Emeritus fellow at Balliol College, Oxford, Alan C. Montefiore has written on a wide variety of philosophical topics including moral and political philosophy, the philosophy of education, aspects of contemporary French philosophy, problems of identity, and issues connected with the description and explanation of goal-directed action. Educated at Clifton College and at Balliol, where he read philosophy, politics, and economics and took first class honors, Mr. Montefiore did graduate work in philosophy at Oxford before joining the philosophy faculty of the University of Keele as an assistant lecturer. He was appointed senior lecturer in moral and political philosophy in 1959, a post he held until returning to Balliol in 1961 as Jowett Fellow and Tutor in Philosophy. After becoming emeritus in 1994, he spent the next three years as an academic visitor in the philosophy department at the London School of Economics. Since 1997, he has served as a visiting professor at the Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy at Middlesex University. Mr. Montefiore also has held visiting appointments at McGill University, the University of Montreal, the University of Western Australia, the University of Singapore, and the University of Quebec. In addition, he has visited various universities in India at the invitation of the Ford Foundation as well visiting the Institute of Philosophy in Beijing and various philosophical groups and institutions in the Czech Republic, Slovakia, and Romania. The former chair of the board of governors of the Froebel College of Education in London (now a constituent part of the Roehampton Institute of Higher Education), he also was deputy chair of the board of directors of the Wiener Library in London, subsequently its president and now one of its two joint-presidents. Mr. Montefiore is the editor of three books, Philosophy and Personal Relations (1973), Neutrality and Objectivity: The University and Political Commitment (1975), and Philosophy in France Today (1983), and co-editor of four others, most recently (with David Vines), Integrity in the Private and Public Domains, which was published by Routledge in 1999. He is the author of A Modern Introduction to Moral Philosophy (1958).