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106Pragmatism and the Form of ThoughtIn Joel Katzav, Dorothy Rogers & Krist Vaesen (eds.), Knowledge, Mind and Reality: An Introduction by Early Twentieth-Century American Women Philosophers, Springer. pp. 93-102. 2023.In this chapter, Grace Andrus de Laguna and Theodore de Laguna critically examine the pragmatist theory of knowledge and offer their own alternative to it.
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68Appearance and OrientationIn Joel Katzav, Dorothy Rogers & Krist Vaesen (eds.), Knowledge, Mind and Reality: An Introduction by Early Twentieth-Century American Women Philosophers, Springer. pp. 87-91. 2023.In this chapter, Grace Andrus de Laguna presents and argues for perspectivism about perception.
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IntroductionAustralasian Philosophical Review 6 (1): 1-5. 2022.1. With his lead article on Grace Mead (Andrus) de Laguna, Joel Katzav [2022a] has initiated a valuable addition to recent discussions of women in the history of philosophy. De Laguna was one of se...
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143Individuality and FreedomIn Joel Katzav, Dorothy Rogers & Krist Vaesen (eds.), Knowledge, Mind and Reality: An Introduction by Early Twentieth-Century American Women Philosophers, Springer. pp. 301-311. 2023.In this article, Ellen Bliss Talbot explores the free will/determinism debate through an examination of the notions of individual unity, uniqueness, and self-sufficiency.
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405Knowledge, Mind and Reality: An Introduction by Early Twentieth-Century American Women Philosophers (edited book)Springer. 2023.This book is the first volume featuring the work of American women philosophers in the first half of the twentieth century. It provides selected papers authored by Mary Whiton Calkins, Grace Andrus de Laguna, Grace Neal Dolson, Marjorie Glicksman Grene, Marjorie Silliman Harris, Thelma Zemo Lavine, Marie Collins Swabey, Ellen Bliss Talbot, Dorothy Walsh and Margaret Floy Washburn. The book also provides the historical and philosophical background to their work. The papers focus on the nature of …Read more
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16Bergson’s Conception of FreedomIn Joel Katzav, Dorothy Rogers & Krist Vaesen (eds.), Knowledge, Mind and Reality: An Introduction by Early Twentieth-Century American Women Philosophers, Springer. pp. 313-321. 2023.In this article, Marjorie Silliman Harris offers a critical reading of Henri Bergson’s view of freedom as a creative act by the fundamental self.
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104Mr. G. E. Moore’s Discussion of Sense DataIn Joel Katzav, Dorothy Rogers & Krist Vaesen (eds.), Knowledge, Mind and Reality: An Introduction by Early Twentieth-Century American Women Philosophers, Springer. pp. 81-86. 2023.In this chapter, Mary Collins Swabey critiques G. E. Moore's discussion of sense data.
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365American women philosophers: institutions, background and thoughtIn Joel Katzav, Dorothy Rogers & Krist Vaesen (eds.), Knowledge, Mind and Reality: An Introduction by Early Twentieth-Century American Women Philosophers, Springer. pp. 1-20. 2023.This chapter provides the background to the American women philosophers’ works that are introduced and collected in Knowledge, Mind and Reality: An Introduction by Early Twentieth-Century American Women Philosophers. We describe the institutional context which made these works possible and their methodological and theoretical background. We also provide biographies for their authors.
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7Women philosophersBloomsbury Academic. 2021.This book traces the career development and influence on American intellectual life of the first twenty women to earn a PhD in philosophy in the United States. Rogers explores the factors that led these women to pursue careers in academic philosophy, examines the ideas they developed, and evaluates the impact they had on the academic and social worlds they inhabited. This volume investigates not only the success stories of such women as Eliza Ritchie, Julia Gulliver, and Christine Ladd-Franklin,…Read more
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18Before "Care": Marietta Kies, Lucia Ames Mead, and Feminist Political TheoryHypatia 19 (2): 105-117. 2004.Marietta Kies and Lucia Ames Mead were two late nineteenth-century thinkers who anticipated the late twentieth-century feminist "ethic of care." Kies drew on Hegel's philosophy to develop a political theory of altruism. Ames Mead adopted Kant's theory of peace and established a pacifist theory based on international cooperation. Both Kies and Mead insisted that the prototypically "feminine" ideals they espoused are rational, not emotional, responses to modern political life, and are essential to…Read more
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William Torrey Harris, ed., The Journal of Speculative Philosophy, 1867-1893, 22 vols., with a new introduction by James A. Good (review)Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 40 (3): 547-553. 2004.
