Professor Pedro A. Tabensky is based at Rhodes University in South Africa. He is the author of Happiness: Personhood, Community, Purpose (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2003) and has published several papers. Tabensky is also the editor of Judging and Understanding: Essays on Free Will, Narrative, Meaning and the Ethical Limits of Condemnation (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2006) and of The Positive Function of Evil (London: Palgrave, 2009). His main areas of interest are ethics and the meaning of life and, since moving to South Africa, he has been exploring the field of African philosophy and was the guest editor of and contributor to a recent edition on African philosophy of the South African Journal of Philosophy. He is an executive member of the International Society for African Philosophy and Studies and a member and past president of the Philosophical Society of Southern Africa. He is currently working on two monographs, one on the roots of evil and on the complex roles evil plays in human living and the other defending a new position in the free will debate. His book on evil will, among other things, explore the ideas of evil (e.g., violence and the ‘negro neurosis’) and emancipation in the work of Fanon.