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Nice article. Good introductions. -- Blainster ( talk) 03:46, 12 September 2009 (UTC)
I agree. This article fills a big gap. The Tetrast ( talk) 03:51, 21 October 2009 (UTC).
From the article:
James, along with Peirce, saw pragmatism as a radical new way to think and resolve dilemmas. In his 1910 Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking
That sounds contradictory.
Pragmatism does seem to involve some radical innovation in philosophy, with its sense of meaning as prospective, but, right in the quote, James calls it "a new name for some old ways of thinking," and meanwhile Peirce says (CP 5.11):
Any philosophical doctrine that should be completely new could hardly fail to prove completely false; but the rivulets at the head of the river of pragmatism are easily traced back to almost any desired antiquity.
Socrates bathed in these waters. Aristotle rejoices when he can find them. ....
. The radicalism may be in terms of (CP 5.12) its "conscious adoption" and "the elaboration of it into a method in aid of philosophic inquiry".
In short, the quoted sentence seems to need a rewrite but I'm unsure how to proceed. The Tetrast ( talk) 03:51, 21 October 2009 (UTC)
Update: I've given it a shot, replacing "as a radical new way to think and resolve dilemmas" with "as embodying familiar attitudes elaborated into radical new philosophical method of thinking and resolving dilemmas" The Tetrast ( talk) 17:27, 23 October 2009 (UTC)
Once again, a problem with Ayn Rand and philosophy. An IP address has recently removed the paragraph which contains a discussion of Ayn Rand and her work, in addition to removed her picture from the page, citing the fact that "Ayn Rand is not recognized by academia and so is not philosophy". I reverted it, referring to the change as "drastic," and asked that all future such revisions be discussed on the talk page. The same IP address quickly reverted my revert. The issue at hand appears to be whether or not Ayn Rand should be mentioned in an article on American philosophy. I think she should be. It would seem to me to be highly unusual for an article on American philosophy to entirely omit Rand, regardless of her stature in academia. At best (or worse), something should be said (from an academic perspective) about her work. What does everyone else think? JEN9841 ( talk) 04:03, 1 February 2010 (UTC)
My answer is: Basically, both. 129.59.185.6 changed the image caption for Santayana from "George Santayana, the most famous Hispanic-American philosopher" to "George Santayana, the most famous Spanish-American philosopher", and in the edit summary said: "he was not Hispanic, but spanish." However, "Hispanic" is usually taken to include, without being limited to, "Spanish"; i.e., all Spanish are Hispanic but not vice versa. In other words, the image caption had been saying that Santayana was the most famous US philosopher from anywhere in the whole Spanish-speaking world, and 129.59.185.6's edit now has decreased that to Santayana's being the most famous US philosopher from Spain, just one part of that world. The article already says that Santayana was "Spanish-born", so, I'm inclined to revert 129.59.185.6's good-faith edit. (Actually, more of an issue is that of the sense in which Santayana is describable as one of the philosophical pragmatists, but I'm not prepared to explore that issue currently, but I hope to get to it.) The Tetrast ( talk) 15:49, 27 April 2010 (UTC).
Somebody has restored the Rawls image but removed the Nozick image. It's starting to seem silly. What's up?
Both images have been questioned. | Both images remain in main articles. | Both were in Harvard Gazette | Google image searches on |
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There is a deletion request only for the Nozick image.
The Nozick image was also used by the Britannica (which says that it's from the Harvard U news office) and also by The Telegraph. The Rawls image was used also by the NY Times. The Rawls image appears at a number of academic sites.
Suggestions? The Tetrast ( talk) 22:45, 28 April 2010 (UTC). Tweaks The Tetrast ( talk) 22:54, 28 April 2010 (UTC).
