Skip to main content
SpringerLink
Log in

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

  • Book
  • © 2023

Overview

Editors:
  1. Joel Katzav

    1. University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia

    View editor publications

    You can also search for this editor in PubMed   Google Scholar

  2. Krist Vaesen

    1. Department of Philosophy and Ethics, Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, The Netherlands

    View editor publications

    You can also search for this editor in PubMed   Google Scholar

  3. Dorothy Rogers

    1. Department of Educational Foundations, Montclair State University, Montclair, USA

    View editor publications

    You can also search for this editor in PubMed   Google Scholar

  • The only collection of work by American, women philosophers from the first half of the twentieth century
  • Includes original work as well as a historical and philosophical background to that work
  • A unique perspective on twentieth-century philosophy

Part of the book series: Women in the History of Philosophy and Sciences (WHPS, volume 18)

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this book

Log in via an institution
eBook USD 99.00
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Available as EPUB and PDF
  • Read on any device
  • Instant download
  • Own it forever
Softcover Book USD 129.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Compact, lightweight edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info
Hardcover Book USD 129.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Durable hardcover edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info

Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout

Other ways to access

Licence this eBook for your library

Institutional subscriptions

Table of contents (29 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
    Download chapter PDF

  2. American Women Philosophers: Institutions, Background and Thought

    • Joel Katzav, Dorothy Rogers, Krist Vaesen
    Pages 1-20

  3. The Nature of Philosophy

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 21-21
      Download chapter PDF

    2. Introduction

      • Joel Katzav, Krist Vaesen
      Pages 23-34

    3. The Nature, Types, and Value of Philosophy

      • Mary Whiton Calkins, Edited by, Joel Katzav, Krist Vaesen
      Pages 35-41

    4. Ethics and Metaphysics

      • Dorothy Walsh, Edited by, Joel Katzav, Krist Vaesen
      Pages 43-50

    5. The Poetic Use of Language

      • Dorothy Walsh, Edited by, Joel Katzav, Krist Vaesen
      Pages 51-57

    6. Relativism and Philosophic Methods

      • Marjorie Glicksman, Edited by, Joel Katzav, Krist Vaesen
      Pages 59-65

  4. Knowledge and Perception

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 67-67
      Download chapter PDF

    2. Introduction

      • Joel Katzav
      Pages 69-80

    3. Mr. G. E. Moore’s Discussion of Sense Data

      • Marie Collins Swabey, Edited by, Joel Katzav, Dorothy Rogers
      Pages 81-86

    4. Appearance and Orientation

      • Grace Andrus de Laguna, Edited by, Joel Katzav, Dorothy Rogers
      Pages 87-91

    5. Pragmatism and the Form of Thought

      • Grace Andrus de Laguna, Theodore de Laguna, Edited by, Joel Katzav, Dorothy Rogers
      Pages 93-102

    6. The General Nature of Reason

      • Marie Collins Swabey, Edited by, Joel Katzav, Dorothy Rogers
      Pages 103-114

  5. The Objectivity of Scientific Knowledge

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 115-115
      Download chapter PDF

    2. Introduction

      • Joel Katzav, Krist Vaesen
      Pages 117-129

    3. Probability as the Basis of Induction

      • Marie Collins Swabey, Edited by, Joel Katzav, Krist Vaesen
      Pages 131-136

    4. Sociological Analysis of Cognitive Norms

      • Thelma Zeno Lavine, Edited by, Joel Katzav, Krist Vaesen
      Pages 137-148

    5. Cultural Relativism and Science

      • Grace Andrus de Laguna, Edited by, Joel Katzav, Krist Vaesen
      Pages 149-166

    6. Philosophical Implications of the Historical Enterprise

      • Dorothy Walsh, Edited by, Joel Katzav, Krist Vaesen
      Pages 167-173
Back to top

Keywords

About this book

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.

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia

    Joel Katzav

  • Department of Philosophy and Ethics, Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, The Netherlands

    Krist Vaesen

  • Department of Educational Foundations, Montclair State University, Montclair, USA

    Dorothy Rogers

About the editors

Joel Katzav is an associate professor at the University of Queensland. His research is mainly in the philosophy of science, the history of twentieth-century philosophy and metaphysics. He is the author of many papers, including ‘Pluralism and peer review in philosophy’ (with Krist Vaesen), ‘Analytic philosophy, 125-1969: emergence, management and nature’, ‘Grace de Laguna’s analytic and speculative philosophy’ and ‘Issues in the theoretical foundations of climate science’. He edited (with Wendy S. Parker) ‘Assessing climate models: knowledge, values and policy’, a special edition of the European Journal for the Philosophy of Science.


Dorothy Rogers is a professor at Montclair State University in the U.S.  Her primary research is on women in the history of American philosophy, women’s/feminist social and political thought in the nineteenth century.  She has published articles about women philosophers in Hypatia and is the author or editor of books on women philosophers in the U.S., including Marietta Kies and Catharine Beecher. Her books, Women Philosophers: Education and Activism in Nineteenth-Century America and Women Philosophers: Entering Academia (1880–1920) were published with Bloomsbury in 2020


Krist Vaesen is an associate professor at Eindhoven University of Technology, the Netherlands. His principal research interests are the philosophy of science, the history of twentieth-century philosophy, and epistemology. He has, together with Joel Katzav, written on the history of analytic philosophy and of American philosophy of science. His work on evolutionary anthropology has been published in various prominent scientific and philosophy journals, including the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society and Biology & Philosophy. 

Bibliographic Information

Publish with us

Policies and ethics

Back to top

Search

Navigation