Nicole G. ALBERT, PhD, has published Saphisme et Décadence dans Paris fin-de-siècle (Paris 2005). A specialist in this period, she has written many articles on homosexuality in literature, gender and women writers, and has coordinated two issues of Diogène (‘Myths and Gender’ in 2004, and ‘New perspectives on Gender Studies’ in 2009). She has recently edited a collaborative volume on Renée Vivien: Renée Vivien à rebours: Etudes pour un centenaire (Orizons, 2009). She recently published a biography of the Comtesse de Castiglione (Paris 2011). Email: [email protected]

Anat BILETZKI is a professor in the philosophy department at Tel Aviv University and Albert Schweitzer Professor at Quinnipiac University. Among her publications are: Paradoxes (1996), Talking Wolves: Thomas Hobbes on the Language of Politics and the Politics of Language (1997), What is Logic? (2002), and (Over)Interpreting Wittgenstein (2003). She is active in the peace and human rights movements in Israel-Palestine and was the former chairperson of B’Tselem, the Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories. The Israeli magazine Globes included her among ‘the 50 most influential Israeli women’ in 2005, when she also appeared on the list of the ‘1000 women for the Nobel Peace Prize’.

In-Suk CHA holds the Unesco Chair on Philosophy and Democracy at Seoul National University. He is a former president of the International Council for Philosophy and Human Sciences and a member of Diogène's Editorial Board. Email: [email protected]

Ariane DJOSSOU, a lecturer in the philosophy department at the University of Abomey-Calavi and a member of Unesco's ‘Femmes philosophes’ network, is the author of several articles and essays dealing with problems of women in being part of public space in democratic societies, in Africa and particularly in Benin. Email: [email protected]

Aminata DIAW is professor of philosophy at Dakar's Cheikh Anta Diop University (UCAD) and Director of the Philosophy and Epistemology Research Centre in the doctoral school ‘Études sur l’homme et la société’. She chairs the human and social sciences sub-committee of the Senegalese National Commission for Unesco and was successively secretary-general of the Senegalese Women's Council and chair of its scientific committee. Director of Rencontres et échanges for the Dakar Biennale since 2004, she also leads the CODESRIA programme ‘Formation, bourses et subventions’. Email: [email protected]

Stéphane DOUAILLER, professor at the University of Paris-VIII, focuses his research on giving presence and legitimacy in democratic or revolutionary arenas to modes of being heterogenous to the figures of the governing and the governable and distinct from the figures of belonging to constituted human groups. His most recent book, published by Editions Horlieu, is Le Philosophe et le grand nombre (2006). Email: [email protected]

Razmig KEUCHEYAN, doctor of sociology and lecturer at the University of Paris-IV Sorbonne, is the author of Le Constructivisme: Des origines à nos jours (Paris 2007) and Hémisphère gauche: Une cartographie des nouvelles pensées critiques (Paris 2010). His research deals with the epistemology of the social sciences and history and the sociology of ideas, particularly in the political domain. Email: [email protected]

Evangelios MOUTSOPOULOS, member of the Athens Academy and honorary professor of the University of Athens, is the author of more than 50 volumes in Greek, French and English, several of them translated into various languages. He has received a number of doctorates honoris causa and started the Corpus Philosophorum Graecorum Recentiorum (1966). He founded and directed the philosophy journal Diotima and edited Philosophia, the annals of the Athens Academy's Centre for Research in Greek philosophy. Email: [email protected]

Francisco NAISHTAT, a specialist in political philosophy and the philosophy of action, is Professor in Buenos Aires University and in the University of La Plata, Argentina. He is the current Director of the xCentro de Investigaciones Filosóficas in Buenos Aires. Among his recent books: L’action et le langage (Paris 2010) and Tomar la palabra (with Federico Schuster et al., Buenos Aires 2005). Email: [email protected]

Nikolay OMELCHENKO, Professor of philosophy at Volgograd State University, is the author of more than 100 publications. Among them: An Essay on Philosophical Anthropology (Volgograd, 2005, window.edu.ru/window_catalog/files/r25892/volsu476.pdf) and The Human Being in Contemporary Philosophical Conceptions (Newcastle u/Tyne, 2009, www.c-s-p.org/Flyers/The-Human-Being-in-Contemporary-Philosophical-Conceptions1-4438-0143-7.htm). He is also chief editor of the philosophy journal /Reflections (http://www.institute-for-human-sciences.org/eng/journal/issues), published in Volgograd. Email: [email protected]

Paolo PARRINI is professor of theoretical philosophy at Florence University. His research focuses on the theory of knowledge (Knowledge and Reality. An Essay in Positive Philosophy, Dordrecht 1998; Sapere e interpretare. Per una filosofia e un’oggettività senza fondamenti, Milan 2002; Il valore della verità, forthcoming) as well as on the history of philosophical and scientific thought (L’empirismo logico, Rome 2002; Filosofia e scienza nell’Italia del Novecento, Milan 2004). Email: [email protected]

Giovanni PUGLISI is Professor of Philosophy and Rector of the IULM University in Milan. A member of the Editorial Board of Diogenes, he is also President of the Italian National Commission for Unesco. He is the author of dozens of works in Greek philosophy, aesthetics, and comparative literature.

WEI Xiaoping is director of the History of Marxist Philosophy section at the Institute of Philosophy of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. She is the author of several books and articles, including Rethinking China's Historical Transition (New York 2009), (Beijing 2005), and ‘From Principle to Context: Marx versus Nozick and Rawls on Distributive Justice’ (Rethinking Marxism, 2008). Email: [email protected]

ZHAO Tingyang is professor of philosophy at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences and the Capital Normal University, Beijing. He is the author of: (Beijing 2005), (Beijing 2005) and (Nanking 2005). Email: [email protected]