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Notes on Contributors
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sign. Mumia Abu-Jamal was a radio journalist in Philadelphia, known as “the voice of the voiceless”. He won a Major Armstrong Award for radio journalism, and was named one of Philadelphia’s “people to watch” in 1981 by Philadelphia magazine. He was president of the Association of Black Journalists in Philadelphia. In December of 1981, Mumia was shot by a Philadelphia cop when he intervened in a street incident where the cop was beating his brother with a flashlight. The police officer was also shot and killed, and witnesses saw other men run from the scene. When police arrived, they beat the wounded Mumia before taking him to the hospital, and he was charged with murder. Mumia has spent 19 years in prison, facing execution for a crime he did not commit. In 1995 he was put in disciplinary confinement for writing the book Live From Death Row (Addison-Wesley, 1995; Paperback by Avon, 1996). His other books are Death Blossoms (Plough Publishing, 1997, with a preface by Julia Wright, daughter of Richard Wright), Survival Is Still a Crime (Friends and Family of Mumia Abu-Jamal Press, 1990), and Still Black, Still Strong, Interviews with three political prisoners. by Dhoruba Bin Wahad, Mumia Abu-Jamal, & Assata Shakur (Semio-text, 1993). Homepages: http://www.mumia.org / http://www.mumia2000.org / http://www.freemumia.com/ Email of the coordinators of the free campaign: mumia @ aol.com
Nonka
Bogomilova is
Senior Research Fellow at the
Institute of Philosophy, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. Her
main fields of specialisation and research are Philosophy of Religion and
Philosophical Anthropology. She was long years member of the Editorial Board of Filosofski
alternativi. N. Bogomilova is co-editor and co-author of the collections Identities
(Sofia, 1995) and Universal and National in Bulgarian Culture (Sofia,
1996), and author of the book Longing for the Absolute, Sofia, 1994. Homepage:
http://ipr-bas.hit.bg/Bogomilova.html Email:
nbogomilova @ diana.nbu.acad.bg Laurie
Calhoun is
the author of Philosophy Unmasked: A
Skeptic's Critique (University Press of Kansas, 1997) and numerous published
essays, poems, and articles. She
has taught philosophy at the University of South Florida, SUNY College at
Fredonia, and St. Cloud State University, and chemistry at California State
University, Northridge. Currently
she lives and works in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Email:
lcalhoun @ fas.harvard.edu
Eric
Dieth,
Dr. Jur., has study Sociology and Jurisprudence in Zurich, and is
Research Fellow at the Institute of International Law (Institut für Völkerrecht
und ausländisches Verfassungsrecht) at Zurich University. He
is the author of Politisiertes Recht oder verrechtlichte Politik? : Gedanken
zur sozialen Konstruktion der Differenz von Recht und Politik. Zürich :
Schulthess Juristische Medien, 2000. - XXXI, 224 p., and "Verfahren -
Mittel zum Zweck oder Gemeinschaft?", in: Schindler, Benjamin/Schlauri,
Regula: Auf dem Weg zu einem einheitlichen Verfahren, Zürich 2001, S.
27-46. He
works actually on his habilitation. Email: eric.dieth @ bluewin.ch
Yolanda Estes,
Ph.D, teaches philosophy at Mississippi State University. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Kentucky in
1997 with a dissertation on Fichte. She
specializes in German idealism and feminist ethical philosophy.
Her publications include “Kantian Moral Reflections on Prostitution”
in Essays in Philosophy, “The Philosophy of Sex and Love” Vol. 2 No.
2 (2001), “Intellectual Intuition, the Pure Will, and the Categorical
Imperative in the Later Jena Wissenschaftslehre” in New
Essays on Fichte’s Later Jena Wissenschaftslehre, edited by D. Breazeale
and T. Rockmore (Chicago, IL: Northwestern University Press), “Confessions of
a Refugee: My Life as a Loner, Rebel, and Renegade” in Marginal Groups and
Mainstream American Society, edited by Y. Estes et al (Lawrence, KS:
University Press of Kansas, 2000), and “The Myth of the Happy Hooker” in Violence
Against Women: Philosophical Perspectives, edited by W. Teays et al (Ithaca,
NY: Cornell University Press, 1998).
Roland Faber Homepage: http://mailbox.univie.ac.at/Roland.Faber/ Email:
roland.faber @ univie.ac.at
Domenico Jervolino,
PhD, is professor of philosophy
Stefan Knoche, PhD, is teaching at the Department for Cultural Studies at the University of Bremen. He has conducted Seminars on Heidegger, Derida, Arendt, Foucault, Zizek a.o. He is author of the book Benjamin - Heidegger. Über Gewalt. Die Politisierung der Kunst (Turia + Kant: Wien 2000), and of different articles on Art, Ethics and Political Philosophy.
Anton Karl Kozlovic (MA, MEd, MEdStudies) is a PhD candidate in the School of Humanities at The Flinders University of South Australia. He is interested in
Religion, Film and Philosophy and has published articles in Australian Religion Studies Review, Compass: A Review of Topical Theological, Journal of Christian Education, Journal of Religious Education, The Journal of Religion and Film, Marburg Journal of Religion, Nowa Fantastyka, Organdi Quarterly, Religious Education Journal of Australia and Teaching Sociology. Philippe Lauria has a M.A. in philosophy and PhD in economics. He has
been lecturer at the university of Grenoble, and is working now on a
dissertation about The Signification of transfinite ensembles and the
ontology of G. Cantor at the J. Moulin University Lyon III. His main fields
of specialisation and research are concentred on the intersection of
epistemology, philosophy and ethics. He is author of different articles about
responsibility, the civil pact of solidarity, recently voted in France, and
power.
