Tamara Horowitz, educated at the University of Chicago and MIT, taught at Vassar College, New York University, and SUNY Purchase before joining the faculty at the University of Pittsburgh in 1985. Her interests were primarily in feminist philosophy and the epistemology of a priori knowledge. When she died in early 2000, she was the first woman chair of Pittsburgh's philosophy department. Joseph L. Camp, Jr. is former Professor of Philosophy at the University of Pittsburgh.