Gibson John - The Literary Wittgenstein

Alex Burri is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Erfurt. He is, together with Klaus Petrus, the founder and editor of Facta Philosophica, an international journal for contemporary philosophy.

Stanley Cavell officially retired six years ago after some four decades of teaching at Harvard. Two books from his hand are to appear next year, Emersons Transcendental Etudes and Cities of Words (a presentation of a course offered in Harvards Core Curriculum several times between 1987 and 1995).

Cora Diamond was Kenan Professor of Philosophy, University Professor and Professor of Law at the University of Virginia, where she is now Professor Emerita. She also taught at Princeton University, Aberdeen University and the University of Sussex. She is the author of The Realistic Spirit: Wittgenstein,Philosophy, and the Mind (MIT Press, 1991) and the editor of Wittgensteins Lectures onthe Foundations of Mathematics, Cambridge 1939 (University of Chicago Press, 1976).

Richard Eldridge is the author of An Introduction to the Philosophy of Art (2003), The Persistence of Romanticism (2001), Leading a Human Life: Wittgenstein,Intentionality, and Romanticism (1997), and On Moral Personhood (1989). He edited Stanley Cavell (2003) and Beyond Representation: Philosophy and Poetic Imagination. (1996). He is a Professor of Philosophy at Swarthmore College.

John Gibson is currently Visiting Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Temple University. He works in the areas of philosophy of literature, aesthetics, and the philosophy of mind and language. He is currently completing a manuscript entitled Fiction and the Weave of Life.

Timothy Gould is the author of Hearing Things: Voice and Method in the Writing ofStanley Cavell and of articles on Kants aesthetics and its romantic and modernist aftermaths. He is writing a manuscript entitled Prophets of theEveryday. He teaches at Metro State College in Denver.

James Guetti has been concerned since the early 1980s to show how Wittgensteins work may illuminate and re-direct our accounts of certain experiences of reading. His Wittgenstein and the Grammar of Literary Experience appeared in 1993. He is retired and lives in Leverett, Massachusetts.

Garry L. Hagberg is the James H. Ottaway, Jr. Professor of Philosophy and Aesthetics at Bard College, where he is also director of the Program in Philosophy and the Arts. He is the author of Art as Language: Wittgenstein,Meaning, and Aesthetic Theory and Meaning and Interpretation: Wittgenstein, HenryJames, and Literary Knowledge, as well as of numerous articles, essays, and reviews in aesthetics. He is presently at work on a book on philosophical issues of autobiographical knowledge, and is co-editor, with Denis Dutton, of Philosophy and Literature. Also a jazz guitarist for many years, he is co-author, with Howard Roberts, of the three-volume Guitar Compendium: Technique,Improvisation, Musicianship, Theory, and guest-edited a special issue of TheJournal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism on Improvisation in the Arts.

Bernard Harrison is currently Emeritus E. E. Ericksen Professor of Philosophy in the University of Utah and Honorary Professor of Philosophy in the University of Sussex. His books include Form and Content (Blackwell, 1973), Fieldings Tom Jones: The Novelist as Moral Philosopher