Philip Kitcher, now emeritus John Dewey Professor of Philosophy at Columbia University, regularly taught the Columbia course on James Joyce during his teaching career. He is the author of Joyce's Kaleidoscope: An Invitation to Finnegans Wake, and the editor of Ulysses: Philosophical Perspectives (both published by Oxford University Press). He has written twenty other books on a range of topics in Philosophy, Literature and Music. Among his awards are the Prometheus Prize for expanding the frontiers of science and philosophy, the Rescher Medal for contributions to systematic philosophy, and the Hempel award for lifetime achievement in Philosophy of Science. He is a Fellow of the American Association for Arts and Sciences and of the British Academy. His books and articles have been translated into numerous languages and have won several prizes. He is an Honorary Fellow of Christ's College Cambridge.