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139Response to Commentary on ‘Grace de Laguna’s Analytic and Speculative Philosophy’Australasian Philosophical Review 6 (1): 98-109. 2022.I respond to the commentaries on 'Grace de Laguna's Analytic and Speculative Philosophy' offered by Peter Olen [2023], Trevor Pearce, Anthony Fisher, Marguerite La Caze and Frederique Janssen-Lauret. In doing so, I bring out some of the value of de Laguna’s perspectivism and of her treatment of modality. I also further clarify how she departs from pragmatism and from analytic philosophy, and how she relates to continental philosophy.
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208Revisiting Grace de Laguna’s critiques of analytic philosophy and of pragmatismAsian Journal of Philosophy 3 (1): 1-21. 2024.I revisit my paper, ‘Grace de Laguna’s 1909 Critique of Analytic Philosophy’ and respond to the commentary on it. I respond to James Chase and Jack Reynolds by further analysing the difference between speculative philosophy as de Laguna conceived of it and analytic philosophy, by clarifying how her critique of analytic philosophy remains relevant to some of its more speculative forms, and by explaining what justifies the criticism of established opinion that goes along with her rejection of anal…Read more
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174Epistemic possibilities in climate science: lessons from some recent research in the context of discoveryEuropean Journal for Philosophy of Science 13 (4): 1-21. 2023.A number of authors, including me, have argued that the output of our most complex climate models, that is, of global climate models and Earth system models, should be assessed possibilistically. Worries about the viability of doing so have also been expressed. I examine the assessment of the output of relatively simple climate models in the context of discovery and point out that this assessment is of epistemic possibilities. At the same time, I show that the concept of epistemic possibility us…Read more
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288Speculative Philosophy of Science vs. Logical Positivism: Preliminary RoundIn Sander Verhaegh (ed.), American Philosophy and the Intellectual Migration: Pragmatism, Logical Empiricism, Phenomenology, Critical Theory, De Gruyter. forthcoming.I outline the theoretical framework of, and three research programs within American speculative philosophy of science during the period 1900-1931. One program applies verificationism to research in psychology, one investigates the methodology of research programs, and one analyses scientific explanation and other scientific concepts. The primary sources for my outline are works by Morris Raphael Cohen, Grace Andrus de Laguna, Theodore de Laguna, Edgar Arthur Singer Jr., Harold Robert Smart, and …Read more
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292To what extent can institutional control explain the dominance of analytic philosophy?Asian Journal of Philosophy 2 (45): 1-14. 2023.Katzav and Vaesen have argued that control by analytic philosophers of key journals, philosophy departments and at least one funding body plays a substantial role in explaining the emergence of analytic philosophy into dominance in the Anglophone world and the corresponding decline of speculative philosophy. They also argued that this use of control suggests a characterisation of analytic philosophy as, at the institutional level, a sectarian form of critical philosophy. I test these hypotheses …Read more
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399Grace de Laguna’s 1909 Critique of Analytic Philosophy: Presentation and DefenceAsian Journal of Philosophy 2 (2): 1-26. 2023.Grace A. de Laguna was an American philosopher of exceptional originality. Many of the arguments and positions she developed during the early decades of the twentieth century later came to be central to analytic philosophy. These arguments and positions included, even before 1930, a critique of the analytic-synthetic distinction, a private language argument, a critique of type physicalism, a functionalist theory of mind, a critique of scientific reductionism, a methodology of research programs i…Read more
