Frances Howard-Snyder is Professor of Philosophy at Western Washington University, where she has taught since 1993. She has a PhD in philosophy from Syracuse University and an MA from the University of Cape Town. She has published articles on topics in normative ethics, philosophy of religion, and metaphysics in T he Journal of Philosophy , A merican Philosophical Quarterly , and Philosophical Studies , among other places . When she is not doing philosophy, she most especially enjoys spending time with her husband, Dan, and her twins, Peter and William.