Acknowledgments

We gratefully acknowledge the help we received from many people while working on this project. We are grateful to Hilary Gaskin for suggesting it, and for her excellent help and assistance throughout. Sandy Shapshay was a constant source of good advice and helped, in particular, in organizing our workshop at the Central Division American Philosophical Association (APA) conference in Chicago, where many of us met to trade ideas. Trinity University awarded Judith a grant to help with the development of the project. And finally, and essentially, we are grateful for the help, assistance, and support of our parents, John and Barbara Welchman, and Richard and Caroline Norman, who helped with both encouragement and childcare while we worked on this project. Unlike Schopenhauer, we very gladly and affectionately acknowledge our considerable debt to our mothers, and it is to them that this volume is dedicated.