Jeff Malpas - Death and Philosophy

Roger Ames is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Hawaii, in Honolulu, and editor of the journal Philosophy East-West. His books include The Art of Rulership: A Study of Ancient Chinese Political Thought and (with J.Baird Callicott) Nature in Asian Traditions of Thought: Essays in Environmental Philosophy. He is the author of numerous articles on aspects of Chinese philosophy and culture as well as the editor of a number of collections.

Betty Sue Flowers is Professor of English at the University of Texas at Austin. She is the author of Browning and the Modern as well as of a number of volumes of poetry including Extending the Shade.

Kathleen Higgins is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Texas at Austin. She is the author of Nietzsches Zarathustra and (with Robert C. Solomon) of A Very Brief History of Philosophy as well as editor (with Bernd Magnus) of The Cambridge Companion to Nietzsche.

Tem Horwitz is the managing partner of Horwitz-Matthews, in Chicago Illinois, and, in addition to his business activities, has authored or edited several books on a variety of subjects, founded Cloud Hands, and been recognized for his photographic work.

Peter Kraus is a recently graduated postgraduate student at the University of Auckland and is working on the philosophy of Martin Heidegger. He is also the host and organizer of the conference from which most of these essays originated.

Peter Loptson is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Saskatchewan and the (English-language) editor of Dialogue: Canadian Philosophical Review. He is the author of Theories of Human Nature, and editor of Anne Conways Principles of the Most Ancient and Modern Philosophy. He has published many articles on a variety of topics including the history of philosophy, modal logic, philosophy of history, and metaphysics.

Jeff Malpas is currently a Humboldt Research Fellow at the University of Heidelberg. He is the author of Donald Davidson and the Mirror of Meaning and the editor of The Philosophical Papers of Alan Donagan. He has published on a variety of topics in scholarly journals and has recently completed a book on the nature and philosophical significance of place.

Graham Parkes is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Hawaii. He is the editor of Nietzsche and Asian Thought and Heidegger and Asian Thought, translator of The Self-Overcoming of Nihilism by Nishitani Keiji and Heideggers Hidden Sources: East-Asian Influences on His Work by Reinhard May, and author of Composing the Soul: Reaches of Nietzsches Psychology. Ivan Soll is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. He is the author of An Introduction to Hegels Metaphysics and of a number of articles on Hegel, Nietzsche and others.

Robert C.Solomon is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Texas at Austin and the author of numerous books and articles covering a wide range of philosophical topics. His most recent publications include Ethics and Excellence, A Passion for Justice and, with Kathleen Higgins, A Short History of Philosophy.

Reinhard Steiner is Professor of Art History at the University of Stuttgart. He is the author of books on Leonardo da Vinci, Egon Schiele and the figure of Prometheus in art, as well as articles in aesthetics and art history.

Robert Wicks is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Auckland. He has written on the aesthetics of Kant and Hegel, and on Schopenhauer, Nietzsche and Foucault. He has a special interest in the experiential and psychological aspects of philosophical theories.