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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.

One would expect that so successful and controversial a philosophical school as analytic philosophy would have a clear platform of substantive philosophical views. However, this is not so. For at least 30 years, analytic philosophy has consisted in an increasingly loose and variable amalgam of philosophical topics, views and methods. This state of affairs has led some to claim that, despite its professional entrenchment, analytic philosophy is in a state of crisis. Analytic Philosophy: The History of an Illusion argues that this is so, and that the crisis is deeper and more longstanding than i

The work of the great philosophers of the past is well known. From Aristotle and Plato to Kant and Wittgenstein, the answers to life's biggest questions have been discussed and debated endlessly. But, as philosophy itself teaches, there is never a final solution to a philosophical problem. In the search for higher meaning, Nicholas Fearn has travelled the globe to interview the world's most distinguished thinkers, from Derek Parfit, David Wiggins and Bernard Williams, to Donald Davidson, Richard Rorty and Bernard-Henri Lévi. Philosophy is a brilliant and compelling guide to the latest answ

Contents/Table des matières -- African 'Philosophy': Deconstructive and reconstructive challenges -- African Philosophy: A brief personal history and current debate -- African philosophy in context: A reply to Hountondji's 'Que Peut la Philosophie' -- Myths, symbols and other life-worlds: The limits of empiricism -- The philosophical significance of Bantu nomenclature: A shot at contemporary African philosophy -- The concept of mind with particular reference to the language and thought of the Akans -- Alexis Kagame and Afican socio-linguistics -- Old Gods, new worlds: Some recent work in the philosophy of African traditional religion -- The idea of art in African thought -- Rationalism in the contemporary Arab world -- African philosophy: Its proto-history and future history -- Index of names -- Index of subjects.

1. Expressing / William P. Alston -- 2. On the complexity of avowals / Bruce Aune -- 3. Must every inference be either deductive or inductive? / S.F. Barker -- 4. Aesthetic problems of modern philosophy / Stanley Cavell -- 5. Seeing surfaces and physical objects / Thompson Clarke -- 6. Aesthetic essence / Marshall Cohen -- 7. Action and responsibility / Joel Feinberg -- 8. Explanations in psychology / Jerry A. Fodor -- 9. Frege's theory of number / Charles D. Parsons -- 10. The free will defence / Alvin Plantinga -- 11. What is a speech act? -- 12. Quantum physics and the philosophy of Whitehead / Abner Shimony -- 13. Predicability / Fred Sommers -- 14. Reasons and reasoning / Judith Jarvis Thomson.