Catherine Elgin is professor of the philosophy of education at Harvard University's Graduate School of Education, and an associate of the Edmund J. Safra Foundation Center for Ethics and the Professions at Harvard.  She received her B.A. from Vassar College and her Ph.D. from Brandeis University.  Her scholarly work focuses on issues at the intersection of epistemology, the philosophy of art, and the philosophy of science.  She is the author of Considered Judgment (Princeton, 1996), Between the Absolute and the Arbitrary (Cornell, 1997), With Reference to Reference (Hackett, 1983), and co-author (with Nelson Goodman) of Reconceptions in Philosophy and Other Arts and Sciences (Hackett, 1988).  She is editor of The Philosophy of Nelson Goodman (Garland, 1997), and co-editor (with Jonathan E. Adler) of Philosophical Inquiry (Hackett, 2009).  She is the recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment of the Humanities, the American Council of Learned Societies, the John Dewey Foundation,  the Spencer Foundation, the Andrew Mellon Foundation and the Bunting Institute.  Her current work focuses on the commonalities in the ways the arts and the sciences advance understanding.