program of Liberal Studies, Professor Reydams-Schils directs the Notre Dame Workshop on Ancient Philosophy (NDWAP) and has served as a visiting scholar and professor at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität in Freiburg, and at the École Pratique des Hautes Études in Paris. KATHERINE A. BRADING is William J. and Dorothy K. O’Neill Collegiate Professor of Philosophy and Director of the History and Philosophy of Science Graduate Program in the John. J. Reilly Center for Science, Technology and Values at the University of Notre Dame. Her research focuses on philosophy of physics, especially symmetries and conservation laws in contemporary physics, quantum theory, relativity, and seventeenth-century figures including Descartes, Kepler and Newton. She is the author of more than 25 scholarly articles and co-editor of Symmetries in Physics: Philosophical Reflections (with E. Castellani, 2003). She serves as Section Editor for the Philosophy of Science section of Philosophy Compass as well as on the editorial boards of the European Journal for Philosophy of Science and Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics. Professor Brading, a past recipient of grant funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF), was recently awarded an American Academy of Learned Societies (ACLS) fellowship for her current research on Newton’s contributions to philosophy. She leads a project in Notre Dame’s Digital Visualization Theatre which explores how and why we changed our minds about the structure of the cosmos, shifting from geocentric cosmology to a cosmology in which the Sun is at the center of our planetary system. Professor Brading is a member of the British Society for the Philosophy of Science, the Philosophy of Science Association, and the Aristotelian Society. .