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Svend Andersen is Professor of Ethics and Philosophy of Religion, and Director of the Center for Bioethics in the University of Aarhus, Denmark. He was a member of the Danish Council of Ethics 1988–93 and also President of Societas Ethica, European Society for Research in Ethics 1999–2003. She is the author of Ideal und Singularität. Über die Funktion des Gottesbegriffes in Kants theoretischer Philosophie (1983), Sprog og skabelse. Fónomenologisk sprogopfattelse i lyset af analytisk sprogfilosofi med henblik på det religiøse sprog (1989), and Bioetik (co-editor, 1999). Maria Antonaccio is Associate Professor of Religion and currently holds the NEH Chair in the Humanities at Bucknell University. She is the author of Picturing the Human: The Moral Thought of Iris Murdoch (2000), co-editor of Iris Murdoch and the Search for Human Goodness (1996), and author of numerous articles in moral theory. Mark Berkson is Assistant Professor in the Department of Religion at Hamline University. He teaches courses in the religious traditions of East and South Asia, as well as comparative religion. He has published articles on Confucian and Daoist thought and interfaith dialogue. His current scholarly work focuses on Chinese conceptions of the self and understandings of death. Don S. Browning is Alexander Campbell Professor Emeritus of Religious Ethics and the Social Sciences in the ... log in or subscribe to read full text