ABSTRACT
Susan Ervin-Tripp has shown us the possibility of redefining the life of the intellectual. Rather than allowing her problem domains to be shaped by traditional task definitions, she has — again and again — gone to "the world" to find problems worthy of study, and has repeatedly returned to the world to share her gained insights. That is, hers is truly "a mind in the world" — in two senses: a mind that takes inspiration from real-world, consequential human situations and that directs its intellectual activity towards changing those situations. In this brief introduction, we wish to illuminate the striking personal characteristics that reflect this theme.
