Regarding the editors, Purushottama Bilimoria is a honorary professor at Deakin University and research fellow at the University of Melbourne in Australia, a Visiting Professor and Lecturer at University of California, Berkeley and Graduate Theological Union. His areas of specialist research and publications cover classical Indian philosophy and comparative ethics; Continental thought; cross-cultural philosophy of religion, diaspora studies; bioethics, and personal law in India. He is an Editor-in-Chief of Sophia, Journal of Philosophy of Religion, Springer. He also edits a book series with Springer on Sophia: cross-cultural studies in Culture and Traditions, Recent publication is Indian Ethics I, Ashgate 2007; OUP 2008, and Sabdapramana: Word and Knowledge (Testimony) in Indian Philosophy (revised reprint), Delhi: DK Print World 2008; ‘Nietzsche as ‘Europe’s Buddha’ and Asia’s Superman, Sophia, vol 47/3 2008; Postcolonial Philosophy of Religion (with Andrew Irvine, Ken Surin et al) Springer 2009. Teaches and publishes on Hindu religious philosophies. Also works on political philosophy, pertaining to ethics of rights, theories of justice, capabilities, education and gender issues in third world, particularly South Asian, contexts.Michael Hemmingsen, McMaster University, Canada, is the editor of Human Beings and Freedom: An Interdisciplinary Perspective and Meaning and Identity: An Interdisciplinary Perspective, and author of “Unconventional Interpretations: Deleuze and the Vedanta on Spinoza,” and “Post-Modern Cosmopolitanism and Discourse Ethics.” He studied International Relations and Philosophy at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. His interests include political philosophy – particularly around public discourse and equality – human rights and metaethics. His current research is looking at how to model public discourse in a way that allows full expression to currently excluded epistemologies and in particularindigenous forms of knowledge.