I am starting to have second thoughts about the inclusion of Alasdair MacIntyre in this article. It is true that he has taught in America for very long, and he is largely responsible for the resurgence of virtue ethics in the United States. Nonetheless, I still believe his treatment in this article is too long. I think somehow we could strike a compromise, where his treatment is not as long as it is now, but we still mention his status in American philosophy. This is a judgment call, and I would just like to hear others' thoughts and opinions. JEN9841 ( talk) 16:36, 2 August 2010 (UTC)
Jewish and other refugees from Nazi Germany such as Hannah Arendt, Leo Strauss, and Theodor Adorno made huge contributions to American philosophical life. They brought with them philosophical knowledge from continental Europe: the critical theorists contributed to the American social sciences and the Straussians established one of modern America’s most important schools in political philosophy. The European brain drain during the early and mid twentieth century greatly impacted intellectual life in both continental Europe and the United States, causing the American university and American intellectual life to take on a leading role. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 213.93.80.249 ( talk) 00:36, 20 December 2010 (UTC)
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lacks a "core of defining features, American Philosophy can nevertheless be seen as both reflecting and shaping collective American identity over the history of the nation." Is unintentionally hilarious. Hopefully at some point somebody will be able to do better than that. 72.228.189.184 ( talk) 19:28, 1 April 2012 (UTC)
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If this page is one that talks about American philosophers, then I see no reason to exclude Jameson from the list of contemporary philosophers since I would say that he's pretty influential as a thinker. If it's about the philosophy of America as a nation-state or American politics, I see why exclusion would make sense but I'm not sure. Thoughts? Birb God ( talk) 22:42, 24 December 2020 (UTC)
As far as I can tell, this article isn’t about a distinct sort of philosophy that is “American Philosophy”, so I wonder whether it would be more appropriate to name the page ‘Philosophy in America’. Open to thoughts (i.e. let me know if I’m way off for any reason). — HTGS ( talk) 23:19, 3 August 2022 (UTC)
Ciao fellow Wikipedians -- just a quick note to indicate that I have included a small section illustrating the attempts of various scholars in America to conduct additional research into the evolution of phenomenalism-- which first emerged in Europe in a related form within George Berkeley's subjective idealism and Emmanuel Kant's epistemology. As an example, I've included a link for the internationally recognized work of Colin Murray Turbayne which was undertaken at the University of Rochester during the mid-20th century. No doubt there are others who contributed as well, so this might be an interesting first attempt at describing this area of research in America. I hope this is permitted. Happy editing and thanks in advance for your consideration! With best wishes to all 160.72.80.178 ( talk) 22:40, 8 February 2023 (UTC)NHPL
in order to resolve the problematic Cartesian duality of "mind" and "matter" in the post-Kantian erastruck me as odd since Cartesianism is pre-Kantian. Rescher wrote, "As McDowell sees it the Cartesian separation of mind from matter is profoundly wrong"—which is true enough, but doesn't have much to do with the post-Kantian era, and Rescher didn't claim that it does. So I rephrased that sentence based on the first sentence of Rescher's chapter. Note, however, that the kind of thinking Rescher discusses is, as he says, "grounded in nineteenth-century German post-Hegelian idealism", which is very different from a phenomenalism inspired by Berkeley, as Rescher noted in the last two paragraphs of his chapter where he mentioned two thinkers close to Berkeley and called one of them "substantially detached from the sort of position we have here considering". So there's quite a disconnect between various positions called "idealist". I also removed the word "noteworthy", which is WP:EDITORIALIZING (if it wasn't noteworthy we wouldn't include it). Biogeographist ( talk) 22:25, 9 February 2023 (UTC)
Biogeographist, I'm just going by the sources. The two I cited, Mark Kurlansky's 1968: The Year that Rocked the World and Oxford University Press's Understanding Society: A Survey of Modern Social Theory, are clear about Marcuse's prominent role in the US among the philosophers of the Frankfurt School. I haven't been presented with evidence to convince me against the statement.
The
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, which you cited, states in its entry on Marcuse: The Frankfurt School has had an enormous impact on philosophy as well as social and political theory in the United States and around the world. In the 1960s Marcuse ascended to prominence and became one of the best known philosophers and social theorists in the world. He was often referred to as the Guru of the New Left (a title which he rejected). During the late 1970s through the 1990s, Marcuse’s popularity began to wane as he was eclipsed by second and third generation critical theorists, postmodernism, Rawlsian liberalism, and his former colleagues Theodor Adorno and Walter Benjamin. In recent years there has been a new surge of interest in Marcuse.
To me, this supports the prominence of Marcuse too.
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"Critical theory," the umbrella for a whole spectrum of positions associated with the Frankfurt Institute for Social Research, has finally, after long delay, an opportunity to become an integral part of English-speaking culture. Comprised of philosophers, literary critics, sociologists, psychologists, economists and political scientists – of whom Theodor W. Adorno, Walter Benjamin, Erich Fromm, Max Horkheimer, Otto Kirchheimer, Leo Lowenthal, Herbert Marcuse, Franz Neumann and Friedrich Pollock are the major figures – the Frankfurt School came into existence in the mid-1920s as an association of Left intellectuals that formed the privately funded Institute for Social Research.
Marcuse was the most influential of the Frankfurt School critical theorists on North American intellectual culture—that's enough to support the statement right there. As for the claim that the source does not provide evidence, we can presume that the impact comes from his relationship with the New Left and the broad popularity of his books, especially One-Dimensional Man, as attested to by Kurlanskly and others, ( Bryan Magee has also noted that Marcuse's prose was much more accessible than his colleagues', but that's a different story). Besides—per WP:NOR—it's not our place as editors to question the evidence of the Oxford University Press source and thereby engage of analysis of it if it similar claims are not already questioned in reliable secondary sources.
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Nice article. Good introductions. -- Blainster ( talk) 03:46, 12 September 2009 (UTC)
I agree. This article fills a big gap. The Tetrast ( talk) 03:51, 21 October 2009 (UTC).
