Summer Institute in American Philosophy
Seminar Reading Lists
REREADING WILLIAM JAMES: TALKS TO TEACHERS
The reading for this seminar will be James’ Talks to Teachers on Psychology, and to Students on Some of Life’s
Ideals. The preferred edition is the one published by Harvard University Press edition, with an
introduction by Gerald Myers; however, other editions will work as well.
EXPERIENCING EDUCATION
The reading for this seminar includes three areas.
Part 1: Transcendentalism and Peirce.
Emerson, “Culture” (at
http://www.vcu.edu/engweb/transcendentalism/authors/emerson/essays/culture.html).
Emerson, “Education” (at
http://www.vcu.edu/engweb/transcendentalism/authors/emerson/essays/education.html).
Lydia Maria Child, “What is Beauty?” (at
http://www.vcu.edu/engweb/transcendentalism/ideas/beauty-lmc.html).
Elizabeth Peabody, “Plan of the West Roxbury Community" (at
http://www.vcu.edu/engweb/transcendentalism/authors/peabody/roxbury-epp.html).
Part 2: Art and Education
Historical writings on arts and pragmatism
Jane Addams “XVI. Arts at Hull-House” from 1910 Twenty Years at Hull-House
http://media.pfeiffer.edu/lridener/DSS/Addams/2hh16.html
Ellen Gates Starr “IX. Art and Labor” from 1895 Hull-House Maps and Papers
http://media.pfeiffer.edu/lridener/DSS/Addams/hh9.html
John Dewey, Art as Experience, Chapter I “The Live Creature” and Chapter XII “The Challenge to
Philosophy”
http://books.google.com/books?id=aAbqAGo5MwwC&dq=art+as+experience+john+de
wey+text&printsec=frontcover&source=bn&hl=en&ei=3rhBSo76Bo_KtgfZ3cWbCQ&sa
=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=4
Contemporary writings on pragmatic education
From Education and Democracy: Re-Imagining Liberal Learning in America, Robert Orrill, Executive Editor,
1997.
Robert Orrill, “Editor’s Prologue”
http://www.unlv.edu/centers/cdclv/pragmatism/orril_intro_educ.pdf
Douglas C. Bennett, “Innovation in the Liberal Arts and Sciences” pp. 131-149
Bruce Kimball, “Naming Pragmatic Liberal Education” pp. 45-67 (recommended)
Contemporary writings on education, arts, & pragmatism
Ryan, Musgrave 2009 “Addams Philosophy of Art: Feminist Aesthetics and Moral Imagination at
Hull-House” in forthcoming Feminist Interpretations of Jane Addams [http://americanphilosophy.org/events/documents/SIAP_2009_Musgrave_Feminist_Interpretations_of_Jan
e_Addams.doc]
Two Case Studies
First Case:
May 21, 2009 “The Case For Working With Your Hands” Matthew B. Crawford New York
Times Magazine http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/24/magazine/24labort.html?scp=1&sq=case%20for%20working%20with%20hands&st=cse
June 15, 2009 “A Hands-On Philosopher Argues for a Fresh Vision of Manual Work”
Carolyn Mooney Chronicle of Higher Education
http://chronicle.com/free/v55/i39/39crawford.htm
Second Case:
Genius Reserve, Winter Park, FL
http://tars.rollins.edu/olin/archives/Genius/index.html
and 2008 “Florida Studies: A Pragmatic Vision for Curriculum Reform”
http://www.colleges.org/newmodels/interdisciplinary/Rollins/Rollins_EcologicalRestorati
on_finalreport.pdf
Part 3: Narrative and the Experience of Education
Jane Addams, Long Road of Woman’s Memory, Chapter 2,
http://books.google.com/books?q=long%20road%20of%20woman%27s%20memory&oe
=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&um=1&ie=UTF8&sa=N&hl=en&tab=wp.
