The Philosophy of Marjorie Grene

by Auxier , Randall E.; Hahn, Lewis Edwin

• ISBN13: 9780812695267
• ISBN10: 0812695267
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-01-06
• Publisher: Open Court

Summary

Professor Grene is the 29th subject in a series that includes Albert Einstein, John Dewey, Jean-Paul Sartre, and Bertrand Russell. This book includes photographs, 25 critical essays by Grene’s distinguished peers — and her biting replies. She is known for her work — and her controversial views — in several areas including the philosophy of law, anthropology, and biology.

Table of Contents

Frontispiece	iv
General Introduction to the Library of Living Philosophers	vii
Founder's General Introduction to the Library of Living Philosophers	ix
Acknowledgments	xii
Preface	xvii
PART ONE: Intellectual Autobiography of Marjorie Grene	1	(28)
Sample of Grene's Handwriting	2	(1)
Intellectual Autobiography of Marjorie Grene	3	(26)
PART TWO: Descriptive and Critical Essays on the Philosophy of Marjorie Grene, with replies	29	(538)
I. Persons and Knowledge
On Persons and Knowledge: Marjorie Grene and Michael Polanyi	31	(32)
Phil Mullins
Reply to Phil Mullins	61	(2)
The Contextual Human Person: Reflections on the Philosophy of Marjorie Grene	63	(20)
Jacquelyn Ann K. Kegley
Reply to Jacquelyn Ann K. Kegley	79	(4)
Marjorie Grene's Philosophical Naturalism	83	(20)
Helen E. Longino
Reply to Helen E. Longino	99	(4)
The Future of Human Nature: Marjorie Grene and the Idea of a Philosophical Anthropology	103	(26)
Richard Schacht
Reply to Richard Schacht	125	(4)
Perception, Conception, and the Limits of the Direct Theory	129	(22)
Peter Machamer
Lisa Osbeck
Reply to Peter Machamer and Lisa Osbeck	147	(4)
Agency and Our Tacit Sense of Things	151	(26)
Michael Luntley
Reply to Michael Luntley	173	(4)
Persons, Minds, and ``The Specter of Consciousness''	177	(22)
Anthony N. Perovich, Jr.
Reply to Anthony N. Perovich, Jr.	194	(5)
Persons, Minds, and Consciousness	199	(26)
David M. Rosenthal
Reply to David M. Rosenthal	221	(4)
II. Philosophy of Biology
Reflections on the Species Problem: What Marjorie Grene Can Teach Us about a Perennial Issue	225	(34)
Phillip R. Sloan
Reply to Phillip R. Sloan	256	(3)
A Portrait of Biology	259	(26)
David L. Hull
Reply to David L. Hull	279	(6)
Philosophical Naturalism Without Naturalized Philosophy: Aristotelian and Darwinian Themes in Marjorie Grene's Philosophy of Biology	285	(30)
David J. Depew
Reply to David J. Depew	310	(5)
Hierarchy: Theory and Praxis in Evolutionary Biology	315	(24)
Niles Eldredge
Reply to Niles Eldredge	335	(4)
``Historical Realism,'' ``Contextual Objectivity,'' and Changing Concepts of the Gene	339	(26)
Richard M. Burian
Reply to Richard M. Burian	361	(4)
The Telic Character of Life: Marjorie Grene on the Oddness of Living Things	365	(16)
Eugenie Gatens-Robinson
Reply to Eugenie Gatens-Robinson	378	(3)
A Note on Time and Biology	381	(16)
Hans-Jorg Rheinberger
Reokt To Hans-Jorg Rheinberger	394	(3)
``The Historicity of Nature?'' ``Everything That Is Might Have Been Different?''	397	(20)
John Beatty
Reply to John Beatty	412	(5)
III. Studies in the History of Philosophy
Descartes, Suarez, and the Theory of Distinctions	417	(34)
Richard Glauser
Reply to Richard Glauser	446	(5)
The Ultimate Incoherence? Descarte and the Passions	451	(20)
John Cottingham
Reply to John Cottingham	466	(5)
Explanation, Consciousness, and Cartesian Dualism	471	(20)
Desmond M. Clarke
Reply to Desmond M. Clarke	486	(5)
Pascal and Descartes	491	(24)
Kathleen Blamey
Reply to Kathleen Blamey	510	(5)
Handmaiden, Nursemaid, or Sister to Philosophy? The Role of the History of Philosophy Today	515	(22)
Helen Hattab
Reply to Helen Hattab	533	(4)
On Grene's Presentation of Heidegger	537	(14)
Charles M. Sherover
Reply to Charles M. Sherover	547	(4)
Grene on Sartre	551	(16)
David Detmer
Reply to David Detmer	565	(2)
PART THREE: Bibliography of the Writings of Marjorie Grene	567	(14)
Index	581