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180Chapter 12 IntroductionIn Joel Katzav, Dorothy Rogers & Krist Vaesen (eds.), Knowledge, Mind and Reality: An Introduction by Early Twentieth-Century American Women Philosophers, Springer. pp. 117-129. 2023.This chapter introduces the articles by Marie C. Swabey, Thelma Z. Lavine, Grace A. de Laguna and Dorothy Walsh on the objectivity of scientific knowledge. We will see Swabey placing herself outside the historicist traditions of (later) authors (e.g., Thomas Kuhn), and arguing that the rationality and objectivity of science are grounded in synthetic a priori justified logical principles. Lavine and de Laguna, by contrast, embrace socio-historical approaches to the study of science, thus anticipa…Read more
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262Chapter 7 IntroductionIn Joel Katzav, Dorothy Rogers & Krist Vaesen (eds.), Knowledge, Mind and Reality: An Introduction by Early Twentieth-Century American Women Philosophers, Springer. pp. 69-80. 2023.I introduce the key ideas of foundationalist, coherentist and pragmatist theories of knowledge. I then use these ideas as background for presenting the work on knowledge and perception in this part, work by Grace Andrus de Laguna and Marie Collins Swabey. We will see that these authors critique the idea of sense data that was central to the foundationalist theories of knowledge of Bertrand Russel and other early analytic thinkers, though de Laguna’s critique leads to perspectivism about percepti…Read more
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169Individuality 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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18The Philosophy of Henri Bergson (Part I & II, Excerpts)In Joel Katzav, Dorothy Rogers & Krist Vaesen (eds.), Knowledge, Mind and Reality: An Introduction by Early Twentieth-Century American Women Philosophers, Springer. pp. 275-288. 2023.In the selections that follow, Grace Neal Dolson offers a critical reading of experience, intuition, and duration in Bergson’s thought.
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334Time as Related to Causality and to SpaceIn Joel Katzav, Dorothy Rogers & Krist Vaesen (eds.), Knowledge, Mind and Reality: An Introduction by Early Twentieth-Century American Women Philosophers, Springer. pp. 247-260. 2023.In this chapter, Mary Whiton Calkins examines available conceptions of time and develops her own reconceptualization of it.
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330Dualism in Animal PsychologyIn Joel Katzav, Dorothy Rogers & Krist Vaesen (eds.), Knowledge, Mind and Reality: An Introduction by Early Twentieth-Century American Women Philosophers, Springer. pp. 199-207. 2023.This chapter is Grace Andrus de Laguna's discussion of Margaret Floy Washburn’s The Animal Mind.
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296The Empirical Correlation of Mental and Bodily PhenomenaIn Joel Katzav, Dorothy Rogers & Krist Vaesen (eds.), Knowledge, Mind and Reality: An Introduction by Early Twentieth-Century American Women Philosophers, Springer. pp. 209-215. 2023.This chapter is Grace Andrus de Laguna’s discussion of the relationship between mind and brain.
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295The Personalistic Conception of NatureIn Joel Katzav, Dorothy Rogers & Krist Vaesen (eds.), Knowledge, Mind and Reality: An Introduction by Early Twentieth-Century American Women Philosophers, Springer. pp. 217-233. 2023.This chapter is Mary Whiton Calkins’ articulation and defense of the personalistic conception of reality.
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115Pragmatism 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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81Appearance 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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8Philosophical Implications of the Historical EnterpriseIn Joel Katzav, Dorothy Rogers & Krist Vaesen (eds.), Knowledge, Mind and Reality: An Introduction by Early Twentieth-Century American Women Philosophers, Springer. pp. 167-173. 2023.In this chapter, Dorothy Walsh examines the nature of historical inquiry.
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323Cultural Relativism and ScienceIn Joel Katzav, Dorothy Rogers & Krist Vaesen (eds.), Knowledge, Mind and Reality: An Introduction by Early Twentieth-Century American Women Philosophers, Springer. pp. 149-166. 2023.In this chapter, Grace Andrus de Laguna examines cultural relativism and its bearing on science.
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246Ethics and MetaphysicsIn Joel Katzav, Dorothy Rogers & Krist Vaesen (eds.), Knowledge, Mind and Reality: An Introduction by Early Twentieth-Century American Women Philosophers, Springer. pp. 43-50. 2023.In this chapter, Dorothy Walsh argues that any ethical theory requires an underlying speculative metaphysics.
