Notes on Contributors
Shai Biderman
teaches Philosophy and Film at Tel Aviv University and Beit-Berl College, Israel. He has co-edited The Philosophy of David Lynch (Kentucky, 2011) and Kafka and the Moving Image (Columbia, 2016) and published many articles on philosophy of film.
David Calhoun
is Professor of Philosophy at Gonzaga University. He has published widely in ancient Greek philosophy and philosophical anthropology; in the latter exploring the historical and conceptual relationships between philosophy, Christianity, and natural science. Of late his focus has been in philosophy and film, especially themes of religious faith and secularism in popular film.
Michael Forest
is Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Philosophy at Canisius College. He works in the history of philosophy, pragmatism, and aesthetics; of late, giving increased attention to environmental issues. He also directs the Urban Leadership Learning Community, guiding students from under-represented populations to be future civic leaders.
Jorge Tomás García
is Professor of Ancient Art in the Department of History and Theory of Art at the Autonomous University of Madrid; earlier he was Research Fellow at the Institute for Art History in Lisbon (2015–2017) and at the Royal Academy of Spain in Rome (2014).
Abraham Jacob Greenstine
is a Doctoral Candidate in Philosophy at Duquesne University and the Universität Kassel, and teaches philosophy at Temple University and Rowan University. Among other works, he is the co-editor of Contemporary Encounters with Ancient Metaphysics (Edinburgh, 2018).
Paul A. Kottman
is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature at the New School for Social Research. He is the author of three books: Love as Human Freedom (Stanford, 2017), Tragic Conditions in Shakespeare (Johns Hopkins, 2009), and A Politics of the Scene (Stanford, 2008), and editor of multiple collected volumes in Aesthetics. He also edits the book series, Square One: First Order Questions in the Humanities for Stanford University Press.
Danielle A. Layne
is Associate Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Graduate Program in Philosophy at Gonzaga University. She has published numerous articles on Plato and the Platonic tradition and is the co-editor of Brill’s Companion to the Reception of Plato in Antiquity as well as The Neoplatonic Socrates. Currently she is working on Otherwise Than The Binary: Feminist Rereadings of Ancient Philosophy and Culture.
David N. McNeill
is Robert Aird Chair of Humanities at Deep Springs College. He is the author of An Image of the Soul in Speech: Plato and the Problem of Socrates (Penn State, 2010) many articles that discuss ancient philosophy (especially Plato and Aristotle), Continental philosophy (especially Nietzsche), and the intersection of the two.
Erik Schmidt
is Professor of Philosophy at Gonzaga University. His work focuses on the intersection of philosophy and art. His recent work explores the philosophical value of paying attention to medium, genre, and form in the world of art and literature.
Timothy Secret
is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy and Religion. His work has focused on contemporary continental philosophy and its relation to the arts, particularly with respect to film. In The politics and pedagogy of mourning: on responsibility in eulogy (Bloomsbury, 2014) Secret discusses death, mourning and eulogy in Heidegger, Levinas, Freud and Derrida.
Adrian Switzer
is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Missouri Kansas City and Faculty Fellow in the Department of Philosophy at Colby College. The author of numerous articles and book chapters on (especially) Continental philosophy, Dr. Switzer is co-translator of Parmenides, Cosmos and Being (Marquette, 2007) and author of The Events of Paris 1968: The Art and Philosophy of Revolution (Rowman & Littlefield, forthcoming).
is Professor of Philosophy at Bard College Berlin. He is the author of three books, Pleasure in Aristotle’s Ethics (Continuum, 2008), Language, Time, and Identity in Woolf’s The Waves (Lexington, 2012), and (with Geoff Lehman) The Parthenon and Liberal Education (SUNY, 2018), as well as articles on Greek philosophy and political philosophy.