Aleksandar Jokic is Professor of Philosophy and Conflict Resolution in the Graduate Program at Portland State University. He is Executive Director of the Center for Philosophical Education, founding editor of STOA - International Undergraduate Journal of Philosophy - and co-founder of the International Law and Ethics Conference Series. He is the author of Aspects of Scientific Discovery (1996), editor of the forthcoming From History to Justice (2000), and co-editor with Quentin Smith of Time, Tense, and Reference (2000) and Consciousness: New Philosophical Essays (2001).