Robbins Library Notes

Good morning, readers!

As  I’m working on the guide that I mentioned in my post two weeks ago, I want to share with you some good general histories and critiques of and guides to American philosophy and philosophers that I’ve uncovered.  A few of these overlap with the earlier post, but I want to include them here as well.

Alcoff, L. M.  (2003).  Singing in the Fire: Stories of Women in Philosophy.  New York: Rowman & Littlefield.

Campbell, J.  (2007).  One Hundred Years of Pragmatism.  Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 43(1): 1-15.

Charles S. Peirce Society.  (2009).  Retrieved 8 October 2009 from http://www.peircesociety.org/.

DeArmey, M. & Good, J. A. (Eds.) (2001).  The St. Louis Hegelians.  3 Vols. New York: Thoemmes Continuum.

Ferguson, A.  (1994).  Twenty Years of Feminist Philosophy.  Hypatia 9(3): 197-215.

Field, R.  (2005).  The St. Louis Hegelians.  Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy.  Retrieved 5 October 2009 from http://www.iep.utm.edu/hstlouis.

Floyd, J. & Shieh, S.  (2001).  Future Pasts: The Analytic Tradition in Twentieth-Century Philosophy.  New York: Oxford University Press.

Goodman, R. (2009).  Transcendentalism.  The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. E. N. Zalta (Ed.).  Retrieved 5 October 2009 from http://plato.stanford.edu/archives/spr2009/entries/transcendentalism.

Haldane, J.  (2002).  American Philosophy: ‘Scotch’ or ‘Teutonic’?  Philosophy 77(301): 311-329.

Hollinger, D. A. (1980).  The Problem of Pragmatism in American History.  Journal of American History 67(1): 88-107.

Kaag, J.  (2008).  Women and Forgotten Movements in American Philosophy: The Work of Ella Lyman Cabot and Mary Parker Follett.  Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 44(1): 134-157.

Karnos, D. D. & Shoemaker, R. G.  (1994).  Falling in Love with Wisdom: American Philosophers Talk About Their Calling.  New York: Oxford University Press.

Kuklick, B.  (1977).  The Rise of American Philosophy: Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1860-1930.  New Haven: Yale University Press.

Kuklick, B.  (2002).  A History of Philosophy in America, 1720-2000.  New York: Oxford University Press.

Marsoobian, A. T. & Ryder, J.  (Eds.) (2004).  The Blackwell Guide to American Philosophy.  New York: Wiley-Blackwell.

Miller, P.  (1970). The Life of the Mind in America: From the Revolution to the Civil War.  New York: Mariner.

Outlaw, L. T. (1996). The “Future” of Philosophy in America. In On Race and Philosophy.  New York: Routledge.  183-204.

Outlaw, L. T. (1997).  Africana Philosophy. Journal of Ethics 1(3): 265-290.

Pragmatism Cybrary.  (2009).  Retrieved 8 October 2009 from http://www.pragmatism.org/.

Rorty, R.  (1980).  Philosophy in America Today.  In Consequences of Pragmatism: Essays, 1972-1980.  Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.  211-230.

Soames, S.  (2003).  Philosophical Analysis in the Twentieth Century.  2 vols.  Princeton: Princeton University Press.

Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy.  (2009).  Retrieved 9 October 2009 from http://www.american-philosophy.org/index.htm.

West, C. (1989).  The American Evasion of Philosophy: A Genealogy of Pragmatism.  Madison: University of Wisconsin Press.

Wettstein, H. & French, P. A. (Eds.).  (2004).  The American Philosophers. Midwest Studies in Philosophy, Vol. XXVIII.  New York: Wiley-Blackwell.

Yancy, G.  (Ed.).  (1998).  African-American Philosophers: 17 Conversations.  New York: Routledge

Are there others that I’m missing?

Good morning, readers!

Here are the November 2008 reviews from Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews.  Are any worth acquiring for Robbins?

Dean Moyar, Michael Quante (eds.), Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit: A Critical Guide
Reviewed by Jeffrey Church, Duke University

Nathan Widder, Reflections on Time and Politics
Reviewed by Dorothea Olkowski, University of Colorado at Colorado Springs

Heather Dyke, Metaphysics and the Representational Fallacy
Reviewed by Matti Eklund, Cornell University

Hans Bernhard Schmid, Katinka Schulte-Ostermann, Nikos Psarros (eds.), Concepts of Sharedness: Essays on Collective Intentionality
Reviewed by Peter Tramel, USMA, West Point

W.J. Waluchow, A Common Law Theory of Judicial Review: The Living Tree
Reviewed by Jeffrey Brand-Ballard, George Washington University

Douglas Walton, Witness Testimony Evidence: Argumentation, Artificial Intelligence, and Law
Reviewed by Michael S. Pardo, University of Alabama

Lewis R. Gordon, An Introduction to Africana Philosophy
Reviewed by Jacoby Adeshei Carter, CUNY: John Jay College

James Griffin, On Human Rights
Reviewed by William J. Talbott, University of Washington

Michael Allen Gillespie, The Theological Origins of Modernity
Reviewed by David Burrell, C.S.C., University of Notre Dame/Uganda Martyrs University, Nkozi

Stewart Goetz, Charles Taliaferro, Naturalism
Reviewed by Paul Draper, Purdue University

Robert Audi, Moral Value and Human Diversity
Reviewed by Diane Jeske, University of Iowa

Maria Cristina Amoretti, Nicla Vassallo (eds.), Knowledge, Language, and Interpretation: On the Philosophy of Donald Davidson
Reviewed by Daniel Laurier, University of Montreal

Hanno Birken-Bertsch, Subreption und Dialektik bei Kant: Der Begriff des Fehlers der Erschleichung in der Philosophie des 18. Jahrhunderts
Reviewed by Riccardo Pozzo, Universitä di Verona

Larry May (ed.). War: Essays in Political Philosophy
Reviewed by Helen Frowe, University of Sheffield

Diane Jeske, Rationality and Moral Theory: How Intimacy Generates Reasons
Reviewed by Simon Keller, University of Melbourne

Paul Weingartner, Omniscience: From a Logical Point of View
Reviewed by Daniel J. Hill, University of Liverpool

John T. Lysaker, Emerson and Self-Culture
Reviewed by Corey McCall, Elmira College

Michele Marsonet, Idealism and Praxis: The Philosophy of Nicholas Rescher
Reviewed by Don Ihde, Stony Brook University