Notes on Contributors
Manfred Baum
is Professor of Philosophy Emeritus at the Bergische Universität Wuppertal. He is the former President of the Internationale Kant-Gesellschaft and co-editor of Kant Studien. In addition to many articles, he is the author of two books: Deduktion und Beweis in Kants Transzendentalphilosophie. Untersuchungen zur Kritik der reinen Vernunft (Athenäum, 1986) and Die Entstehung der Hegelschen Dialektik (Bouvier, 1986; 2nd ed., 1989). He has also co-edited the Gesammelte Schriften of Klaus Reich (Meiner, 2001) and Volume V of Hegel’s Gesammelte Werke (Meiner, 1998).
Richard Bett
is Professor of Philosophy and Classics at Johns Hopkins University. His work has been especially in the area of ancient Greek skepticism. He is the author of Pyrrho, his Antecedents, and his Legacy (Oxford, 2000) and of several translations, with explanatory notes or commentary, of works of the Greek skeptic Sextus Empiricus. He has also published articles on Plato, Socrates, the Sophists, the Stoics, and Nietzsche.
Claudia D’Amico
is Professor of History of Medieval Philosophy at the University of Buenos Aires and the University of La Plata, Argentina; a Principal Researcher of the National Council for the Promotion of Science and Technology (CONICET); Director of the Program of Studies on the Reception of Platonism—Institute of Philosophy. She is a member of several scientific societies and adviser (Beirat) to the Scientific Committee of the Cusanus-Gesellschaft of Trier, Germany. Since 1998 she has directed the Círculo de Estudios Cusanos of Buenos Aires, and since 2011 has presided over the Ibero-American Society of Neoplatonism. Her area of specialization is Medieval Neoplatonism with special attention to the philosophy of Nicolas of Cusa and his sources, on which subjects she has published extensively.
Jack Davidson
is Associate Professor of Philosophy and Chair of the Department of Theology, Philosophy, and Classical Languages at Texas Lutheran University. He specializes in Early Modern philosophy and has published on Aristotle, Descartes, Locke, and Leibniz. His current research interests involve free will in the Early Modern period and its medieval antecedents.
Francisco J. Gonzalez
is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Ottawa, Canada. His publications include Dialectic and Dialogue: Plato’s Practice of Philosophical Inquiry (Northwestern, 1998) and Plato and Heidegger: A Question of Dialogue (Penn State, 2009), in addition to numerous articles in journals and collections in the areas of Ancient and Contemporary Continental philosophy. He has also edited The Third Way: New Directions in Platonic Studies (Rowman and Littlefield, 1995) and co-edited Plato and Myth: Studies on the Use and Status of Platonic Myths (Brill: 2012). Currently he is working on Heidegger’s reading of Aristotle.
Vittorio Hösle
is the Paul Kimball Professor of Arts and Letters at the University of Notre Dame and teaches in the departments of German, Philosophy and Political Science. The core of his work is the historical study and systematic appropriation of the tradition of objective idealism.
Alan Kim
teaches Greek thought at SUNY-Stony Brook. He is the author of Plato in Germany: Kant—Natorp—Heidegger (International Plato Society/Academia, 2010). He has published in Phronesis, Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy, and elsewhere, and is currently writing a book on Socratic ethics.
André Laks
retired from the University of Paris-Sorbonne, is currently teaching at the Universidad Panamericana in Mexico City and at Princeton University. His main publications bear on Plato (Médiation et coercition. Pour une lecture des Lois de Platon, 2005) and the Presocratics (Diogène d’Apollonie. Edition, traduction et commentaire des fragments et des témoignages, 22008; The Concept of Presocratic philosophy, 2018). In 2017, together with Glenn W. Most, he co-edited the nine-volume series on Early Greek Philosophy for the Loeb Classical Library, and its French equivalent, Les débuts de la philosophie. Des premiers penseurs Grecs à Socrate (Fayard).
