New members of PGR Advisory Board for 2004-06

UPDATED TO REFLECT 2 ADDITIONAL NEW BOARD MEMBERS

I am pleased to introduce seventeen additional distinguished philosophers who will be joining the Advisory Board of the Philosophical Gourmet Report and lending their expertise to the preparation of the 2004-06 Report. They are:

Chris Bobonich (PhD, Berkeley) is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Stanford University, and has also taught at the University of Chicago. Area: Ancient Philosophy. Books include Plato's Utopia Recast: His Later Ethics and Politics (Oxford University Press, 2002); articles have appeared in numerous journals and edited collections.

David O. Brink (PhD, Cornell) is Professor of Philosophy at the University of California at San Diego, and has also taught at the Massachussetts Institute of Technology, Stanford University, and Case Western Reserve University. Areas: Ethics, History of Ethics, Political Philosophy, Philosophy of Law. Books include Moral Realism and the Foundations of Ethics (Cambridge University Press, 1989); articles have appeared in Philosophical Review, Ethics, Philosophy & Public Affairs, The Monist, and elsewhere.

Alex Byrne (PhD, Princeton) is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the Massachussetts Institute of Technology. Areas: Philosophy of Mind, Metaphysics. Articles have appeared in Philosophical Review, Mind, Journal of Philosophy, Philosophical Studies, and elsewhere.

John Carriero (PhD, Harvard) is Professor of Philosophy at the University of California at Los Angeles, and has also taught at Harvard University and Massachussetts Institute of Technology. Area: Early Modern Philosophy. Articles have appeared in Journal of the History of Philosophy, Philosophical Topics, Studia Leibnitiana, Faith and Philosophy, and elsewhere.

Justin D’Arms (PhD, Michigan) is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Ohio State University. Areas: Ethics, Metaethics, Philosophy of the Emotions. Articles have appeared in Ethics, Journal of Philosophy, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, and elsewhere.

Michael Devitt (PhD, Harvard) is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the City University of New York Graduate Center, and has also taught at Victoria University (Wellington) and the Universities of Maryland (College Park), Michigan (Ann Arbor), Southern California, and Sydney. Areas: Philosophy of Language, Philosophy of Mind, Metaphysics. Fellow of the Australian Academy of Humanities. Books include Realism and Truth (Blackwell, 2nd ed., 1991) and Coming to Our Senses: A Naturalistic Program for Semantic Localism (Cambridge University Press, 1996).

Lisa J. Downing (PhD, Princeton) is Associate Professor of Philosphy at the University of Illinois at Chicago, and has also taught at Yale University and the University of Pennsylvania. Areas: Early Modern Philosophy, 17th and 18th Century Natural Philosophy and Philosophy of Science. Articles have appeared in Philosophical Review, British Journal for the History of Philosophy, The Cambridge Companion to Berkeley, Journal of the History of Philosophy, and elsewhere.

Sebastian Gardner (PhD, Cambridge) is Professor of Philosophy at University College London, and has also taught at Birkbeck College, University of London. Areas: Kant, 19th-Century German Philosophy, 20th-Century Continental Philosophy, Philosophy of Psychoanalysis, Aesthetics. Books include Irrationality and the Philosophy of Psychoanaylsis (Cambridge University Press, 1993) and Kant and the Critique of Pure Reason (Routledge, 1998).

Delia Graff (PhD, MIT) is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Cornell University, and has also taught at Princeton University. Areas: Logic, Philosophy of Language, Metaphysics. Winner of the 2002 APA Article Prize. Articles have appeared in Mind, Philosophical Studies, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, and elsewhere.

Patricia Greenspan (PhD, Harvard) is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Maryland at College Park, and has also taught at Indiana (Bloomington) and Ohio State Universities and the University of Chicago. Areas: Ethics, Philosophy of Mind and Action. Books include Emotions and Reasons: An Inquiry into Emotional Justification (Routledge, 1988) and Practical Guilt: Moral Dilemmas, Emotions, and Social Norms (Oxford University Press, 1995).

Calvin Normore (PhD, Toronto) is Professor of Philosophy at the University of California at Los Angeles, and Honorary Research Consultant in Philosophy at the University of Queensland. He has also taught at Ohio State, Princeton and York Universities and the Universities of California at Irvine and Toronto. Areas: Medieval Philosophy, Early Modern Philosophy, Social and Political Philosophy. Articles have appeared in Synthèse, Vivrium, The Cambridge Companion to Ockham and elsewhere.

Graham Priest (PhD, London) is Boyce Gibson Professor of Philosophy at the University of Melbourne and Arché Professorial Fellow at the University of St. Andrews. He has also taught at the Universities of Queensland and Western Australia. Areas: Logic, Metaphysics. Books include Beyond the Limits of Thought (Cambridge University Press, 1995) and Introduction to Non-Classical Logic (Cambridge University Press, 2001).

Jonathan Schaffer (PhD, Rutgers) is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Massachussetts at Amherst. Areas: Metaphysics, Epistemology. Winner of the 2002 Young Epistemologist Prize. Articles have appeared in Journal of Philosophy, Philosophy of Science, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Noûs, and elsewhere.

Brian Skyrms (PhD, Pittsburgh) is UCI Distinguished Professor of Logic & Philosophy of Science and Economics at the University of California at Irvine, and has also taught at the Universities of California (Berkeley and Santa Barbara), Delaware, Illinois (Chicago), Michigan (Ann Arbor), and North Carolina (Chapel Hill). Areas: Decision, Game and Rational Choice Theory, Logic, Metaphysics, Epistemology, Philosophy of Science. Fellow of both the American Academy of Arts & Sciences and the National Academy of Sciences. Books include Causal Necessity (Yale University Press, 1980), Evolution of the Social Contract (Cambridge University Press, 1996), and The Stag Hunt and the Evolution of Social Structure (Cambridge University press, forthcoming).

Robert Stern (PhD, Cambridge) is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Sheffield. Areas: Kant, 19th-Century German Philosophy, Metaphysics, Epistemology. Editor of European Journal of Philosophy and former editor of the Bulletin of the Hegel Society of Great Britain. Books include Transcendental Arguments and Skepticism (Oxford University Press, 2000) and Hegel and the Phenomenology of Spirit (Routledge, 2002)

Ted A. Warfield (PhD, Rutgers) is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Notre Dame. Areas: Epistemology, Philosophy of Mind, Metaphysics, Philosophy of Action, Philosophy of Religion. Articles have appeared in Mind, Philosophical Studies, Noûs, Analysis, and elsewhere.

Julian Young (PhD, Pittsburgh) is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Auckland and Honorary Research Associate in Philosophy at the University of Tasmania. Areas: 19th-Century German Philosophy, 20th-Century Continental Philosophy. Books include Heidegger’s Later Philosophy (Cambridge University Press, 2002) and The Death of God and the Meaning of Life (Routledge, 2003).