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Aine
Donovan is Executive Director of the Institute for the Study
of Applied and Professional Ethics at Dartmouth College. Her teaching
and research involves applied ethics, the ethical implications of the
human genome project, moral education, and just war theory. She served
as the Associate Director for the Study of Professional Military Ethics
at the United States Naval Academy and was instrumental in the development
of the applied ethics program at the academy. She holds a Ph.D. from the
University of San Francisco and received an NEH post-doctoral grant to
study the moral theory of Jean Jacques Rousseau in France. 
Dallas
Willard is a Professor in the School of Philosophy at the University
of Southern California in Los Angeles. He has taught at USC since 1965,
where he was Director of the School of Philosophy from 1982-1985. He has
also taught at the University of Wisconsin (Madison, 1960-1965), and has
held visiting appointments at UCLA (1969) and the University of Colorado
(1984). He holds the Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin. His philosophical
publications are mainly in the areas of epistemology, the philosophy of
mind and of logic, and on the philosophy of Edmund Husserl. He also lectures
and publishes in religion: Renovation of the Heart was published
in April 2002, The Divine Conspiracy was released in 1998 and
selected Christianity Today's "Book of the Year" for 1999, The
Spirit of the Disciplines appeared in 1988, and Hearing God
(1999) first appeared as In Search of Guidance in 1984 (2nd edition
1993).
David
Novak holds the J. Richard and Dorothy Shiff Chair of Jewish Studies
as Professor of the Study of Religion, Professor of Philosophy, Director
of the Jewish Studies Programme, and member of University College and the
Joint Centre for Bioethics at the University of Toronto since January 1997.
From 1989 to 1997 he was the Edgar M. Bronfman Professor of Modern Judaic
Studies at the University of Virginia. Previously he taught at Oklahoma
City University, Old Dominion University, the New School for Social Research,
the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, and Baruch College of the City
University of New York. He received his Ph.D. in philosophy from Georgetown
University. He is primarily engaged in the study of the philosophical aspects
of the Jewish legal tradition, including research and writing in political
theory. He is the author of eleven books, most recently The Election
of Israel: The Idea of the Chosen People (1995), Natural Law in
Judaism (1998) and Covenantal Rights (2000).
Peter
Kreeft taught at Villanova University from 1962-1965 and has been
at Boston College since 1965. He holds the Ph.D. from Fordham University.
He is the author of numerous books (about 43 with 12 more in progress in
2002), including: C.S. Lewis for the Third Millennium, Fundamentals
of the Faith, The Best Things in Life, Back to Virtue,
and The Unaborted Socrates.
William C. Powers, Jr. is Dean of the School of Law
at the University of Texas at Austin. His public service in chairing
the Special Investigative Committee to investigate the Enron Corporation
is well known.
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