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Thomas NagelProfessor of Philosophy and Law at New York University. Among his books are The View From Nowhere, Equality and Partiality, and most recently, The Last Word.Rom HarréEmeritus Fellow of Linacre College Oxford and Professor of Psychology at Georgetown University, Washington, D.C. His published work includes studies in the philosophy of the physical sciences, such as Varieties of Realism (1986) and in the philosophy of psychology, such as The Singular Self (1998).Clifford WilliamsTeaches philosophy at Trinity College in Illinois. Recent articles on time have appeared in The Philosophical Quarterly, Australasian Journal of Philosophy, and The Southern Journal of Philosophy.Gerald VisionProfessor of Philosophy, Temple University. His most recent book is Problems of Vision: Rethinking the Causal Theory of Perception.Lisa Van AlstyneGraduate student at the University of Pittsburgh.John R. GibbinsPrincipal Lecturer at the University of Teeside and a member of Wolfson College, Cambridge. He has degrees from London, Durham and Newcastle Universities. He publishes in the fields of Victorian Philosophy and postmodernism.