NOTES ON THE CONTRIBUTORSenology, German idealism, ancient philosophy (specifi cally Plato), and animal
ethics.
Christopher P. Long is an associate professor of philosophy at Pennsylvania
State University. He is the author of The Ethics of Ontology: Rethinking an Aristo-
telian Legacy and several articles on Plato, Aristotle, and other areas of Greek
philosophy.
Mark Moes is an associate professor of philosophy at Grand Valley State Univer-
sity in Allendale, Michigan, where he teaches ancient philosophy and philoso-
phy of history. He was trained in ancient philosophy and philosophy of mind
under Kenneth Sayre at the University of Notre Dame. He is the author of Plato’s
Dialogue Form and the Care of the Soul and has published several articles on Plato.
He is working on a book-length study of Plato’s Republic, tentatively entitled The
Medicinal Rhetoric of Plato’s Republic.
Gary Alan Scott is an associate professor of philosophy at Loyola College in
Maryland. He is the editor of Does Socrates Have a Method? Rethinking the Elenchus
in Plato’s Dialogues and Beyond and the author of Plato’s Socrates as Educator. He
also coauthored (with William A. Welton) the forthcoming Erotic Wisdom: Phi-
losophy and Intermediacy in Plato’s Symposium.
Nicholas D. Smith is the James F. Miller Professor of Humanities at Lewis and
Clark College, where he has been since 1999. He is the author, coauthor, editor,
or coeditor of over fi fteen books, including Socrates on Trial, Plato’s Socrates, The
Philosophy of Socrates, and The Trial of Socrates, all with Thomas C. Brickhouse, as
well a s more t han eight y jour nal art icles and numerous t ranslat ions and rev iews
on various topics in ancient philosophy, ancient literature, and epistemology.
Martha Kendal Woodruff is an a ssociate professor of philosophy at Middlebur y
College. She received her Ph. D. from Yale University; she also studied for two
years at Universität-Freiburg with a research grant from DA AD (German Aca-
demic Exchange Service). Her main areas of interest include ancient Greek and
modern continental philosophy. She has published articles and book chapters
on Plato, Aristotle, Nietzsche, and Heidegger. She is currently fi nishing a book
manuscript, entitled The Pathos of Thought: Aristotle and Heidegger on Mood, Poetry,
and Philosophy.