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Barbara Fultner

Max Pensky

Melissa Yates

Barbara Fultner

Joseph Heath

Joel Anderson

William Rehg

Kevin Olson

Christopher Zurn

Keith Haysom

Ciaran Cronin

Eduardo Mendieta

Joel Anderson was educated at Princeton, Northwestern and Frankfurt Universities and taught at Washington University in St Louis before joining the Philosophy Department of Utrecht University. His research focuses on questions of autonomy, agency, normativity and recognition in philosophical anthropology, ethics and social theory. He edited Free Will as Part of Nature: Habermas and His Critics (special issue of Philo-sophical Explorations, March 2007) and Autonomy and the Challenges to Liberalism (with John Christman; 2005). His current book project is entitled Scaffolded Autonomy: The Construction, Impairment, and Enhancement of Human Agency.

Ciaran Cronin is a freelance translator and author and is a research associate at the Centre Marc Bloch in Berlin. He previously taught philosophy at the University of Illinois in Chicago and at Grinnell Col?lege in Iowa. He has published a number of papers on Habermas and political philosophy and is co-editor (with Pablo De Greiff) of Global Justice and Transnational Politics (2002).

Barbara Fultner is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Denison Univer-sity. She is the translator of, among other volumes, Jrgen Habermass Truth and Justification (2003). She works on topics in philosophy of language and social theory, with a special interest in intersubjectivity. Her articles have appeared in journals including Philosophical Stud-ies, The International Journal of Philosophical Studies and Continental Philosophy Review. In 20089, she was a Fellow at the University of Connecticut Humanities Institute.

Keith Haysom is a recent graduate of the New School for Social Research. He is currently teaching at the School for Political Studies, University of Ottawa and the Department of Political Science, Carleton University, in Ottawa, Canada. His research interests include critical theory, theories of intersubjectivity and language, social movements and global justice.

Joseph Heath is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Toronto. He is the author of Communicative Action and Rational Choice (2001), Following the Rules (2008) and various scholarly articles on the subject of critical theory, Habermas and practical rationality.

Eduardo Mendieta is Professor of Philosophy at the State University of New York, Stony Brook. He is the author of The Adventures of Tran-scendental Philosophy (2002) and Global Fragments: Globalizations, Latinamericanisms, and Critical Theory (2007). He recently co-edited (with Chad Kautzer) Pragmatism, Nation, and Race: Community in the Age of Empire (2009). He is presently at work on another book entitled Philosophys War: Logos, Polemos, Topos.

Kevin Olson is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Irvine. He is the author of Reflexive Democracy: Political Equality and the Welfare State (2006) and editor of Adding Insult to Injury: Nancy Fraser Debates Her Critics (2008). His work has also been published in the American Journal of Political Science, the Journal of Politics, Constellations and the Journal of Political Philosophy. In 20067 he was an Erasmus Mundus Scholar at Utrecht University, The Netherlands.

Max Pensky is Professor of Philosophy at Binghamton University, State University of New York. His recent works include The Ends of Solidarity: Discourse Theory in Ethics and Politics (2008). Current research projects include a study of the role of memory and forgetting in critical theory, and the status of amnesties for international crimes.

William Rehg is Professor of Philosophy at Saint Louis University. He is the author of Cogent Science in Context: The Science Wars, Argumenta-tion Theory, and Habermas (2009) and Insight and Solidarity: The Dis-course Ethics of Jrgen Habermas (1994); the translator of Habermass Between Facts and Norms (1996); and co-editor (with James Bohman) of Deliberative Democracy (1997) and Pluralism and the Pragmatic Turn (2001).

Melissa Yates is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Rutgers University in Camden, New Jersey. She specializes in social and political philoso-phy, with particular interests in the works of Habermas and Rawls.

Christopher Zurn is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Massachusetts Boston. He works on topics in constitutional democ-racy and in contemporary critical theory. He has authored Deliberative Democracy and the Institutions of Judicial Review (2007); co-edited (with Boudewijn de Bruin) New Waves in Political Philosophy