D. Jean Clandinin and Jerry Rosiek, Mapping a Landscape of Narrative Inquiry: Borderland Spaces
and Tensions. [http://americanphilosophy.org/events/documents/SIAP_2009_Clandinin_Proof-Ch2.pdf]
AESTHETICS
Participants in the sessions on aesthetics might like to read from the following sources according to
your interests:
Theories of Modern Art, edited by Herschel B. Chipp, University of California Press, 1968
Theories and Documents of Contemporary Art, edited by Christine Stiles & Peter Selz, University of
California Press, 1996
John Dewey, Art as Experience, Later Works, Volume 10, edited by Jo Ann Boydston, Southern
Illinois University Press. See Chapter XII
“To Be Human is to Humanize: A Radically Empirical Aesthetic,” in John McDermott, The Culture of
Experience, New York University Press, 1976, pp 21-62
Justus Buchler, The Main of Light, Oxford University Press, 1974
Justus Buchler, Nature and Judgment, Columbia University Press, 1955
Hilary Kornblith, “In Defense of a Naturalized Epistemology,” in John Greco and Ernest Sosa, eds.,
The Blackwell Guide to Epistemology, Blackwell Publishers, Ltd., 1999, pp 158-69
J. Wagner and Richard Warner, eds., Naturalism, Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press,
1993. See especially the Introduction, pp 1-21
Berys Gaut, “Art and Cognition,” in Matthew Kieran, ed., Contemporary Debates in Aesthetics and the
Philosophy of Art, Blackwell Publishers, Ltd, 2006, pp115-126
Peter Lamarque, “Cognitive Values in the arts: Marking the Boundaries,” in Matthew Kieran, ed.,
Contemporary Debates in Aesthetics and the Philosophy of Art, Blackwell Publishers, Ltd, 2006, pp
127-142
AMERICAN FEMINISM
Part 1: Defining a Tradition
Charlene Haddock Seigfried, Introduction: “Feminism and the Writings of American Women,” in
John J. Stuhr, ed. Pragmatism and Classical American Philosophy: Essential Readings and
Interpretive Essays. 2nd ed., revised. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000, pp. 625-30.
Charlene Haddock Seigfried, “Has Passion a Place in Philosophy?” in Hugh McCann and Robert
Audi, eds., Philosophy in America at the Turn of the Century, APA Centennial volume,
2003, Journal of Philosophical Research (2003), 35-54. Available online:
http://www.pdcnet.org/pdf/4Seigfried.pdf.
Scott L. Pratt, Native Pragmatism, Chapter 2. [PDF]
Ella Lyman Cabot, Everyday Ethics, Chapters 1, 9, 12, 13, 14, 22.
(http://books.google.com/books?id=EBAAAAAAYAAJ&dq=Everyday+Ethics+Cabot&p
rintsec=frontcover&source=bl&ots=t_bXEZCDBc&sig=A_VAM_G3AvUt2tDzfUdNZhr
wGHM&hl=en&ei=ze8ySpHaLdHBtweBz7T5Dg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resn
um=1#PPR2,M1).
Ella Lyman Cabot, “The Relation of Chance to Purpose in Education.” [http://www.americanphilosophy.org/events/documents/Kaag%20Summer%20Institute.pdf]
Part 2: Gilman and Follett
Mary Parker Follett, Creative Experience, Chapters 1-10.
(http://link.library.utoronto.ca/booksonline/digobject.cfm?Idno=99002019&CFID=83160
28&CFTOKEN=97408987) [PDF of Part I is also available at
http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~uophil/faculty/spratt/reading1.html.]
Charlotte Perkins Gilman, “If I Were a Man”
(http://chss.montclair.edu/~landwebj/ww/gilman.htm).
Charlotte Perkins Gilman, “The Unnatural Mother”
(http://books.google.com/books?id=_oIOzBhX5ywC&pg=PA305&lpg=PA305&dq=%22
The+Unnatural+Mother%22+Gilman&source=bl&ots=BVuYwL2XfO&sig=NYWoGoNt
J65U0KvkZFwLDEt_lSw&hl=en&ei=Fw2SraCKqPoNJOd4P4J&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=2#PPA307,M1).
Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Man Made World, Chapters 1, 2, 9, and 14.
(http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/3015).
Part 3: Contemporary American Feminism
Discussion in Part 3 will focus on the papers of Charlene Haddock Siegfried (below) in relation to
problems in ethics and social/political philosophy (McKenna), the history of philosophy (Kaag), and
pluralism (Pratt).
Erin McKenna and Andrew Light, Introduction: The Future of Human Non-Human Relationships,
in Animal Pragmatism, Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2004.
http://books.google.com/books?id=SIuq_q00gQYC&printsec=frontcover&dq=animal+pr
agmatism&client=firefox-a
John Kaag, “Women and Forgotten Movements in American Philosophy: The Work of Ella Lyman
Cabot and Mary Parker Follett.” [http://www.americanphilosophy.org/events/documents/Kaag%20Summer%20Institute%20II.pdf]
Scott L. Pratt, The Experience of Pluralism. Journal of Speculative Philosophy, 21, 2, 2007, 106-114.
[http://americanphilosophy.org/events/documents/SIAP_2009_Pratt_Experience_of_Pluralism.pdf]
Charlene Haddock Seigfried, “Beyond Epistemology: From A Pragmatist Feminist Experiential
Standpoint,” in Nancy Tuana and Sandi Morgen, eds., Engendering Rationalities. Albany:
State University of New York Press, 2001, pp. 99-121.