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7Relativism and Philosophic MethodsIn Joel Katzav, Dorothy Rogers & Krist Vaesen (eds.), Knowledge, Mind and Reality: An Introduction by Early Twentieth-Century American Women Philosophers, Springer. pp. 59-65. 2023.In this chapter, Marjorie Glicksman argues that the validity of philosophical positions is relative to philosophical methodology.
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8The Nature, Types, and Value of PhilosophyIn Joel Katzav, Dorothy Rogers & Krist Vaesen (eds.), Knowledge, Mind and Reality: An Introduction by Early Twentieth-Century American Women Philosophers, Springer. pp. 35-41. 2023.This chapter is Mary Whiton Calkins’ discussion of, and support for, the identification of philosophy with speculative metaphysics.
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8The Freedom of the PersonIn Joel Katzav, Dorothy Rogers & Krist Vaesen (eds.), Knowledge, Mind and Reality: An Introduction by Early Twentieth-Century American Women Philosophers, Springer. pp. 323-337. 2023.In this article, Grace Andrus de Laguna develops a view of human freedom, one according to which it is made possible by the uniqueness of human individuals and the cultural worlds in which they live.
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17Bergson’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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6Excerpts from Washburn’s The Evidence of MindIn Joel Katzav, Dorothy Rogers & Krist Vaesen (eds.), Knowledge, Mind and Reality: An Introduction by Early Twentieth-Century American Women Philosophers, Springer. pp. 189-198. 2023.This chapter includes Margaret Floy Washburn’s discussion of the basis of inferences about animal minds and her discussion of what it is like to be an amoeba.
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7The General Nature of ReasonIn Joel Katzav, Dorothy Rogers & Krist Vaesen (eds.), Knowledge, Mind and Reality: An Introduction by Early Twentieth-Century American Women Philosophers, Springer. pp. 103-114. 2023.In this chapter, Marie Collins Swabey critiques naturalism and defends a rationalistic conception of knowledge.
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111Mr. 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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10Probability as the Basis of InductionIn Joel Katzav, Dorothy Rogers & Krist Vaesen (eds.), Knowledge, Mind and Reality: An Introduction by Early Twentieth-Century American Women Philosophers, Springer. pp. 131-136. 2023.In this chapter, Marie Collins Swabey discusses the problem of induction and offers her response to it.
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6Sociological Analysis of Cognitive NormsIn Joel Katzav, Dorothy Rogers & Krist Vaesen (eds.), Knowledge, Mind and Reality: An Introduction by Early Twentieth-Century American Women Philosophers, Springer. pp. 137-148. 2023.In this chapter, Thelma Zeno Lavine argues that the sociology of knowledge should subject the norms of knowledge to socio-historical analysis.
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216Chapter 2 IntroductionIn Joel Katzav, Dorothy Rogers & Krist Vaesen (eds.), Knowledge, Mind and Reality: An Introduction by Early Twentieth-Century American Women Philosophers, Springer. pp. 23-34. 2023.This chapter uses the distinction between speculative and analytic philosophy as a background against which to present the summaries of the articles on the nature of philosophy by Mary Whiton Calkins, Dorothy Walsh and Marjorie Glicksman. Calkins and Walsh (in her first contribution) examine the relationship between philosophy and metaphysics: Calkins identifies philosophy with speculative metaphysics while Walsh argues that any ethical theory requires some underlying speculative metaphysics. In…Read more
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10The Poetic Use of LanguageIn Joel Katzav, Dorothy Rogers & Krist Vaesen (eds.), Knowledge, Mind and Reality: An Introduction by Early Twentieth-Century American Women Philosophers, Springer. pp. 51-57. 2023.In this chapter, Dorothy Walsh examines the natures of the language of science and logic, the language of poetry, and the language of philosophy. She argues that each of these languages has its own distinct form of excellence.
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