Bernard Bosanquet and the Legacy of British Idealism
William
Sweet is Professor of Philosophy at St
Francis Xavier University (Nova Scotia, Canada). He is the author of Idealism and Rights (1997) and Anti-foundationalism, Faith, and Community
(2001). He has edited several collections of scholarly essays, including Idealism, Metaphysics, and Community
(2001), The Bases of Ethics (2000),
and God and Argument (1999). He has
also published an edition of The Philosophical Theory of the State and Related Essays by Bernard Bosanquet
(with Gerald F. Gaus, 2001), and edited The
Collected Works of Bernard Bosanquet, 20 volumes (1999).
James
Allard is Professor
of Philosophy at Montana State University-Bozeman, and the author or editor of
several scholarly studies on F.H. Bradley, including F. H. Bradley: Writings on Logic and Metaphysics (with Guy Stock,
1994). He has also published in a number of journals, including Bradley Studies, and International Studies in Philosophy.
Leslie Armour is Research
Professor of Philosophy at the Dominican College of Philosophy and Theology
(Ottawa), and Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at the University of Ottawa. He
is author of "Infini Rien":
Pascal's Wager and the Human Paradox (1993), Being and Idea: Developments of Some Themes in Spinoza and Hegel
(1992); The Idea of Canada and the Crisis
of Community (1981), The Faces of
Reason: an essay on philosophy and culture in English Canada, 1850‑1950 (with Elizabeth Trott, 1981), The Conceptualization of the Inner Life (with
Edward T. Bartlett, 1980), Logic and
Reality: an Investigation into the Idea of a Dialectical System (1972); The Concept of Truth (1969), The Rational and the Real: an Essay in
Metaphysics (1962). He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.
James
Connelly is Professor of Philosophy in
the School of Human Sciences at the Southampton Institute of Higher Education,
England. He has authored several studies, and edited a number of volumes, on
the Philosophy of R.G.Collingwood (Interdisciplinary
Perspectives on R. G. Collingwood, with
David Boucher and Tariq Modood, 19**), on Environmental Politics (Politics and the
Environment. from theory to practice, with
Graham Smith, 1999), and on social policy (Citizens, charters and consumers, 1993). He is on the Board of Directors of the
Collingwood Society.
Phillip
Ferreira is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Kutztown University in
Pennsylvania. He is the author of Bradley
and the Structure of Knowledge (1999), and has published in Bradley Studies. He specializes in
Modern Philosophy, 19th Century Philosophy, and Idealism.
Philip
MacEwen is a graduate of
the Royal Conservatory of Music in cello and the University of Toronto in
philosophy. He has done graduate studies in religious studies at Westminster
Theological Seminary, in philosophy at York University, and in music at the
University of London. Currently, he teaches philosophy and humanities at York
University and is president of a music company, Simply Strings. He has
published in the areas of environmental ethics, philosophy of religion, and the
history of modern philosophy. He is the Editor of Ethics, Metaphysics and Religion in the Thought of F. H. Bradley
(1996).
Peter
Nicholson was, until his recent
retirement, Reader in the Department of Politics at the University of York,
England. He is the author of The Political Philosophy of the British
Idealists (1990), Editor of The
Collected Works of T.H. Green (1997), and of The Collected Works of D. G. Ritchie (1998), and a co-editor of Toleration.
Philosophy and Practice (with John Horton,
1992).
T.L.S.
Sprigge is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at the University of Edinburgh and is author of Santayana: An Examination of his Philosophy (1974; revised 1995), James and Bradley: American Truth and
British Reality (1993), The Rational
Foundations of Ethics (1987), Theories
of Existence (1984), The Vindication
of Absolute Idealism (1983), and Facts,
Words and Beliefs (1970). His principal research interests include Spinoza,
Royce, Hegel on religion, Pascal, Whitehead, Bradley, Bosanquet, and T.H.
Green. He has an amateur interest in Indian thought, and has recently completed a book on The God of Metaphysics.
Kevin
Sullivan teaches philosophy at Heritage
College, Hull (Québec), Canada. He has published in Idealism, Metaphysics, and Community (2001). His PhD in Philosophy
was entitled Release and Realization: A
Study of the Concept of Spiritual Liberation in the Philosophy of Sarvepalli
Radhakrishnan (University of Ottawa, 1993).
Elizabeth
Trott is Professor of Philosophy at the Ryerson
Polytechnical University in Toronto, Canada. She is co-author (with Leslie
Armour) of The Faces of Reason: An Essay
on Philosophy and Culture in English Canada, 1850‑1950 (1981), co-editor
(with Leslie Armour) of The Industrial
Kingdom Of God by John Clark Murray (1981), and has published in The Journal of Aesthetics and Education,
Dialogue, Philosophy and Culture (ed. Venant Cauchy), Philosophy after F.H. Bradley (ed. James Bradley, 1996) and The Canadian Encyclopedia.
Andrew
Vincent is Professor of Political Theory at the University of
Sheffield; he was formerly Senior Fellow at the Research School of the Social
Sciences, Australian National University, and Professor of Political Theory at
Cardiff University, where he was also Co-Director of the Collingwood and
British Idealism Centre. He is Associate Editor of the Journal of Political Ideologies, and has published widely on
contemporary political philosophy. His recent books include British Idealism and Political Theory (with
David Boucher, 2000); Political Theory:
Tradition and Diversity (1997), Theories
of the State (1987; 1994 reprint); Modern
Political Ideologies (2nd edition 1995); A Radical Hegelian: The Political and Social Philosophy of Henry Jones (with
David Boucher, 1993) and Philosophy,
Politics and Citizenship: The Life and Thought of the British Idealists (co-author)
(1984)
Fred
Wilson is Professor of
Philosophy at the University of Toronto. He graduated from McMaster University
in theoretical physics, and then went on to study philosophy at the University
of Iowa, where he took his PhD in 1965. He has been teaching at the University
of Toronto since then. He is the author of The
Logic and Methodology of Science in Early Modern Thought. Seven Studies
(1999); Hume's Defence of Causal
Inference (1997); Empiricism and
Darwin's Science (1991); Psychological
Analysis and the Philosophy of John Stuart Mill (1990); Laws and Other Worlds : A Humean Account of
Laws and Counterfactuals (1987); Explanation,
Causation and Deduction (1985). He has published a number of papers on
British idealism and its relations to empricism. Most recent has been "The
Significance for Psychology of Bradley's Humean View of the Self," Bradley Studies (1999). Professor Wilson
was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 1994.