Paul McLauglin teaches at the
Philosophy Institute, Pedagogical Academy of Zielona Gora, Poland. He is currently completing
his PhD on 'The Philosophical Basis of Mikhail Bakunin's Anarchism'. His areas of interest are
Political Philosophy (especially anarchism and liberalism) and Email:
pcmclaughlin @ yahoo.com Jason L. Mallory Jason L. Mallory graduated from the University of Texas at Austin with a double major in Philosophy and Psychology, with Special Honors in Philosophy. He has published essays on various contemporary ethical issues and is currently doing research and writing on ecological feminism for his Master's thesis at Texas A&M University. Email: SPINOZA20 @ aol.com
Nikolay
Milkov (PhD, University of Moscow) is a Research Fellow at the Institute of
Philosophy, Bulgarian Academy of Science. Since 1989 he works mainly at the
Abteilung Philosophie, Universität Bielefeld, where he newly applied for his Habilitation.
Milkov is the author of Kaleidoscopic Mind,
Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1992, and Varieties of
Understanding: English Philosophy since 1898, 2 vols., Frankfurt: Peter
Lang, 1997. His third book, A Hundred
Years of English Philosophy, will
appear later this year in Kluwer: Dordrecht. Milkov is also the author of more
than forty articles published in The
British Journal of the History of Philosophy, Analecta Husserliana, Archiv
für Begriffsgeschichte, Historisches
Wörterbuch der Philosophie, Prima
philosophia, Studies in East
European Philosophy, etc. In
1988 he translated Ludwig Wittgenstein’s Logisch-philosophische
Abhandlung, Philosophische
Untersuchungen, and Bemerkungen über
die Grundlagen der Mathematik into Bulgarian (Naouka i Izkoustvo: Sofia).
Susanne Moser, Phd, is Permanent Fellow and Head of Programs of the Institute for Axiological Research, Vienna, Co-founder and first President of the Union of Feminist Academics, Vienna. She is author of the book Freedom and recognition in the work of Simone de Beauvoir (diskord, Tuebingen 2002), co-editor of the book Feministische Philosophie: Perspektiven und Debatten (2000), and author of different articles on Gender Studies. Homepage: http://moser.iaf.ac.at Email: Susanne.Moser @ univie.ac.at or moser @ iaf.ac.at
Edward Nilges is a programmer, publicist and educator. He has published different articles in the Annals of the History of Computing and other journals. spinoza1111 @ yahoo.com or spinoza9999@ dejanews.com
Vassil Prodanov, PhD, ScD, is Professor, Head of the Department of "Philosophy of History", and Director of the Institute of Philosophy, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. He is also Professor of Political Sciences and History of Political Thought at Plovdiv University. He is author of the books Good and Ought (Sofia, 1978, With V. Momov a.o.), Knowledge and Value (Sofia, 1979), Social Control and Human Behaviour (Sofia, 1981), Biosocial Values (Sofia, 1982), Society and Person (Sofia, 1983, With M.Markov) Socialism and Ideals (Sofia, 1985), Quality of Work, Ideology & Person (Sofia, 1986), Ethics and Value of Human Life (Sofia, 1986), Axiology of Human Body (Sofia, 1988), Person and Politics (Sofia, 1988), Bioethics (Sofia, 1988), Ritual Activity in Sofia (Sofia, 1989, With A. Marinov and M.Lazarov), Morality and Public Life in a Time of Change (Editor, Washington, 1994, in English). Email:
Yvanka B. Raynova
, PhD, is Senior Research Fellow and Head of the Department for
Contemporary European Philosophy and Gender Studies at the Institute of
Philosophy, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. She is also President of the
Bulgarian Society for Francophone Philosophy and Culture, and Director of the
Institute for Axiological Research, Vienna. She is Editor of different
Collections on Contemporary Philosophy, and has translated into Bulgarian
Sartre’s L’être et le néant and Ricoeur’s Le conflit des
interprétations. About her main publications are the books From
Existential Philosophy to Postpersonalism (1992), From Husserl to Ricoeur
(1993), Jean-Paul Sartre, the Philosopher without God, 2 vol. (1995),
Philosophy at the End of XX Century (1995). Homepage:
http://raynova.iaf.ac.at.html Email: raynova @ europeanphilosophy.org & yvanka.raynova @ univie.ac.at
Mary-Kate G. Smith
has obtained the B. A. in Philosophy at the George Washington University Washington,
D.C., and is actually a masters student in Email:
M124KATE @ aol.com Marco Zlomislic - a philosopher and writer is waiting to defend his PhD thesis on Jacques Derrida's Aporetic Ethics at the Dominicain College of Philosophy and Theology in Ottawa, Canada. His interests include existential and postmodern ethics. Together with David Goicoechea he has co-written, The Sorrowful Mysteries: a postmodern poethics (Zagreb: Sipar, 1998) and has published articles on Nietzsche, Scheler, Focault, Genet, Derrida and Kristeva. Zlomislic worked as an assistant researcher at the Institute of Social Sciences Ivo Pilar in Zagreb, Croatia, where he wrote the introduction to the Croatian translation of Jacques Derrida's L'autre cap (The Other Heading) Email: zlomislic @ hotmail.com
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