Shand - Central Works of Philosophy v4: Twentieth Century: Moore to Popper

Robert L. Arrington is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Georgia State University, Atlanta. He is the author of Rationalism, Realism, and Relativism and Western Ethics , and the editor of A Companion to the Philosophers and The Worlds Great Philosophers . He is also the coeditor of three collections of essays on Wittgenstein.

Pascal Engel is Professor of Philosophy at Universit de Paris IVSorbonne. He has written on philosophy of logic, of language and of mind. He is the author of The Norm of Truth and Truth (Acumen), Ramsey, Truth and Success (with J. Dokic) and editor of New Inquiries into Meaning and Truth .

Hans-Johann Glock is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Reading. He is the author of A Wittgenstein Dictionary and Quine and Davidson . He has edited The Rise of Analytic Philosophy and Wittgenstein: A Critical Reader , and coedited Wittgensteins Philosophical Investigations and Wittgenstein and Quine .

Barry Gower was formerly Professor of Philosophy at the University of Durham. His current research interests are in how probabilistic reasoning has been used in science, and in the relations between metaphysical thinking and scientific theorizing.

Charles Guignon is Professor of Philosophy at the University of South Florida. He is the author of Heidegger and the Problem of Knowledge and On Being Authentic , and editor of The Cambridge Companion to Heidegger and Existentialism: Basic Writings .

Rom Harr began his academic career in mathematics and physics, being drawn into philosophy and psychology under the influence of Gilbert Ryle and John Austin. He is currently Emeritus Fellow of Linacre College, Oxford, and Distinguished Research Professor at Georgetown University, Washington DC. His most recent books include One Thousand Years of Philosophy and Cognitive Science: A Philosophical Introduction .

Christopher Hookway is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Sheffield. His research interests lie in epistemology, the philosophy of language and the study of American Pragmatism, and his books include Peirce in the Arguments of the Philosophers series, Scepticism and Truth, Rationality, and Pragmatism: Themes from Peirce .

Eric Matthews studied philosophy at Oxford with Grice, Ayer and Ryle, and taught philosophy for almost forty years at the University of Aberdeen, apart from two visiting appointments at US universities. Currently, he is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the University of Aberdeen, but continues to write, mainly on the philosophy of psychiatry.

William R. Schroeder currently teaches post-Kantian continental philosophy at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. His books include Sartre and His Predecessors: The Self and the Other and Continental Philosophy: A Critical Approach . He coedited the Blackwell Companion to Continental Philosophy .

John Shand studied philosophy at the University of Manchester and Kings College, Cambridge. He is an Associate Lecturer in Philosophy at The Open University and is the author of Arguing Well and Philosophy and Philosophers: An Introduction to Western Philosophy (second edition, Acumen) and editor of Fundamentals of Philosophy .

Jeremy Shearmur studied at the London School of Economics, and subsequently worked there as assistant to Karl Popper. He later taught philosophy at the University of Edinburgh, political theory at the University of Manchester and was Research Associate Professor at George Mason University, Virginia. He currently teaches philosophy at the Australian National University.

A. D. Smith is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Sussex. He is the author of The Problem of Perception and Husserl and the Cartesian Meditations as well as several articles in the areas of the history of philosophy, the philosophy of mind and action and the philosophy of language.

Philip Stratton-Lake is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Reading. He is the author of Kant, Duty and Moral Worth and editor of Ethical Intuitionism: Re-evaluations , the revised edition of W. D. Rosss The Right and the Good and On What We Owe To Each Other .