From the article:
James, along with Peirce, saw pragmatism as a radical new way to think and resolve dilemmas. In his 1910 Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking
That sounds contradictory.
Pragmatism does seem to involve some radical innovation in philosophy, with its sense of meaning as prospective, but, right in the quote, James calls it "a new name for some old ways of thinking," and meanwhile Peirce says (CP 5.11):
Any philosophical doctrine that should be completely new could hardly fail to prove completely false; but the rivulets at the head of the river of pragmatism are easily traced back to almost any desired antiquity.
Socrates bathed in these waters. Aristotle rejoices when he can find them. ....
. The radicalism may be in terms of (CP 5.12) its "conscious adoption" and "the elaboration of it into a method in aid of philosophic inquiry".
In short, the quoted sentence seems to need a rewrite but I'm unsure how to proceed. The Tetrast ( talk) 03:51, 21 October 2009 (UTC)
Update: I've given it a shot, replacing "as a radical new way to think and resolve dilemmas" with "as embodying familiar attitudes elaborated into radical new philosophical method of thinking and resolving dilemmas" The Tetrast ( talk) 17:27, 23 October 2009 (UTC)
Once again, a problem with Ayn Rand and philosophy. An IP address has recently removed the paragraph which contains a discussion of Ayn Rand and her work, in addition to removed her picture from the page, citing the fact that "Ayn Rand is not recognized by academia and so is not philosophy". I reverted it, referring to the change as "drastic," and asked that all future such revisions be discussed on the talk page. The same IP address quickly reverted my revert. The issue at hand appears to be whether or not Ayn Rand should be mentioned in an article on American philosophy. I think she should be. It would seem to me to be highly unusual for an article on American philosophy to entirely omit Rand, regardless of her stature in academia. At best (or worse), something should be said (from an academic perspective) about her work. What does everyone else think? JEN9841 ( talk) 04:03, 1 February 2010 (UTC)
My answer is: Basically, both. 129.59.185.6 changed the image caption for Santayana from "George Santayana, the most famous Hispanic-American philosopher" to "George Santayana, the most famous Spanish-American philosopher", and in the edit summary said: "he was not Hispanic, but spanish." However, "Hispanic" is usually taken to include, without being limited to, "Spanish"; i.e., all Spanish are Hispanic but not vice versa. In other words, the image caption had been saying that Santayana was the most famous US philosopher from anywhere in the whole Spanish-speaking world, and 129.59.185.6's edit now has decreased that to Santayana's being the most famous US philosopher from Spain, just one part of that world. The article already says that Santayana was "Spanish-born", so, I'm inclined to revert 129.59.185.6's good-faith edit. (Actually, more of an issue is that of the sense in which Santayana is describable as one of the philosophical pragmatists, but I'm not prepared to explore that issue currently, but I hope to get to it.) The Tetrast ( talk) 15:49, 27 April 2010 (UTC).
Somebody has restored the Rawls image but removed the Nozick image. It's starting to seem silly. What's up?
Both images have been questioned. | Both images remain in main articles. | Both were in Harvard Gazette | Google image searches on |
Rawls image file | John Rawls | Rawls ("File photo by Jane Reed") | Rawls |
Nozick image file | Robert Nozick | Nozick | Nozick |
There is a deletion request only for the Nozick image.
The Nozick image was also used by the Britannica (which says that it's from the Harvard U news office) and also by The Telegraph. The Rawls image was used also by the NY Times. The Rawls image appears at a number of academic sites.
Suggestions? The Tetrast ( talk) 22:45, 28 April 2010 (UTC). Tweaks The Tetrast ( talk) 22:54, 28 April 2010 (UTC).
