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American Philosophies: An Anthology

ISBN: 978-0-631-21001-6

December 2001

Wiley-Blackwell

466 pages

Description
This anthology promotes a new vision: American Philosophy as complex and constantly changing, enlivened by historically marginalized, yet never silent, voices.
About the Author

Leonard Harris is Professor of Philosophy Professor at Purdue University. of Philosophy, He is editor of Racism (1999), The Critical Pragmatism of Alain Locke, (1999) and co-editor of Exploitation and Exclusion: Race and Class in Contemporary US Society (1992).

Scott Pratt is Assistant Professor at the University of Oregon. He is co-editor of The Philosophy of Cadwallader Colden (forthcoming).

Anne Waters is Assistant Professor at Texas Woman's University. She is the editor of American Indian Thought: A Philosophical Reader (Blackwell, forthcoming). She is also co-editor of Hypatia, Journal of Feminist Philosophy and is on the editorial board of Ayaanwayaamizin: An International Indigenist Philosophy Journal, and the Radical Philosophy Review.

Features

  • Portrays American Philosophy as complex and constantly changing.

  • Features readings from several different traditions of American Philosophy.

  • Provides a sense of the history and context of sophisticated, ongoing philosophical arguments.

  • Compels the reader to rethink the meaning of American Philosophy.