William Rehg is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Saint Louis University. He is the translator of Jurgen Habermas's "Between Facts and Norms: Contributions to a Discourse Theory of Law and Democracy" (1996) and the coeditor of "Deliberative Democracy: Essays on Reason and Politics and Pluralism" (1997) and "The Pragmatic Turn: The Transformation of Critical Theory" (2001), all published by the MIT Press.