Joseph J. Kockelmans is Director of the Interdisciplinary Graduate Program in the Humanities and Professor of Philosophy at The Pennsylvania State University. He is the author of fifteen books in Dutch and English, particularly in the fields of phenomenology and the philosophy of science, and his Time and Space won a Gold Medal from Teyler's Tweede Genootschap in the Netherlands. After receiving his PhD in philosophy in Rome, Dr. Kockelmans did postdoctoral work in mathematics (Venlo), physics (Leyden), and philosophy (Louvain).