Notes on Contributors

Robert Berman is Professor of Philosophy at Xavier University of

Louisiana. His research interests include, in addition to Hegel, central
topics in political philosophy, ethics, philosophy of law, logic, epistemology,
metaphysics, and philosophy of language.
John W. Burbidge is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Trent University,
Peterborough, Ontario. He is author of On Hegels Logic (1981), Hegel on
Logic and Religion (1992), Real Process: How Logic and Chemistry Combine in
Hegels Philosophy of Nature (1996) and Historical Dictionary of Hegelian
Philosophy (2001). He was President of the Hegel Society of America from
1988 to 1990, and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.
Clark Butler is Professor and Chair of Philosophy at Purdue University, at
the Indiana University-Perdue University Fort Wayne Campus. He is author
of G.W.F. Hegel (1977), Hegels Logic: Between Dialectic and History (1996),
History as the Story of Freedom (1997), Human Rights Ethics (2005), with article
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on the dialectic, pan-psychism, and the nature of metaphysics, speculative
theology, and human rights. As Principal Investigator for an NEH
major grant, he translated, with commentary, Hegel: The Letters (1984). His
edition of Hegels Lectures on Logic will appear in 2005 with Indiana
University Press. He directs the IPFW Institute for Human Rights.
David Gray Carlson is Professor of Law at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School
of Law. He is the editor of Hegel and Legal Theory (1991), Deconstruction and
the Possibility of Justice (1994), Law and the Postmodern Mind: Essays on
Psychoanalysis and Jurisprudence (1998) and the author of the forthcoming
volume, Realm of Shadows: Hegels Logic Explained.
Stephen Houlgate is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Warwick.
He is the author of Hegel, Nietzsche and the Criticism of Metaphysics (1986)
and Freedom, Truth, and History: An Introduction to Hegels Philosophy (1991),
as well as numerous articles on Hegel, Kant and Nietzsche. He served as
Vice-President of the Hegel Society of America from 1992 to 1994 and was
President of the Hegel Society of America from 1994 to 1996.
Allegra de Laurentiis is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the State
University of New York-Stony Brook. She is the author of Marx und Engels
Rezeption der Hegelschen Kantkritik. Ein Widerspruch im Materialismus (1983).
She has written articles on Hegel and on aspects of Hegels philosophy to
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