MICHELLEMARDERKAMHIis an independent scholar and critic. She co-edits Aristos,
an online review of the arts, and is the author of Who Says That’s Art? A Commonsense
View of the Visual Arts(Pro Arte Books, 2014). She also co-authored What Art Is: The
Esthetic Theory of Ayn Rand(2000). Articles by her have appeared in the Wall Street
Journal, Art Education, and Arts Education Policy Review,among other publications.
She is a member of the American Society for Aesthetics, the National Art Education
Association, and the National Association of Scholars.ELIZABETHMILLÁNis Professor of Philosophy at DePaul University in Chicago. She
works on aesthetics, German Idealism/Romanticism and Latin American Philosophy.
She has published on early German Romanticism, Alexander von Humboldt, and Latin
American philosophy and is the author of Friedrich Schlegel and the Emergence of
Romantic Philosophy (2007) and co-editor (with Bärbel Frischmann) of The New Light
of German Romanticism (Schöningh Verlag, 2008). Recently she served as guest editor,
with Hugo Moreno, of a special volume on Latin American Aestheticsfor Symposium:
Canadian Journal of Continental Philosophy(Vol. 18, No. 2, Fall 2014) and with John
Smith of Goethe and German Idealism, special volume of Goethe Yearbook(2011).RAYSCOTTPERCIVALobtained a BSc degree in Psychology at The University of Bolton,
England, a Master’s in Philosophy at The University of Warwick, and a PhD in
Philosophy at The London School of Economics. He is the founder and editor of The
Karl Popper Web (1995) and was for ten years (1988 to 1998) organizer of the Annual
Conference on the Philosophy of Sir Karl Popper, both sponsored by the LSE, Dublin
City University and The Open Society Institute, New York. The sponsorship was
awarded to “a uniquely gifted individual.” He taught MA students philosophy of science
at the University of Lancaster and, from 2004 to 2012, he taught at the United Arab
Emirates University, specializing in the philosophy of mind and the philosophy of sci-
ence. He was awarded a prize for pioneering educational video podcasts at the
University. Since 1990, he has published many scholarly articles and also reviews for
Nature, New Scientist, Science Spectrum, the Times Higher EducationalSupplement,
and National Review. In 2000 Percival was listed by Baron’s Who’s Who as one of five
hundred “world leaders for the new century.” He is the author of The Myth of the Closed
Mind: Explaining Why and How People are Rational, and produces the YouTube chan-
nel: Ray Scott Percival.HENNINGTEGTMEYERis Associate Professor for Metaphysics and Philosophy of
Religion at the Hoger Instituut voor Wijsbegeerte at KU Leuven. He received his PhD
in 2004 and completed his Habilitationin 2012, both at the University of Leipzig. He
is the author of Formbezug und Weltbezug. Die Deutungsoffenheit der Kunst(2006);
Kunst(de Gruyter, 2008) and co-editor (with S. Herrmann-Sinai), of Metaphysik der
Hoffnung: Ernst Bloch als Denker des Humanen(2012) and (with S. Rödl) of
Sinnkritisches Philosophieren(2013), and author of Gott, Geist, Vernunft: Prinzipien
und Probleme der Natürlichen Theologie(2013).LOUISTORRESis an independent scholar and critic. He is co-editor ofAristos, an online
review of the arts which he founded as a print journal in 1982, and is co-author ofWhat
Art Is: The Esthetic Theory of Ayn Rand(2000). Articles by him have appeared in Art
Education, the Journal of Ayn Rand Studies, and The Encyclopedia of Libertarianism.230 About the Authors