Patrick L. Bourgeois is the William and Audrey Hutchinson Distinguished Professor at Loyola University. He is the author of several books, including Traces of A Profile of Heidegger's and Ricoeur's Hermeneutics (coauthored with Frank Schalow) and, most recently, Mead and Toward a Common Vision (coauthored with Sandra B. Rosenthal), published by SUNY Press.