viiAcknowledgments
We would like to express our appreciation for all of the editorial, pro-
duction, and marketing staff at Northwestern University Press for their
professionalism and dedication in the production of this volume. The
project editor, Serena Brommel, shepherded the book through its vari-
ous phases, and it has been my pleasure as the book’s editor to work with
her. We also appreciated the careful work of Northwestern’s marketing
and sales department in facilitating the marketing questionnaires and
other aspects of publicity for the book.
Paul Mendelson was meticulous and thorough in copyediting the
book, which surely saved us from innumerable errors.
We also want to thank Susan Betz, acquisitions editor and editor
in chief, for guiding the manuscript through the review process and for
placing the book well in Northwestern University Press’s Topics in His-
torical Philosophy series, and we wish to thank the series editors, David
Kolb and John McCumber.
All the contributors to this collection and its editor owe a debt of
gratitude to Hilde Roos, who was, in effect, the editorial assistant for the
book throughout its various stages of production. And fi nally, we wish
to acknowledge Ms. Lisa M. Flaherty, administrative assistant to the phi-
losophy department at Loyola College in Maryland. Her coordination
and facilitation in getting the chapters to the contributors and back to
the press, on top of her many other duties, were indispensable.