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Knowledge, Mind and Reality: An Introduction by Early Twentieth-Century American Women Philosophers

English · Paperback / Softback

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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 philosophy, knowledge, the philosophy of science, the mind-matter nexus, the nature of time, and the question of freedom and the individual. The material is suitable for scholars, researchers and advanced philosophy students interested in (history of) philosophy; theories of knowledge; philosophy of science; mind, and reality.

List of contents

Chapter 1. Nature of philosophy.- Chapter 2. Knowledge: reason and experience.- Chapter 3. Science and objectivity.- Chapter 4. The physical and the material.- Chapter 5. Individuals and time.- Chapter 6. Freedom and time.

Product details

Assisted by Joel Katzav (Editor), Dorothy Rogers (Editor), Krist Vaesen (Editor)
Publisher Springer, Berlin
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback / Softback
Released 24.03.2024
 
EAN 9783031244391
ISBN 978-3-0-3124439-1
No. of pages 344
Illustrations XI, 344 p. 2 illus.
Series Women in the History of Philosophy and Sciences
Subjects Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries
Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works

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