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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"american philosophy"”.
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EVOLUTION AND THE TRANSFORMATION OF AMERICAN PHILOSOPHY
… of evolution to the foundations and practice of American philosophy has not been fully recognized. The years surrounding the first appearance of the theory of evolution on American shores were full of scientific uncertainty and philosophical excitement. William James, Charles Sanders Peirce, and …
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Mystical anxiety: American philosophy between Emerson and pragmatism
… continuity between Ralph Waldo Emerson and American pragmatism has been one of the most prominent narratives constructed by scholars of American intellectual history in recent decades. This dissertation unsettles this selective interpretation of American thought rooted in the optimistic …
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Royce and Perry on Idealism and Realism
… understanding of the changes that took place in American philosophy in the early part of twentieth century. Royce's arguments against the neorealist position of Perry (and others) centered on both the nature of error, and the nature of independence. Perry' response to these arguments was an …
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Some Philosophical Origins of an Ecological Sensibility
… is centered on problems within the history and philosophy of biology. The project identifies the philosophical roots of the current ecological movement and shows how a version of philosophical naturalism might be put to use within contemporary ethical issues in biology, and aid in the …
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Get Ready for Future Education: A Phenomenological Study on Artificial Intelligence
… intelligence in education, grounding in American philosophy, with a review of the history of A.I. in education, its promise, and possible futures. The primary purpose of the study was to share voices and lived experiences of educators, philosophers, industrialists and politicians toward …
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Black Existential Philosophy: Truth in Virtue of Self-Discovery
In the past 20 years, within the discipline of philosophy there has been a burgeoning interest in the fields of Race theory, Africana, and African American philosophy, especially in the scholarship and questions concerning the experience and meaning of black existence; that is, within black …
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Defining the Home from Chopin to McCarthy
… between home, domesticity and space in American Literature has been the source of much critical debate and discussion. Although the physical space is now settled the ideology of the frontier and the need for continuous expansion still permeates American culture. Additionally, the …
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Mastering the Story/Storying the Master: Philosophy of Education Discourse and Empire
… is an exploration of the role of Euro-North American Philosophy of Education discourse in the genealogy of race struggle. I examine how the reliable narration of Philosophy of Education functions as a project of racial rule premised on moral/temporal/spatial notions of (White) civility and …
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Wittgenstein and his students, 1912-1968
… of Ludwig Wittgenstein’s approach to doing philosophy. It serves foremost as a contribution to the history of British culture and ideas. From the 1922 publication of Wittgenstein’s Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus to the 1968 founding of the Wittgenstein Manuscripts Archive at Cornell …
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A Naturalistic Ontology of Generic Traits and Emergent Phenomena: Reinterpreting the Metaphysics of John Dewey
I offer an interpretive reconstruction of John Dewey’s naturalistic metaphysics. I explore the function and interrelation of a number of terms that are central to Dewey’s metaphysics, including “nature,” “continuity,” “generic traits of existence,” the “qualitative,” “experience,” and “emergence.” …
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The invention of order: modern spatial concepts and the emergence of the Americas
… philosophical dialogue with texts from the Latin American, Caribbean, and 20th Century French traditions along with sixteenth-century Spanish theological, juridical, and philosophical texts: from Enrique Dussel to Édouard Glissant, Gilles Deleuze to Michel Foucault, and Bartolomé de las Casas to …
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John Dewey in American Thought and Culture, 1950-2000
… John Dewey (1859-1952) as a central theorist of American democracy during the first half of the twentieth century. Yet, while historians have given much attention to Dewey’s philosophy, they have neglected to examine his posthumous influence on American thought and culture. This represents a …
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How to Be a Pragmatist in the End: Objectivity, Skepticism, and the Demands of Agency
Pragmatists face serious difficulties in accounting for the objectivity of truth and knowledge. For they clarify our beliefs’ meaning and truth by appeal to their practical success, and practical success seems relative to particular contexts, or even particular believers. Some pragmatists verge on …
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Whiteness and the Return of the "Black Body"
The objective of this dissertation project is to theorize and understand Black embodiment within the context of white hegemony, that is, within the context of a white racist anti-Black world. I theorize the Black body as a site of lived historicity vis-á-vis whiteness as the transcendental …
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Transcendentalist Aesthetics in Emerson, Peirce, and Nineteenth-Century American Landscape Painting
… novel forms, as exemplified in art. I call the philosophy that endorses the reality of this dimension Transcendentalist Aesthetics. The term "Transcendentalist" recalls the philosophy of New England Transcendentalism with its core in Ralph Waldo Emerson, and which influenced the philosophical …
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Just Philosophy, Just Practice? An Exploration of Enrique Dussel's Ethics of Liberation in Relation to the Normative Dimension of Two Movements Against Globalisation and Exclusion
… Age of Globalisation and Exclusion by the Latin American philosopher Enrique Dussel aims to be 'a day to day ethics, starting from and in favour of the immense majorities of humanity excluded from globalisation, in the historic 'nonnality' that is presently prevalent' 1 • Dussel's Ethics is based …
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Extractivism and the Defense of Life and Territories: An Account of Latin American Environmental Thought
… but undertheorized tradition that I call Latin American environmental thought.</p> <p>The conceptual core of Latin American environmental thought, I argue, are the concepts of extractivism, the defense of life and territories, and alternatives. I devote one chapter of the dissertation to each of …
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UN INCONTRO TRA DARWINISMO E PRAGMATISMO: LA FILOSOFIA EVOLUZIONISTICA DI CHAUNCEY WRIGHT
… “orthodox” view behind natural sciences and the philosophy of nature both in Europe and in America. Natural theology was taught in every school, academy, college, and it claimed that all the species in nature are created by God for a good purpose or a general design, are fixed in time, and they …
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La vanguardia y sus retornos: confabulaciones del presente en cuatro escritores latinoamericanos
… del presente en cuatro escritores latinoamericanos [The Avant-garde and its Returns: Confabulating the Present in Four Latin American Writers] When reading contemporary Latin American writers from different countries and distinct cultural backgrounds, the relevance of the avant-garde in …