Hypatia articles from March 1993

Hypatia archives from March 1993

Shared communities of interest: feminism and pragmatism. (Special Issue: Feminism and Pragmatism)
March 22, 1993... This special issue begins a significant rapprochement, one that is both historically and theoretically overdue. The intent is not to recover - or not just to recover - a lost history of women and pragmatism but to join the resources of feminism...

Feminist-pragmatist revisionings of reason, knowledge, and philosophy. (Special Issue: Feminism and Pragmatism)
March 22, 1993... The classical-pragmatist and feminist projects in philosophy have developed out of similar frustrations with what are seen as limiting aspects of traditional" philosophy. Both feminists and pragmatists are wary of certain forms of idealization,...

Charlotte Perkins Gilman: instrumentalism beyond Dewey. (American philosopher John Dewey) (Special Issue: Feminism and Pragmatism)
March 22, 1993... In her thought-provoking article calling "for the rediscovery of women pragmatists," Charlene Haddock Seigfried contends that "pragmatism's white, male pantheon needs to be expanded to include women's contributions" (Seigfried 1991, 1, 8). This...

Pragmatists Jane Addams and John Dewey inform the ethic of care. (Special Issue: Feminism and Pragmatism)
March 22, 1993... Thus far in the dialogue on the ethics of care, we have no theoretical foundation that will help us to understand why the caring response at the highest level of ethical behavior will include not only ourselves and those within our intimate...

Dewey and feminism: the affective and relationships in Dewey's ethics. (American philosopher John Dewey) (Special Issue: Feminism and Pragmatism)
March 22, 1993... In 1930 Dewey pointed out that current present moral notions "are almost exclusively male constructions" and predicted that "the growing freedom of women can hardly have any other outcome than the production of more realistic and more humane...

Why we listen to lunatics: antifoundational theories and feminist politics.
March 22, 1993... The reason why we invite the moronic psychopath to address the court before being sentenced is not that we hope for better explanations than expert psychiatric testimony has offered. We do so because he is, after all, one of us. (Richard Rorty...

Teasing feminist sense from experience. (Special Issue: Feminism and Pragmatism)
March 22, 1993... This essay asks what pragmatism might contribute to feminism. Richard Rorty recently summarized his response to this question, stating that "we pragmatists" can "offer feminists a few pieces of special-purpose ammunition - for example, some...

Was George Herbert Mead a feminist? (Special Issue: Feminism and Pragmatism)
March 22, 1993... In 1920 George Herbert Mead, while on vacation in Honolulu, received word from his daughter-in-law, Irene Tufts Mead, that she had been warned against beginning her studies in medical school. The advice had come from none other than her young...

The intersection of pragmatism and feminism. (Special Issue: Feminism and Pragmatism)
March 22, 1993... Feminism and pragmatism seem oddly attuned to each other and yet somehow strangely apart. As Charlene Haddock Seigfried has noted, current feminist theory seems to pay little attention to pragmatism, at least within the realm of articles...

A question of evidence. (Special Issue: Feminism and Pragmatism)
March 22, 1993... Truth and belief, W. V. Quine once noted, are sticky concepts; they stick to each other (Quine 1981a, 38). Evidence is equally sticky. Consider how strange things become when we are asked to unstick belief and evidence: We sit and think,...

"Power in the service of love": John Dewey's Logic and the dream of a common language. (Special Issue: Feminism and Pragmatism)
March 22, 1993... Like many women in philosophy, I did not begin there as an undergraduate, mostly because of logic. I majored in English literature precisely because I would have to take symbolic logic if I majored in philosophy. I had enjoyed courses in...

Introduction to Jessie Taft, "The Woman Movement from the Point of View of Social Consciousness." (Special Issue: Feminism and Pragmatism)(Archive)
March 22, 1993... In 1913 at the University of Chicago Jessie Taft wrote what may be the first Ph.D. dissertation in philosophy on the women's movement. In a prefatory note she thanks the pragmatists George Herbert Mead, her dissertation director, and James H....

The woman movement as part of the larger social situation. (excerpt from The Woman Movement from the Point of View of Social Consciousness) (Special Issue: Feminism and Pragmatism)(Archive)
March 22, 1993... 1. Personality and the Present Social Order Such a survey as we have just made leaves little doubt as to the reality and seriousness of the chaotic conditions of which the "uneasy woman" complains. The bare fact that there exists in...

1895 letter from Harvard Philosophy Department. (Special Issue: Feminism and Pragmatism)(Archive)
March 22, 1993... An official letter reporting the unauthorized Ph.D. examination at Harvard University of Mary Whiton Calkins records the anomalous position which women have occupied in philosophy from the beginning. In 1895 the philosophy department of...