TOMIS KAPITAN is a Professor of Philosophy at Northern Illinois University, USA. He has also taught at Indiana State University, Birzeit University, East Carolina University, The American University of Beirut, and Bogazici University in Istanbul. He has published articles in metaphysics, philosophy of language, philosophy of logic, and international ethics. He is the editor of Philosophical Perspectives on the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Archaeology, History, and Culture in Palestine and the Near East, (and the co-editor of The Phenomeno-Logic of the I ).