Charlene Haddock Seigfried, “The Courage of One’s Convictions or the Conviction of One’s
Courage? Jane Addams’s Principled Compromises,” in Wendy Chmielewski, Marilyn
Fischer, and Carol Nackenoff, eds., Jane Addams and the Practice of Democracy. University
of Illinois Press, 2009, pp. 40-62.
Charlene Haddock Seigfried, “The Dilemma of Democracy: Diversity of Interests and Common
Experiences,” in Alfonso Morales, ed., Renascent Pragmatism: Studies in Law and Social
Science. Brookfield, VT: Ashgate, 2003, pp. 31-48.
http://books.google.com/books?id=ufAoxVUKxrAC&printsec=frontcover&dq=Renascen
t+Pragmatism&client=firefox-a
Charlene Haddock Seigfried, “Relating Identity and Diversity,” in Identity and Social
Transformation, Alexander Kremer, John Ryder, and Jim Campbell, eds. Value Inquiry
Book Series, Rodopi Press, forthcoming. [http://americanphilosophy.org/events/documents/SIAP_2009_Seigfried_Paper.pdf]
Charlene Haddock Seigfried, “The Dangers of Unilateralism,” Special issue on Feminist Perspectives
on Peace and War: Before and After 9-11, NWSA Journal, 18:3 (Fall, 2006), 20-32.
WORKS-IN-PROGRESS
Michael Eldridge (University of North Carolina, Charlotte), Obama’s Pragmatism
Please see the website http://www.obamaspragmatism.info/.
Donald Dryden (Duke University), Susanne Langer’s Theory of Imagination: Art, Culture, and the
Sciences of Life and Mind
Donald Dryden, Abstract and tentative table of contents, Susanne Langer's Theory of Imagination: Art,
Culture, and the Sciences of Life and Mind. [http://americanphilosophy.org/events/documents/SIAP_2009_Dryden_SKL_as_Prophet_and_Visionary_
JSP_2007.pdf]
Donald Dryden, “Memory, Imagination, and the Cognitive Value of the Arts,” Consciousness and
Cognition 13(2):254-267 (2004). [http://americanphilosophy.org/events/documents/SIAP_2009_Dryden_SIAP_2009_Work_in_Progress_A
bstract_and_TOC.pdf]
Donald Dryden, “The Philosopher as Prophet and Visionary: Susanne Langer’s Essay on Human
Feeling in the Light of Subsequent Developments in the Sciences,” Journal of Speculative
Philosophy 21(1):27-43 (2007). [http://americanphilosophy.org/events/documents/SIAP_2009_Dryden_Memory_Imagination_Art_C_and
_C_2004.pdf]
Kipton Jensen (LaGrande College), Reading Misreadings: On Some Hegelisms in American
Philosophy
Kipton Jenson, Project Overview http://americanphilosophy.org/events/documents/SIAP_2009_Jensen.pdf]
Kimberly Lockwood (University of Dayton), James, Shusterman and the Role of the Body in
Joint Attention
DISSERTATIONS-IN PROGRESS
Cherilyn Keall (University of Guelph), In Search of 'Freedom Which Is Power': John Dewey
and the Art of Education
Here is a list of readings that are especially relevant for my dissertation:
Dewey, "Does Human Nature Change?" (LW: 13)
Dewey, Experience and Education (LW: 13)
Dewey, Chapter 2 of Freedom and Culture (LW: 13)
Dewey, Chapters 1-7 of Democracy and Education, and especially chapters 4 & 6 for Dewey's
discussions of growth and of intelligent and blind activity (MW: 9)
Dewey, Human Nature and Conduct (MW: 14)
Dewey, Art as Experience (LW: 10)
Friedrich Schiller, “On the Aesthetic Education of Man”
Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Phenomenology of Perception
John Russon, Human Experience: Philosophy, Neurosis, and the Elements of Everyday Life
Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics
The most important works for the purpose of discussing my dissertation-in-progress at the summer
institute are the first four works by Dewey that I indicate above. I mention the last six works just in
case some seminar participants might be or might want to become familiar with them.
Amrita Banerjee (University of Oregon), Retaining and Transgressing Boundaries:
Potentials of a Phenomenological-Pragmatist Framework for Transnational Feminist
Futures
Kara Barnette-Grace (University of Oregon), Necessary Error: Josiah Royce, Communal
Inquiry, and Feminist Epistemology
Jeff Levering (Pacifica Graduate Institute), Re-Visioning Education