ANDREW BERNSTEIN, The Ayn Rand Institute, 4640 Admiralty Way, Suite 406, Marina del Rey, California 90292, holds a Ph.D. in philosophy from the Graduate School of the City University of New York. He teaches philosophy at Pace University, the State University of New York at Purchase, and formerly at Marymount College in Tarrytown, New York---which presented him its  "Outstanding Teacher" award in 1995. He has also lectured at Hunter College, Long Island University, the New School for Social Research, and has given addresses at Harvard, Stanford, Northwestern, Chicago, Michigan, Wisconsin, Columbia, and the United States Military Academy at West Point. His first novel, Heart of a Pagan, was published in Fall 2001 by The Paper Tiger. Dr. Bernstein's articles have also appeared in Ideas on Liberty, The Intellectual Activist, ART Ideas, The Chicago Tribune, The Houston Chronicle, The Baltimore Sun, and The Atlanta Constitution. He is also the author of CliffsNotes for three Ayn Rand titles: Anthem, The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged, and of the forthcoming Capitalist Manifesto, an examination of the historical success of capitalism and of the philosophical and economic principles that explain it.

ROGER E. BISSELL, a professional musician and graduate student in psychology at California Coast University, email:<REBissell@aol.com>, url:<http://members.aol.com/REBissell/index.html>, is a writer on psychology and philosophy. His work has appeared in a number of publications, including Reason Papers, Objectivity, Journal of Consciousness Studies, Vera Lex, and ART Ideas.

ROBERT L. CAMPBELL, Professor, Department of Psychology, Clemson University, Brackett Hall 410A, Clemson, South Carolina 29634-1511, email: <campber@clemson.edu>, url:  <http://hubcap.clemson.edu/~campber/index.html>, has various research interests, including theories of human development, the development of moral personality, and the nature of free will, as well as the historical evolution of moral psychology.

STEPHEN COX, Professor of Literature and Director of the Humanities Program at the University of California, San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, California 92093-0306, email:  <sdcox@ucsd.edu>, is the author of The Stranger Within Thee (University of Pittsburgh Press), Love and Logic: The Evolution of Blake's Thought (University of Michigan Press), The Titanic Story (Open Court), and the biographical introduction to Isabel Paterson's The God of the Machine (Transaction).

MICHAEL HUEMER, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Philosophy Department, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado 80309-0232, email:  <owl1@free-market.net>, url:  <http://home.sprynet.com/~owl1/>, received his Ph.D. from Rutgers University in 1998. His primary research is in the areas of epistemology and meta-ethics. He is the author of Skepticism and the Veil of Perception (Rowman & Littlefield, 2001).

JONATHAN JACOBS, Professor of Philosophy and Chair, Department of Philosophy and Religion, Colgate University, Hamilton, New York 13346, email: <Jjacobs@mail.colgate.edu>, has been a Visiting Professor at the University of Edinburgh and a Visiting Fellow at the Centre for Philosophy and Public Affairs at the University of St. Andrews. He is the author of numerous articles and of such books as Practical Realism and Moral Psychology (Georgetown, 1995), A Philosopher's Compass (Harcourt, 2001), and Choosing Character: Responsibility for Virtue and Vice (Cornell, 2001).

RODERICK T. LONG, Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy, 6080 Haley Center, Auburn University, Auburn AL 36849, email: <longrob@auburn.edu>, url:  <http://www.praxeology.net>, A.B. Harvard 1985, Ph.D. Cornell 1992, is the author of Reason and Value: Aristotle versus Rand (The Objectivist Center, 2000), and various articles on ethics, libertarianism, and Greek philosophy. Two book-length projects are currently in preparation: Aristotle on Fate and Freedom (an interpretation of Aristotle's theory of free will) and Wittgenstein, Austrian Economics, and the Logic of Action: Praxeological Investigations (a defense of a priori methodology in social science). An early draft of the latter work is available at:  <http://www.mises.org/journals/scholar/long.pdf>.

JOSEPH MAURONE, email:  <spaceplayer206@aol.com>, is an independent scholar, musician, and composer living in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. His primary research interests include music and literary theory, psychology, and popular culture.  His musical compositions are featured at: <http://spaceplayer.tripod.com/>.

BRYAN REGISTER, Department of Philosophy at the University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas 78712-1180, email: <bregister@mail.utexas.edu>, is a graduate student in the Special Program in Continental Philosophy of UT-Austin.

CHRIS MATTHEW SCIABARRA, Visiting Scholar, Department of Politics, New York University, 726 Broadway, 7th floor, New York, New York 10003-6806, email:  <chris.sciabarra@nyu.edu>; url:  <http://www.nyu.edu/projects/sciabarra>, is the author of the "Dialectics and Liberty Trilogy,"  which includes Marx, Hayek, and Utopia (State University of New York Press, 1995), Ayn Rand: The Russian Radical (Penn State Press, 1995), and Total Freedom: Toward a Dialectical Libertarianism (Penn State Press, 2000). He is also co-editor, with Mimi Reisel Gladstein, of Feminist Interpretations of Ayn Rand (Penn State Press, 1999).

SLAVOJ ZIZEK, Kulturwissenschaftliches Institut, Goethestrasse 31, 45128 Essen, Germany, email: <szizek@yahoo.com>, earned his Doctor of Arts (Philosophy, 1981) at the Department of Philosophy, Faculty of Arts, Ljubljana; Doctor of Arts (psychoanalysis, 1985) at the Université Paris-VIII. From April 2000, he has directed a research group at the Kulturwissenschaftliches Institut, Essen. Politically active in the alternative movement in Slovenia during the 1980s, he was a candidate for the presidency of the Republic of Slovenia in the first multi-party elections in 1990. He was also Ambassador of Science of the Republic of Slovenia in 1991. From 1997, he has regularly contributed to the feuilletons of German newspapers (Die Zeit, Sueddeutsche Zeitung, Frankfurter Rundschau). His recent publications include The Ticklish Subject (London: Verso, 1999); The Fragile Absolute (London: Verso, 2000); Did Somebody Say Totalitarianism? (London: Verso, 2001); and On Belief (London: Routledge, 2001).

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