Stewart D. Shapiro, the O’Donnell Professor of Philosophy at Ohio State University, is also a professorial fellow at St. Andrews University. His research and writing have focused primarily on the philosophy of mathematics, logic, the philosophy of logic, and the philosophy of language. A magna cum laude graduate of Case Western Reserve University, he went on to study at the State University of New York at Buffalo where he earned a master’s degree in mathematics and a Ph.D. in philosophy, with distinction, in 1978. Dr. Shapiro then joined the Ohio State philosophy faculty as an assistant professor and was appointed a full professor in 1991. He was named to his present chair five years ago. He has been a visiting lecturer at Hebrew University in Jerusalem and a visiting fellow at Center for Philosophy and Science at the University of Pittsburgh. He spent the 1996-97 academic year as a professor of philosophy at St. Andrews. Awarded fellowships by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the American Council of Learned Societies, he also has received an Ohio State Award for Scholarly Achievement and an Ohio State University Distinguished Scholar Award. Dr. Shapiro is the editor of the Journal of Symbolic Logic and serves on the editorial boards of the Notre Dame Journal of Formal Logic, Philosophia Mathematica, the Philosophical Quarterly, and Philosophical Studies. He has published some eighty articles in scholarly journals and chapters in volumes of collected works. The editor five special issues of journals and three books, including most recently the Oxford Handbook of the Philosophy of Logic and Mathematics (2005), he is also the author of Foundations without Foundationalism: A Case for Second-Order Logic (1991 and 2000), Philosophy of Mathematics: Structure and Ontology (1997 and 2000), Thinking about Mathematics: The Philosophy of Mathematics (2000), and Vagueness in Context, an account of vagueness in natural language, which was published by Oxford University Press last year. He is completing a new textbook for Oxford tentatively entitled Logic for Philosophers, which will give the basic meta-theory for first-order logic with special emphasis on the philosophical issues encountered along the way.