Notes on Contributors

Beatriz Contreras Tasso

is an Associate Professor at the Catholic University of Chile where she teaches since 2007. She obtained her Undergraduate and Master degree in Philosophy from the same University and she holds there a Ph.D. in Philosophy. Her doctoral thesis dealt with the concept of practical wisdom in the ethics of Paul Ricoeur, and was awarded with the Excelencia en Tesis Doctoral 2011 prize by the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. Contreras Tasso published her thesis with the publishing house Plaza y Valdés in 2012. Her research focus is on hermeneutics and ontology, and she lectures diverse courses in philosophy, including philosophical anthropology and ethics.

Arthur Cools

is Professor of Contemporary Philosophy and Aesthetics at the University of Antwerp. He is the author of Langage et subjectivité. Vers une approche du différend entre Maurice Blanchot et Emmanuel Levinas (2007), and has co-edited The Locus of Tragedy (2008), Metaphors in Modern and Contemporary Philosophy (2013), Debating Levinas’ Legacy (2015) and Kafka and the Universal (2016). He publishes in the field of critical theory, philosophy of culture, contemporary French phenomenology, and the interplay between philosophy and literature.

Geoffrey Dierckxsens

is head of the Interdisciplinary Research Lab for Bioethics (IRLaB) at the Institute of Philosophy of the Czech Academy of Sciences (cas) in Prague. He worked as an associated researcher at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (ehess) in Paris. Geoffrey Dierckxsens specializes in French phenomenology and hermeneutics, in particular in their relations to contemporary analytical philosophy (moral theory and enactivism), as well as bioethics. His publications include “Imagination, Narrativity and Embodied Cognition” (Philosophy South, 2018), The Animal Inside. Essays at the Intersection of Philosophical Anthropology and Animal Studies (Rowman and Littlefield, 2017), “Responsibility and the Physical Body. Paul Ricoeur on Analytical Philosophy of Language, Cognitive Science, and the Task of Phenomenological Hermeneutics” (Philosophy Today, 2017), and Paul Ricoeur’s Moral Anthropology: Singularity, Responsibility and Justice (Lexington Books, 2017). He is also a guest editor of a special issue of Topoi on (bio-)ethical dimensions of enactive cognition (forthcoming).

Morny Joy

is a Faculty Professor in the Department of Classics and Religion, University of Calgary, Canada (1989–2019). BA University of Sydney; MA University of Ottawa, Canada; PhD McGill University, Montreal, Canada (1981). Morny Joy also spent a two-year postdoctoral fellowship studying with Paul Ricoeur at the University of Chicago. (1983–85). In recent years, she has published two well-received edited books, Continental Philosophy and Philosophy of Religion (Springer 2011); Women, Religion, and the Gift: An Abundance of Riches (Springer 2017). Her latest volume, also an edited book, Women, Rights, and Religions, will be published by Equinox Press in January, 2020.

Feriel Kandil

is Associate Professor at the Aix-Marseille University and head of the department of philosophical economics at the Aix-Marseille School of Economics. Her research focuses on practical rationality, social justice and public actions, from both a philosophical and the socio-economic perspective. Her publications include Fondements de la Justice, 2012, puf, “Justice sociale et durabilité environnementale,” in Zarca (ed.) La démocratie face aux enjeux environnementaux. La transition écologique, Mimesis, Paris, 2017, “La justice est aveugle: Rawls, Harsanyi et le voile d’ignorance,” Revue Economique, vol.65, n 1, janvier 2014, “Idéale ou comparative: quelle approche pour la justice sociale ?,” Revue Economique, 61,2, p. 213–235, 2010, “Economic efficiency and Social justice: a prudential approach for public actions,” in Wagner P., Joerges C., & Strath B., Economy as a Polity, Glasshousse Press, London, p.203–222, 2005.

Sébastien Roman

is currently associate professor of philosophy at the École Nationale Supérieure of Lyon, and a member of the Triangle umr 5206 Laboratory. His research focuses on Machiavelli and on the status of conflict in contemporary democracies, with a special emphasis on the concepts of ideology and utopia. His publications include Nous, Machiavel et la démocratie (Paris, cnrs, 2017), “Hétérotopie et utopie pratique: comparaison entre Foucault et Ricoeur,” Le Philosophoire, 44 (2015), “Consensus et utopie. Lecture de Habermas par Paul Ricoeur,” Esprit, (numéro d’août/septembre 2015), “Justice sociale et luttes pour la reconnaissance: la question de l’agapè,” Etudes Ricoeuriennes, volume 6, n 2.

Roger W. H. Savage

is a professor at the University of California, Los Angeles. His publications include Music, Time, and Its Other: Aesthetic Reflections on Finitude, Temporality, and Alterity, Hermeneutics and Music Criticism, and the edited volume Paul Ricoeur in the Age of Hermeneutical Reason: Poetics, Praxis and Critique. He was a Fulbright Scholar and a Moore Institute Visiting Fellow at the National University of Ireland, Galway. He is a past president of the Society for Ricoeur Studies.

George H. Taylor

is a professor of law at the University of Pittsburgh in the United States. He specializes in legal hermeneutics and hermeneutics more generally. He studied as a graduate student under Ricoeur, and he is the editor of Ricoeur’s Lectures on Ideology and Utopia and co-editor of Ricoeur’s forthcoming Lectures on Imagination. With Francis J. Mootz, he also co-edited Gadamer and Ricoeur: Critical Horizons for Contemporary Hermeneutics. He has written on Ricoeur extensively.

Maria Cristina Clorinda Vendra

currently works as a Post-doctoral researcher at the Institute of Philosophy of the Czech Academy of Sciences (cas) in Prague. She is an associated member of the Centre d’Etudes des Mouvements Sociaux (cems) at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (ehess) in Paris. She obtained her Ph.D in Philosophy at the ehess and at the University “Gabriele D’Annunzio,” Chieti (Italy). She is an active member of the Society for Ricoeur Studies and the Fonds Ricoeur, and the author of diverse articles on Ricoeur’s thought. She moreover has participated in numerous international conferences and seminars in Europe (Paris, Lisbon, Barcelona, Krakow, Antwerp), in the usa (Los Angeles, Boston, Chicago), and in Canada (Montreal).

Ernst Wolff

is professor of philosophy at the KU Leuven in Belgium and extraordinary professor in the philosophy department of the University of Pretoria in South Africa. His research is mainly in social and political philosophy, action theory, hermeneutics and African philosophy. His publications include De l’éthique à la justice (Springer, 2007) and Political responsibility for a globalised world (Transcript, 2011).