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Show Acknowledgements to Volume I xxiv Appendix to my dissertation. I am grateful to Rawls for persuading me of the importance of dealing with Hume straight off, and for his criticisms and encouragement throughout. I also would like to thank Marcia Baron for comments on an earlier draft of this chapter. A more recent version was published under the title, "Hume on Rational Final Ends," in Philosophy Research Archives XIV (1988-89), 193-228. Robert Audi's comments and criticisms, and that of an unidentified referee, improved that version immensely. Chapter XV is entirely my own doing, and I have no one to blame but myself. There is no way for me to express my gratitude and indebtedness to the very few individuals who provided encouragement and support during the final stretch of time in which I brought this project to completion. During two years of unpaid and extremely stressful medical leave from Wellesley College from Winter 2001 to Fall 2002, Bill Cain, Joe Feagin, Terry Irwin, Mark Kaplan, James Kodera, Ruth Barcan Marcus, Julie Matthaei, Reinhart Meyer-Kalkus, Susan Neiman, Robert Rubinowitz, Stephen Schiffer, Hedwig Saxenhuber, Georg Schöllhammer, Ann Stephens, and Joan Weiner extended themselves beyond the bounds of collegial or moral obligation by letting me know, each in their own way, the importance and value to them that I do so. Their encouragement was crucial. My debt to Ruth Barcan Marcus for her steadfast friendship is beyond measure. The research and administrative help provided, under less than ideal conditions and great generosity of spirit, by Robert Del Principe was invaluable. His patience, resourcefulness, persistence and good humor in obtaining the sources I needed under the most stressful conditions, and tolerating without complaint twelve years' worth of my unending incipient hysteria has manifested both heroism and martyrdom of the highest order. My debt to him is incalculable. Without the moral support of all of these good people this project would not have been possible. The final draft was begun under conditions of extreme personal hardship, in virtually complete solitude during the long, hot summer of 2003; and received its final form in the sheltering anonymity and safety of the city of Berlin in early 2008. I am profoundly grateful that it is there, and that I am there. For the unique opportunity to live and test the values defended in this project, I would like to thank the faculty and administration of Wellesley College; I commend this work in exile to them. For the strength, the solace and the sanctuary I have been blessed to find in reading, writing and teaching philosophy I am grateful most of all. © Adrian Piper Research Archive Foundation Berlin |
