Editor Patrick Goold is Associate Professor of Philosophy atVirginia Wesleyan College. His current research focuses on definingrationality. He is co-editor with Steven Emmanuel of the Blackwellanthology Modern Philosophy from Descartes to Nietzsche.Patrick is passionate about sailing, and, in addition tomaintaining a small daysailer and a cruising boat of his own,frequently crews on the boats of others. The bays and sounds ofVirginia and North Carolina are his home waters but he has sailedthe length of the East Coast of the United States from Hilton Headto Long Island Sound, made a Bermuda crossing, done club racing inBrittany, and cruised in the Lesser Antilles. Series Editor Fritz Allhoff is an Associate Professor in the Philosophydepartment at Western Michigan University, as well as a seniorresearch fellow at the Australian National University sCentre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics. In additionto editing the Philosophy for Everyone series, he is alsothe volume editor or co-editor for several titles, includingWine and Philosophy (Wiley-Blackwell, 2007), Whiskey andPhilosophy (with Marcus P. Adams, Wiley, 2009), and Food andPhilosophy (with Dave Monroe, Wiley-Blackwell,2007). His academic research interests engage variousfacets of applied ethics, ethical theory, and the history andphilosophy of science.