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Based on public lectures given by Timothy Williamson, this book proposes a theory on the nature and methodology of philosophy and rejects the ideology of the 'linguistic turn', one of the most distinctive trends of the 20th century.

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part 1: Opening Plenary: Is Feminist Philosophy Philosophy? -- 1. Opening Remarks -- 2. Opening Remarks -- 3. Opening Remarks: Timing Is All -- 4. Discussion -- Part 2: Essence, Identity, and Feminist Philosophy -- 5. Women, Identity, and Philosophy -- 6. The Personal Is Philosophical, or Teaching a Life and Living the Truth: Philosophical Pedagogy at the Boundaries of Self -- 7. Musing as a Feminist and as a Philosopher on a Postfeminist Era -- 8. Essence against Identity -- Part 3: Engendering the Sociopolitical Body -- 9. Feminist Interpretations of Social and Political Thought -- 10. Mothers, Citizenship, and Independence: A Critique of Pure Family Values -- 11. Domestic Abuse and Locke's Liberal (Mis)Treatment of Family -- 12. Marx, Irigaray, and the Politics of Reproduction -- Part 4: Analytic Approaches and Feminist Theory -- 13. The Very Idea of Feminist Epistemology -- 14. Can There Be a Feminist Logic? -- 15. Feminism and Mental Representation: Analytic Philosophy, Cultural Studies, and Narrow Content -- 16. Replies to Hass and Golumbia -- Part 5: Feminism beyond Metaphysics? -- 17. Leaping Ahead: Feminist Theory without Metaphysics -- 18. Philosophy Abandons Woman: Gender, Orality, and Some Literate Pre-Socratics -- Notes on Contributors

This collection of essays aims to mark a place for American philosophy as it moves into the twenty-first century. Taking their cue from the work of Peirce, James, Santayana, Dewey, Mead, Buchler, and others, the contributors assess and employ philosophy as an activity taking place within experience and culture. Within the broad background of the American tradition, the essays reveal a variety of approaches to the transition in which American philosophy is currently engaged. Some of the pieces argue from an historical dialogue with the tradition, some are more polemically involved with American philosophy's current status among the contemporary philosophical "schools," and still others seek to reveal the possibilities for the future of American philosophy. In thus addressing past, present, and future, the pieces, taken together, outline a trajectory for American philosophy that reinvents its importance from a new angle of vision

800x600Normal0falsefalsefalseEN-USX-NONEX-NONEMicrosoftInternetExplorer4 In 1947 America's premier philosopher, educator, and public intellectual John Dewey purportedly lost his last manuscript on modern philosophy in the back of a taxicab. Now, sixty-five years later, Dewey's fresh and unpretentious take on the history and theory of knowledge is finally available. Editor Phillip Deen has taken on the task of editing Dewey's unfinished work, carefully compiling the fragments and multiple drafts of each chapter that he discovered in the folders of the Dewey Papers at the Special Collections Research Center at Southern Illinois University Carbondale. He has used Dewey's last known outline for the manuscript, aiming to create a finished product that faithfully represents Dewey's original intent. An introduction and editor's notes by Deen and a foreword by Larry A. Hickman, director of the Center for Dewey Studies, frame this previously lost work. In Unmodern Philosophy and Modern Philosophy, Dewey argues that modern philosophy is anything but; instead, it retains the baggage of outdated and misguided philosophical traditions and dualisms carried forward from Greek and medieval traditions. Drawing on cultural anthropology, Dewey moves past the philosophical themes of the past, instead proposing a functional model of humanity as emotional, inquiring, purposive organisms embedded in a natural and cultural environment. Dewey begins by tracing the problematic history of philosophy, demonstrating how, from the time of the Greeks to the Empiricists and Rationalists, the subject has been mired in the search for immutable absolutes outside human experience and has relied on dualisms between mind and body, theory and practice, and the material and the ideal, ultimately dividing humanity from nature. The result, he posits, is the epistemological problem of how

Intro -- Contents -- 1: The Medieval Philosophers -- 2: The Birth of Modern Philosophy: The Renaissance Period -- 3: The British Empiricists: Locke, Berkeley, and Hume -- 4: Critical Philosophy: Immanuel Kant -- 5: Idealism and Materialism: Hegel and Marx -- Notes -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Further Reading -- Picture Credits -- Index -- About the Author.