Jason Bridges - The Possibility of Philosophical Understanding: Reflections on the Thought of Barry Stroud

Jason Bridges is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Chicago. He works in the philosophy of mind, the philosophy of action, and the philosophy of language.

John Campbell is Willis S. and Marion Slusser Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley; before that he was Wilde Professor of Mental Philosophy at the University of Oxford. He is the author of Reference and Consciousness (2002) and Past, Space and Self(1994). He is currently working on causation in psychology.

Cheryl K. Chen is a lecturer in the philosophy department at Harvard University. Her main interests are in epistemology and the philosophy of mind. Recent publications include On Having a Point of View: Belief, Action and Egocentric States (Journal of Philosophy, 2008) and Bodily Awareness and Immunity to Error through Misidentification (European Journal of Philosophy, 2010).

Jonathan Ellis is Associate Professor at the University of California, Santa Cruz. His primary areas of research are philosophy of mind and epistemology. He has also published articles in philosophy of language, in metaphysics, and on Hume. He is currently co-editing a book,Wittgenstein and the Philosophy of Mind, with Daniel Guevara, forthcoming with Oxford University Press.

Robert J. Fogelin is an emeritus Professor of Philosophy and Sherman Fairchild Professor of Humanities at Dartmouth College. His publications since retiring include: Berkeley's (p.viii) Idealism, Walking The Tightrope of Reason, A Defense of Hume on Miracles, Taking Wittgenstein at His Word, and Hume's Skeptical Crisis.

Don Garrett is Professor of Philosophy at New York University. He works primarily in the history of early modern philosophy, with special interests in metaphysics, epistemology, philosophy of mind, and ethics. He is the author of Cognition and Commitment in Hume's Philosophy as well as numerous articles. He is the editor of The Cambridge Companion to Spinoza, and he has served as co-editor of Hume Studies and North American editor of Archiv fr Geschichte der Philosophie.

Hannah Ginsborg is Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley. She has published on Kant, in particular on his theory of knowledge, aesthetics and philosophy of biology, and on topics in contemporary theory of knowledge, philosophy of perception, and theory of meaning.

Niko Kolodny is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley, and a member of the New York Institute of Philosophy's Project on New Directions in Political Philosophy. He has held positions at Harvard University and the Research School of Social Sciences at the Australian National University. His main interests are in moral and political philosophy.

John McDowell studied at the University College of Rhodesia and Nyasaland and at New College, Oxford (where he profited from a revision class given by Barry Stroud). From 1966 to 1986 he taught at University College, Oxford, of which he is an Honorary Fellow. Since 1986 he has been a member of the Department of Philosophy at the University of Pittsburgh; he is a Distinguished University Professor. He is a Fellow of the British Academy and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Ernest Sosa is Board of Governors Professor of Philosophy at Rutgers University.

Sarah Stroud is Associate Professor of Philosophy at McGill University in Montreal, Canada. She studied philosophy at Harvard and Princeton and has been a visiting professor at MIT and a visiting researcher at the Universit de Provence. Her principal research interests range across meta-ethics, moral theory, and moral psychology. With Christine Tappolet, she co-editedWeakness of Will and Practical Irrationality (OUP, 2003), and she is Associate Editor of theInternational Encyclopedia of Ethics (currently under preparation for Wiley-Blackwell).

Michael Williams is Krieger-Eisenhower Professor and Chair of the Department of Philosophy at Johns Hopkins University. His main areas of interest are epistemology (with special reference to skepticism), philosophy of language, and the history of modern philosophy. In addition to numerous articles, he is the author of Groundless Belief (1977; 2nd edition 1999), Unnatural Doubts (1992; 2nd edition 1996), and Problems of Knowledge (p.ix) (2001). He is currently working on Curious Researches: Reflections on Skepticism Ancient and Modern.

Wai-hung Wong is Professor of Philosophy at California State University, Chico. His main areas of research are epistemology and metaphysics. He has also published articles in moral philosophy and the philosophy of religion.