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14Before "Care": Marietta Kies, Lucia Ames Mead, and Feminist Political TheoryHypatia 19 (2): 105-117. 2004.
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"Making Hegel Talk English": America's First Women IdealistsDissertation, Boston University. 1998.This study is the first examination of the works and lives of the women of the St. Louis philosophical movement and Concord School of Philosophy , two branches of the same idealist movement in America that introduced German thinkers to the American reading public, particularly G. W. F. Hegel. The St. Louis branch of the movement focused primarily on education as a civilizing force in society. The concepts of "self-activity" and self-estrangement were seen as integral to the educative process and…Read more
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12America's First Women Philosophers: Transplanting Hegel, 1860-1925Continuum. 2005.The American idealist movement started in St. Louis, Missouri in 1858, becoming more influential as women joined and influenced its development. Susan Elizabeth Blow was well known as an educator and pedagogical theorist who founded the first public kindergarten program in America (1873-1884). Anna C. Brackett was a feminist and pedagogical theorist and the first female principal of a secondary school (St. Louis Normal School, 1863-72). Grace C. Bibb was a feminist literary critic and the first …Read more
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34Before Pragmatism: The Practical Idealism of Susan E. Blow (1843-1916)Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 36 (4). 2000.
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54The Other Philosophy Club: America's First Academic Women PhilosophersHypatia 24 (2): 164--185. 2009.Recent research on women philosophers has led to more discussion of the merits of many previously forgotten women in the past several years. Yet due to the fact that a thinker’s significance and influence are historical phenomena, women remain relatively absent in âmainstreamâ discussions of philosophy. This paper focuses on several successful academic women in American philosophy and takes notice of how they succeeded in their own era. Special attention is given to three important academic …Read more
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259Before "care": Marietta kies, Lucia Ames Mead, and feminist political theoryHypatia 19 (2): 105-117. 2004.: Marietta Kies and Lucia Ames Mead were two late nineteenth-century thinkers who anticipated the late twentieth-century feminist "ethic of care." Kies drew on Hegel's philosophy to develop a political theory of altruism. Ames Mead adopted Kant's theory of peace and established a pacifist theory based on international cooperation. Both Kies and Mead insisted that the prototypically "feminine" ideals they espoused are rational, not emotional, responses to modern political life, and are essential …Read more
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47Hegel, Women, and Hegelian Women on Matters of Public and PrivateStudies in Philosophy and Education 18 (4): 235-255. 1999.This paper introduces America's first women Idealists and discusses their appropriation and reconfiguration of Hegel's public/private distinction. Through their philosophies of education two of these women, Susan E. Blow (1843--1916) and Anna C. Brackett (1836--1911), legitimized women's active involvement in public life. A third, Marietta Kies (1853--1899), put forth a political theory of altruism. Her theory anticipates feminist critiques of male-centered political theory and has important imp…Read more
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32Before “Care”: Marietta Kies, Lucia Ames Mead, and Feminist Political TheoryHypatia 19 (2): 105-117. 2004.Marietta Kies and Lucia Ames Mead were two late nineteenth-century thinkers who anticipated the late twentieth-century feminist "ethic of care." Kies drew on Hegel's philosophy to develop a political theory of altruism. Ames Mead adopted Kant's theory of peace and established a pacifist theory based on international cooperation. Both Kies and Mead insisted that the prototypically "feminine" ideals they espoused are rational, not emotional, responses to modern political life, and are essential to…Read more
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