I am starting to have second thoughts about the inclusion of Alasdair MacIntyre in this article. It is true that he has taught in America for very long, and he is largely responsible for the resurgence of virtue ethics in the United States. Nonetheless, I still believe his treatment in this article is too long. I think somehow we could strike a compromise, where his treatment is not as long as it is now, but we still mention his status in American philosophy. This is a judgment call, and I would just like to hear others' thoughts and opinions. JEN9841 ( talk) 16:36, 2 August 2010 (UTC)
Jewish and other refugees from Nazi Germany such as Hannah Arendt, Leo Strauss, and Theodor Adorno made huge contributions to American philosophical life. They brought with them philosophical knowledge from continental Europe: the critical theorists contributed to the American social sciences and the Straussians established one of modern America’s most important schools in political philosophy. The European brain drain during the early and mid twentieth century greatly impacted intellectual life in both continental Europe and the United States, causing the American university and American intellectual life to take on a leading role. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 213.93.80.249 ( talk) 00:36, 20 December 2010 (UTC)
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lacks a "core of defining features, American Philosophy can nevertheless be seen as both reflecting and shaping collective American identity over the history of the nation." Is unintentionally hilarious. Hopefully at some point somebody will be able to do better than that. 72.228.189.184 ( talk) 19:28, 1 April 2012 (UTC)
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If this page is one that talks about American philosophers, then I see no reason to exclude Jameson from the list of contemporary philosophers since I would say that he's pretty influential as a thinker. If it's about the philosophy of America as a nation-state or American politics, I see why exclusion would make sense but I'm not sure. Thoughts? Birb God ( talk) 22:42, 24 December 2020 (UTC)
As far as I can tell, this article isn’t about a distinct sort of philosophy that is “American Philosophy”, so I wonder whether it would be more appropriate to name the page ‘Philosophy in America’. Open to thoughts (i.e. let me know if I’m way off for any reason). — HTGS ( talk) 23:19, 3 August 2022 (UTC)
Ciao fellow Wikipedians -- just a quick note to indicate that I have included a small section illustrating the attempts of various scholars in America to conduct additional research into the evolution of phenomenalism-- which first emerged in Europe in a related form within George Berkeley's subjective idealism and Emmanuel Kant's epistemology. As an example, I've included a link for the internationally recognized work of Colin Murray Turbayne which was undertaken at the University of Rochester during the mid-20th century. No doubt there are others who contributed as well, so this might be an interesting first attempt at describing this area of research in America. I hope this is permitted. Happy editing and thanks in advance for your consideration! With best wishes to all 160.72.80.178 ( talk) 22:40, 8 February 2023 (UTC)NHPL
in order to resolve the problematic Cartesian duality of "mind" and "matter" in the post-Kantian erastruck me as odd since Cartesianism is pre-Kantian. Rescher wrote, "As McDowell sees it the Cartesian separation of mind from matter is profoundly wrong"—which is true enough, but doesn't have much to do with the post-Kantian era, and Rescher didn't claim that it does. So I rephrased that sentence based on the first sentence of Rescher's chapter. Note, however, that the kind of thinking Rescher discusses is, as he says, "grounded in nineteenth-century German post-Hegelian idealism", which is very different from a phenomenalism inspired by Berkeley, as Rescher noted in the last two paragraphs of his chapter where he mentioned two thinkers close to Berkeley and called one of them "substantially detached from the sort of position we have here considering". So there's quite a disconnect between various positions called "idealist". I also removed the word "noteworthy", which is WP:EDITORIALIZING (if it wasn't noteworthy we wouldn't include it). Biogeographist ( talk) 22:25, 9 February 2023 (UTC)
Biogeographist, I'm just going by the sources. The two I cited, Mark Kurlansky's 1968: The Year that Rocked the World and Oxford University Press's Understanding Society: A Survey of Modern Social Theory, are clear about Marcuse's prominent role in the US among the philosophers of the Frankfurt School. I haven't been presented with evidence to convince me against the statement.
The
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, which you cited, states in its entry on Marcuse: The Frankfurt School has had an enormous impact on philosophy as well as social and political theory in the United States and around the world. In the 1960s Marcuse ascended to prominence and became one of the best known philosophers and social theorists in the world. He was often referred to as the Guru of the New Left (a title which he rejected). During the late 1970s through the 1990s, Marcuse’s popularity began to wane as he was eclipsed by second and third generation critical theorists, postmodernism, Rawlsian liberalism, and his former colleagues Theodor Adorno and Walter Benjamin. In recent years there has been a new surge of interest in Marcuse.
To me, this supports the prominence of Marcuse too.
إيان (
talk) 13:19, 14 June 2023 (UTC)
"Critical theory," the umbrella for a whole spectrum of positions associated with the Frankfurt Institute for Social Research, has finally, after long delay, an opportunity to become an integral part of English-speaking culture. Comprised of philosophers, literary critics, sociologists, psychologists, economists and political scientists – of whom Theodor W. Adorno, Walter Benjamin, Erich Fromm, Max Horkheimer, Otto Kirchheimer, Leo Lowenthal, Herbert Marcuse, Franz Neumann and Friedrich Pollock are the major figures – the Frankfurt School came into existence in the mid-1920s as an association of Left intellectuals that formed the privately funded Institute for Social Research.
Marcuse was the most influential of the Frankfurt School critical theorists on North American intellectual culture—that's enough to support the statement right there. As for the claim that the source does not provide evidence, we can presume that the impact comes from his relationship with the New Left and the broad popularity of his books, especially One-Dimensional Man, as attested to by Kurlanskly and others, ( Bryan Magee has also noted that Marcuse's prose was much more accessible than his colleagues', but that's a different story). Besides—per WP:NOR—it's not our place as editors to question the evidence of the Oxford University Press source and thereby engage of analysis of it if it similar claims are not already questioned in reliable secondary sources.