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“Where Are We Now?”
“Where Are We Now?” Since my last column, I’ve been preoccupied with the long-shot nomination of me, by a kind colleague, to give the John Dewey lecture at the American Philosophical Association. That’s the lecture underscoring the link between the … Continue reading
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Tagged "Destry Rides Again", "Here be dragons", "the boys in the back room", "the girls in the back room", Abigail L. Rosenthal's "Feminism Without Contradictions", Abigail L. Rosenthal's "Getting Past Marx and Freud", Absolute Spirit, American Philosophical Association, amoral impulses, Analytic philosophy, Anglo-American Philosophy, APA, Australian philosophy, Authenticity, background assumptions, British Idealism, cartography, college orientation, conceptual clarity, conceptual muddles, conceptual obscurity, Continental philosophy, cultural paradigms, dance hall singers, David Stove, doctrine of the unconscious, empiricism, falsifiability, feminine flattery, Feminism, Freud, human liberation, human motivation, ideal languages, ideology, induction, inhibitions, jargon, John Dewey Lectures, liberation, logical empiricism, logical positivism, manipulation, Marlene Dietrich, men's liberation, militant feminism, Mind Control, Nietzsche, nineteenth-century philosophy, ordinary language philosophy, originality, philosophical explanation, philosophical maps, philosophy of science, privacy, programming, psychic layers, rape, reductionism, Schopenhauer, scientific paradigms, sensory experience, sex differences, social contructs, theoretical entities, traditional woman, twentieth century philosophy, women's liberation, work and life, zones of silence
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“Philosophy”
“Philosophy” As a little girl, I would set the lunch table extra slowly so that I could overhear the philosophic conversations between my father, Henry M. Rosenthal, and Léo Bronstein, his closest friend. Understanding not a word, I still liked … Continue reading
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