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- Creator:
- Lee, Emily S.
- Description:
- This book introduces and explores the relation between race and phenomenology through varied African American, Latina, Asian American, and White American perspectives. Phenomenology is best known as a descriptive endeavor to more accurately describe our experience of the world. These essays examine the ways in which this relation between phenomenology and race acts as a site of racial meaning. Philosophy of race conceives race as a social construction. Because of the sedimentation of racial meaning into the very structure and practices of society, the socially constructed meanings about features of the body are mistaken as natural. Hence although racial meaning is theoretically recognized as socially constructed, during an every-day interaction, racial meaning is mistaken as inevitable and natural. Ideal for advanced students in phenomenology and philosophy of race, this volume pushes the phenomenological method forward by exploring its relation to questions within philosophy of race.
- Resource Type:
- Book
- Identifier:
- 9781786605368
- Campus Tesim:
- Fullerton
- Department:
- Department of Philosophy
- Creator:
- McFee, Graham
- Description:
- Recent decades have seen attacks on philosophy as an irrelevant field of inquiry when compared with science. In this book, Graham McFee defends the claims of philosophy against attempts to minimize either philosophy’s possibility or its importance by deploying a contrast with what Wittgenstein characterized as the “dazzling ideal” of science. This ‘dazzling ideal’ incorporates both the imagined completeness of scientific explanation―whereby completing its project would leave nothing unexplained―and the exceptionless character of the associated conception of causality. On such a scientistic world-view, what need is there for philosophy? In his defense of philosophy (and its truth-claims), McFee shows that rejecting such scientism is not automatically anti-scientific, and that it permits granting to natural science (properly understood) its own truth-generating power. Further, McFee argues for contextualism in the project of philosophy, and sets aside the pervasive (and pernicious) requirement for exceptionless generalizations while relating his account to interconnections between the concepts of person, substance, agency, and causation.
- Resource Type:
- Book
- Identifier:
- 10.1007/978-3-030-21675-7, 978-3-030-21675-7
- Campus Tesim:
- Fullerton
- Department:
- Department of Philosophy
- Creator:
- McFee, Graham
- Description:
- Wittgenstein on Mind, Meaning and Context: Seven Essays elaborates a distinctive perspective on the later philosophy of Ludwig Wittgenstein, exploring a number of themes from his work, sometimes addressing particular issues, sometimes responding to criticisms, for instance those of Michael Dummett, or considering Wittgenstein in relation to, for example, ideas from Friedrich Waismann. Taken together, they extend the contextualist, 'therapeutic' reading of Wittgenstein developed by Graham McFee (following Gordon Baker) in How To Do Philosophy (2015), and include a kind of thematic introduction to McFee's work on Wittgenstein. The essays include reflections on Wittgenstein's stylistic concerns, and a consideration of the principle of publication of posthumous material as well as the basis for a scholarly consideration of Wittgenstein's flirtation with verificationism, and of his account of simplicity in mathematics. With one exception they are previously unpublished.
- Resource Type:
- Book
- Identifier:
- 9780578436609
- Campus Tesim:
- Fullerton
- Department:
- Department of Philosophy
- Creator:
- McFee, Graham
- Description:
- This book is a further major intervention into the philosophical aesthetics of dance by a philosopher who has devoted much of his professional career to the consideration of dance. It is intended for the interested general reader as well as the postgraduate student. What discussions from philosophy should be brought to the esthetics of dance? Approaches to philosophical aesthetics for dance should consider the various agencies of dance-maker (the choreographer), dance-instantiator (the dancer), and observer and commentator on dances (dance-audiences, but also dance critics). Here, Graham McFee builds on his previous works (Understanding Dance [Routledge, 1992] and The Philosophical Aesthetics of Dance [Dance Books, 2011]) to offer a framework for philosophical investigation of dance aesthetics drawing on concepts from the philosophy of action crucial for making sense of artworks, especially in performing arts such as dance: meaning, intending, action. In addressing such framework issues, this text is suitable for introducing philosophy to relative beginners, drawing on an interest in dance-as-art. It displays the nuanced practice of philosophical debate via the delineation and exemplification of philosophical positions through criticism of others, and through responding to criticism. A focused range of reference offers readers an opportunity to expand or to substantiate the conclusions drawn and arguments provided, in the context of examples of dance practice and theory: for instance, in the claims of neuroscience as well as the dance-criticism of John Martin and the dance-making of Twyla Tharp.
- Resource Type:
- Book
- Identifier:
- 9781852731786
- Campus Tesim:
- Fullerton
- Department:
- Department of Philosophy