Karl-Heinz Lembeck
is Professor for Theoretical Philosophy at the Universität Würzburg. His research focuses on the nineteenth- and twentieth-century philosophy, publishing chiefly in phenomenology and classical transcendental philosophy. His most important publications include: Philosophie als Zumutung? Ihre Rolle im Kanon der Wissenschaften (Philosophy as Imposition? Its Role in the Canon of the Sciences) (Würzburg, 2010); Einführung in die phänomenologische Philosophie (Introduction to Phenomenological Philosophy) (2nd ed., Darmstadt, 2005); Geschichte und Geschichten. Studien zur Geschichtenphänomenologie Wilhelm Schapps (History and Histories: Studies in Wilhelm Schapp’s Phenomenology of Histories) (Würzburg, 2004); Geschichtsphilosophie (Philosophy of History) (Freiburg, 2000); Platon in Marburg. Platonrezeption und Philosophiegeschichtsphilosophie bei Cohen und Natorp (Plato in Marburg: The Reception of Plato and the Philosophy of the History of Philosophy in Cohen and Natorp) (Würzburg, 1994); Gegenstand Geschichte. Geschichtswissenschaftstheorie in Husserls Phänomenologie (History as Object: The Theoretical Epistemology of History in Husserl’s Phenomenology) (Dordrecht, 1988).
François Renaud
(Ph.D. 1996, Universität Tübingen) is Professor of Philosophy at the Université de Moncton (Canada). He has published mostly on Plato and Platonic interpretation, including Hermeneutic Philosophy and Plato: Gadamer’s Response to the Philebus, co-edited with Christopher Gill (Academia, 2010), and The Platonic Alcibiades I: The Dialogue and Its Ancient Reception, co-authored with Harold Tarrant (Cambridge, 2015; paperback 2018).
Bruce Rosenstock
is Professor of Religion at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Trained as a classicist, he has published on the intersection of literary and philosophical themes in the Platonic dialogues. He is the author of Philosophy and the Jewish Questions (Fordham, 2010); Transfinite Life: Oskar Goldberg and the Vitalist Imagination (Indiana, 2017); a number of essays on Mendelssohn; as well as a translation and commentary of Mendelssohn’s Morgenstunden and An die Freunde Lessings, entitled Last Works (Illinois, 2015).
Jere O’Neill Surber
is Professor and Chair of the Department of Philosophy at the University of Denver. He studied classics, philosophy, and cultural history at the Pennsylvania State University and the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn and has been a visiting professor at a number of institutions in the US, UK, and Europe. He is the author of numerous books and articles in the areas of the history of philosophy, Kant, German Idealism, later post-Kantian movements, and modern political and cultural theory. He is probably best known for his work on the problem of language in German thought of the eighteenth to twentieth centuries.
Thomas Alexander Szlezák
is Professor Emeritus at the Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen. He is full member both of the Philologisches and the Philosophisches Seminar. As a classicist, he has published on Sophocles, Euripides, Thucydides and Homer (Homer oder die Geburt der abandländischen Dichtung, Munich, 2012). In ancient philosophy, he has worked on the three great metaphysicians, Plato, Aristotle and Plotinus, including, inter alia, a new German translation of Aristotle’s Metaphysics (2003); Reading Plato (1999); Platone e la scrittura della filosofia, 3rd ed. (1992); Platon und Aristoteles in der Nuslehre Plotins (1978).
Robert Wicks
is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Auckland, New Zealand, who specializes in Kant, 19th century philosophy, and the philosophy of art. He is the author of Hegel’s Theory of Aesthetic Judgment (1994), Nietzsche (2002), Modern French Philosophy (2003), The Routledge Philosophy Guide to Kant on Judgment (2007), Schopenhauer (2008), Schopenhauer’s The World as Will and Representation: A Reader’s Guide (2011), European Aesthetics (2013), and Kant: A Complete Introduction (2014). He is currently editing The Oxford Handbook of Schopenhauer.