Diprose Rosalyn - Merleau-Ponty: Key Concepts

Rosalyn Diprose is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of New South Wales. She is the author of Corporeal Generosity: On Giving with Nietzsche, Merleau-Ponty, and Levinas (2002), The Bodies of Women: Ethics, Embodiment and Sexual Difference (1994), many chapters and journal articles, and co-editor of Cartographies: Poststructuralism and the Mapping of Bodies and Spaces (1991).

Jack Reynolds is Lecturer in Philosophy at La Trobe University. He is the author of Merleau-Ponty and Derrida: Intertwining Embodiment and Alterity (2004), Understanding Existentialism (Acumen, 2005), and multiple journal articles on the relation between Merleau-Ponty and philosophers including Levinas, Derrida and Deleuze.

Harry Adams is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Prairie View A & M University. He is a moral and political philosopher and an emerging Merleau-Ponty scholar whose publications include Merleau-Ponty and the Advent of Meaning: From Consummate Reciprocity to Ambiguous Reversibility, in Continental Philosophy Review (2001).

Thomas Busch is Professor of Philosophy at Villanova University. He is a leading scholar in Merleau-Ponty studies and existentialism. His books include: Circulating Being: From Embodiment to Incorporation (1999), The Power of Consciousness and the Force of Circumstances in Sartres Philosophy (1990), and Merleau-Ponty, Hermeneutics and Postmodernism (co-editor, 1992).

Taylor Carman is Professor of Philosophy at Barnard College, Columbia University. He has published numerous articles on topics in phenomenology, including Merleau-Pontys philosophy. He is author of Heideggers Analytic: Interpretation, Discourse, and Authenticity in Being And Time (2003), Merleau-Ponty (2008) and co-editor of The Cambridge Companion to Merleau-Ponty (2004).

Suzanne L. Cataldi is Professor of Philosophy at Southern Illinois University. She has published numerous papers utilizing Merleau-Pontys philosophy and is well known for her detailed study of emotion and affectivity in Emotion, Depth, and Flesh: A Study of Sensitive Space: Reflections on Merleau-Pontys Philosophy of Embodiment (1993). She is also co-editor of Merleau-Ponty and Environmental Philosophy (2007).

David R. Cerbone is Associate Professor of Philosophy at West Virginia University. He is the author of Understanding Phenomenology (Acumen, 2006) and multiple journal articles on Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty, perception, and Daniel Dennett.

Scott Churchill is Professor of Psychology at the University of Dallas. He is the author of numerous articles on phenomenology, gestural communication, sexuality and second-person perspectivity, often drawing on the philosophy of Merleau-Ponty. He is editor of The Humanistic Psychologist and studies interspecies communications with bonobos at the Fort Worth Zoo.

Diana Coole is Professor of Political and Social Theory at Birkbeck College, University of London. She has extensive publications in the fields of modern political and social theory and continental political philosophy, which include several essays on Merleau-Pontys political philosophy. Her books include Negativity and Politics: Dionysus and Dialectics from Kant to Poststructuralism (2000) and Merleau-Ponty and Modern Politics after Anti-Humanism (2007).

Nick Crossley is Professor of Sociology at the University of Manchester. He has been at the forefront of bringing Merleau-Pontys philosophy to bear on sociology and critical social theory. His books include: The Social Body: Habit, Identity and Desire (2001), which draws on the work of Gilbert Ryle and Merleau-Ponty, Intersubjectivity: The Fabric of Social Becoming (1996), The Politics of Subjectivity: Between Foucault and Merleau-Ponty (1994) and Reflexions in the Flesh: The Body in Late Modernity (forthcoming).

Fred Evans is Professor of Philosophy at Duquesne University. He has numerous publications on Merleau-Pontys philosophy, which are unique in the way they intersect with philosophy of psychology, language and technology. He has chapters on Merleau-Ponty in his books, Psychology and Nihilism: A Genealogical Critique of the Computational Model of Mind (1993) and The Multi-Voiced Body: Society, Communication, and the Age of Diversity (forthcoming), and is co-editor of Chiasms: Merleau-Pontys Notion of Flesh (2000).

Shaun Gallagher is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Central Florida and Research Professor of Philosophy and Cognitive Science at the University of Hertfordshire. He has led the way in bringing Merleau-Pontys concepts to philosophy of mind, psychology and cognitive neuroscience. His most recent book, How the Body Shapes the Mind (2005), is a detailed study of this topic. He is also author of The Inordinance of Time (1998), co-author of The Phenomenological Mind (forthcoming) and co-editor of Ipseity and Alterity: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Intersubjectivity (2004), and Merleau-Ponty, Hermeneutics, and Postmodernism (1992).