Hollan Distinguished Visitors* -- 2001-2002

Stephen Schiffer, Professor, Department of Philosophy, New York Univeristy. He works in philosophy of language, philosophy of mind, and metaphysics.  Schiffer is the author of Meaning and Remnants of Meaning , as well as a broad range of articles.

Hollan Distinguished Visitors* -- 2000-2001

Tim Maudlin, Professor of Philosophy,  Rutgers University. He specializes in philosophy of physics, philosophy of science, metaphysics.    He is the author of Quantum Non-Locality and Relativity: Metaphysical Intimations of Modern Physics, as well as of numerous articles conerning the philosophy of science.

Jonathan Bennett, Professor Emeritus, Syracuse University. His philosophical publications include Rationality; Kant's Analytic; Locke,
Berkeley, Hume: Central Themes; Kant's Dialectic; Linguistic Behaviour; the co-editing and translation of Leibniz's Nouveaux Essais; A Study of Spinoza's Ethics; Events and Their Names; and The Act Itself;  There are over ninety journal articles (many anthologized) and numerous reviews.

Jonathan Dancy, Professor, University of Reading.  Professor Dancy is the author of An Introduction to Contemporary Epistemology, Moral Reasons, Berkeley: An Introduction, and Practical Reality, as well as articles on many philosophical subjects. He is the editor of Perceptual Knowledge and Reading Parfit, and co-editor of A Companion to Epistemology. He is currently working on practical reasons.

Michael Smith, Professor, The Australian National University. Smith's primary research interests include ethics, moral psychology, philosophy of mind, political philosophy and philosophy of law. He is the author of The Moral Problem, and editor of Meta-Ethics. His Selected Essays on Moral Psychology and Meta-Ethics  is forthcoming.