Armen T. Marsoobian is Professor of Philosophy at Southern Connecticut State University. He is co-editor of Justus Buchler's "Metaphysics of Natural Complexes" (with Kathleen Wallace, 1990) and of "Nature's Perspectives: Prospects for Ordinal Metaphysics" (with Kathleen Wallace and Robert S. Carrington, 1991). He is editor-in-chief of the Blackwell journal "Metaphilosophy,"
John Ryder is Professor of Philosophy, Director of the Office of International Programs, and Director of the Center on Russia and the United States at The State University of New York. He is author of "Interpreting Am...