Presenters and Reading Lists for Sessions

Updated: 7-2-03

Speaker	Topic(s)	Session Readings

Daniel Dombrowski (Seattle University)	Process Metaphysics	Session 1: Divine Beauty: The Aesthetics of Charles Hartshorne Reading 1 Reading 2 Session 2: Rorty v. Hartshorne on Metaphysics
Bruce Wilshire (Rutgers University)	Conversations with Bruce Wilshire on His Recent Books	Wild Hunger: The Primal Roots of Modern Addiction (Roman & Littlefield, 1998). The Primal Roots of American Philosophy (Penn. State. U. Press, 2000) Fashionable Nihilism: A Critique of Analytic Philosophy (SUNY Press, 2002)
Mark Johnson (University of Oregon)	Pragmatism and Cognitive Science	Link to Readings
Ken Ketner (Texas Tech University)	The Question of Autobiography: By What Method Shall We Interpret Our Own Life (or, Another's, for that Matter)?	Primary Text: Kenneth Ketner, HIS GLASSY ESSENCE (Vanderbilt University Press). Chapter 1 available at: http://www.wyttynys.net Recommended reading: A THIEF OF PEIRCE, edited P. Samway, S.J. (University Press of Mississippi) CHANCE, LOVE, AND LOGIC, edited by M. Cohen (University of Nebraska Press) Chapter on Peirce, in CLASSICAL AMERICAN PHILOSOPHY, ed. J. Stuhr (Oxford University Press) REASONING AND THE LOGIC OF THINGS, edited K.L. Ketner, with commentary by H. Putnam, (Harvard Uniiversity Press) SEMIOTIC AND SIGNIFICS, ed. C. Hardwick, Peirce Studies no. 8, Second edition. Sold by Arisbebooks at: http://www.arisbeassociates.com
Joseph Orosco (Oregon State University)	"Latino/a Conceptions of Race and Ethnicity"	Jose Vasconcelos, The Cosmic Race/La Raza Cosmica, translated by Didier T. Jaen, (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1997)
Doug Anderson (Penn State University)	"Philosophy Americana: The Culture of American Philosophy in American Culture(s)"	These are brief overviews of what the readings will be. Session 1 Session 2 Here are the full texts Reading 1 Reading 2 Reading 3 Reading 4 Reading 5
Michael Eldridge (University of NC, Charlotte) Robert B. Talisse (Vanderbilt University)	"Sidney Hook: Public Intellectual"	Readings
Charlene Haddock Seigfried (Purdue University) Hans Seigfried	"Social Inquiry: Jane Addams & John Dewey."	Readings
John Danisi (Wagner College)	"James and Dewey: On the Notion of the Self."	William James, "The Automaton Theory," in The Principles of Psychology (New York: Dover Publications), I, pp. 128-144. William James, "The Consciousness of Self," in The Principles of Psychology (New York: Dover Publications), I, pp. 291-305, 334-371. John Dewey, "The Vanishing Subject in the Psychology of James," Journal of Philosophy, XL (1940), pp. 589-599. Reprinted in Problems of Men, pp. 396-409.
James Pawelski (Vanderbilt University)	"Pragmatism and Positive Psychology"	Readings
Joseph Orosco (Oregon State University)	"Latino/a Conceptions of Race and Ethnicity"	Linda Martin Alcoff, "Is Latina/o Identity a Racial Identity?", in Hispanics/Latinos in the United States, edited by Jorge Gracia and Pablo De Greiff, (New York: Routledge, 2000), pp. 23-44. Eduardo Mendieta, "The Making of New Peoples: Hispanizing Race", in Hispanics/Latinos in the United States, pp. 45-59.
Victor Kestenbaum (Boston University)	"John Dewey and the Transcendent"	Session 2: Dewey and Frost on Facts and Infinities --------------------------------------- For another view on Kestenbaum's position:
Jennifer Welchman (University of Alberta)	"Dewey and Character-Based Ethics"	Session #1: Dewey, John and Tufts, J.H., "The Virtues," Ethics, 1st edition, MW 5:359-380 " " , "Approbation, the Standard and Virtue, " Ethics, 2nd ed., LW 7: 235-261 Dewey, John, "Three Independent Factors in Morals," in LW 5:279-288. Session #2: Dewey, John, "Education as Growth," Democracy and Education, MW 9: 46-58 J. Welchman. "The Virtues and Human Development: A Pragmatic Approach"
Michael Eldridge, University of NC, Charlotte Robert B. Talisse, Vanderbilt University	"Sidney Hook: Public Intellectual"	Sessions and Readings