Fall 2005 Edition Past Contributing Subject Editors
Robert Pippin, served 1999–2005.
Robert co-edited the entries on 19th century philosophy,
focusing principally on those relating to 19th century Continental
Philosophy. He refereed the entries on Nietzsche, Kierkegaard,
Hegel, Schleiermacher, Fichte, Reinhold, Schelling, Jacobi, Bauer,
etc.. We are in his debt for the high standards he maintained
in this section.
Dan Brock, served 1999–2005.
Dan was the first editor in Applied Ethics, responsible for
the subspecialty of Biomedical Ethics. He refereed the entries on
voluntary euthanasia, parenthood, philosophy for children, philosophy
of childhood, suicide, and mental illness.
Sally Haslanger, served 1997–2005.
Sally was the founding subject editor for entries on Feminist
Philosophy. She helped to organize the entries so that they would
fall into the categories of "approaches to feminism", "feminist
interventions", and "topics in feminism". In addition, she refereed
the first group of entries on feminism that came online.
Margaret Atherton and David Owen,
served from 1999 to 2004.
Margaret and David
together laid a solid basis for the entries on 18th century
philsophy, commissioning and refereeing entries on all the major
figures. We very much appreciate their efforts and we look
forward to building on the foundation they laid.
Alan Code, served 1996–2004.
Alan was the founding subject editor for entries on Aristotle,
and as such, served as a co-editor for entries on ancient philosophy.
He commissioned and refereed the entries on Aristotle's ethics,
logic, mathematics, metaphysics, political theory, psychology,
and rhetoric.
Nicholas Jolley, served 2000–2004.
During Nick's three-year tenure, he not only commissioned but also
approved for publication a number of important articles in his subject
area; in addition to the more specialized articles, there are now
general essays on such central figures as Locke, Malebranche, and
Spinoza.
Alasdair Urquhart, served 1998–2003.
Alasdair Urquhart was the founding subject editor for entries on
Non-Classical Logic. Alasdair was diligent in refereeing such
entries as the ones on modal logic, intuitionistic logic, temporal
logic, relevance logic, paraconsistent logic, provability logic,
many-valued logic, infinitary logic, substructural logics, and
category theory.
John Burgess, served 1997–2003.
John Burgess was the founding subject editor for entries on
Classical Logic. John helped to organize the entries for this
subject, refereed the entries on classical logic, first-order model
theory, infinitary logic, model theory, set theory, and the mathematics
of Boolean algebra.
Peter Simons, served 1997–2001.
Originally a consulting editor, and then a founding subject
editor for metaphysics at the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
Peter served from April 1997 to December 2001, primarily helping to
create the list of 80 topics in Metaphysics, and offering advice and
suggestions about authors. We have benefited a lot from the time,
effort and insight he gave to the encyclopedia.
Rob Clifton (b. 1964, d. 2002), served 1997–2000.
Founding subject editor for philosophy of physics at the
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. He served from April 1997 to
December 2000, specializing in entries on quantum theory. Rob not
only organized the topics on quantum theory, but also commissioned
approximately 25 entries. Rob was one of the first philosophers to
recognize the worth of the Encyclopedia and he helped set our
exacting editorial standards. Rob's energy and example attracted the
best scholars to the Editorial Board. His love of philosophy and
commitment to rigor of thought inspired every author he commissioned
and is reflected in every article he edited.
