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Marianne Janack
Hamilton College, Philosophy, Faculty Member
- American Philosophy, Epistemology, Feminist Philosophy, Philosophical Psychology, Philosophy of Education, Philosophy of Literature, and 20 moreNature Culture, Identity (Philosophy), Philosophy, Literary Non-Fiction, Critical Theory, Political Philosophy, Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Science, History of Science, Philosophy Of Language, Charles S. Peirce, Truth, Charles Taylor, Electron Microscopy, Richard Rorty, Theories Of Truth, Ian Hacking, William James, Wittgenstein, and Enactivismedit
- I am presently working on a collection of creative non-fiction essays that deal with philosophical themes and a book ... moreI am presently working on a collection of creative non-fiction essays that deal with philosophical themes and a book on philosophical writing style and metaphilosophical themes, based on my Phi Beta Kappa lectures in 2018.
My book on experience was published by Stanford in November 2012; you will find the first and the final chapters of that book under "Papers". I also have an edited volume titled Feminist Interpretations of Richard Rorty, published by Penn State University Press. You can read other papers and book suggestions at https://hamiltoncs.org/janack/
Under the heading "papers" you'll find the introduction to the Rorty book, and the list of contributors. You'll also find some of my other articles. You can look at my website for some of my writing, as well as my blog about books. https://hamiltoncs.org/janack/
Under creative nonfiction, you'll find my creative nonfiction.edit
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... Commentary on Raja Halwani's “Love and Virtue” 305 Nevertheless, no matter how erotic the attention I pay a passer-by, I think we would ... 306 MARIANNE JANACK racteristics of love, is only really an intense, but satisfying... more
... Commentary on Raja Halwani's “Love and Virtue” 305 Nevertheless, no matter how erotic the attention I pay a passer-by, I think we would ... 306 MARIANNE JANACK racteristics of love, is only really an intense, but satisfying sexual relationship (she means nothing to me, honey!). ...
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a discussion of the rhetorical appeal to 'rocks' as a way of talking about realism. presented at the Rorty conference in Sept. 2016. a longer version is forthcoming in The Ethics, Epistemology, and Politics of Richard... more
a discussion of the rhetorical appeal to 'rocks' as a way of talking about realism. presented at the Rorty conference in Sept. 2016. a longer version is forthcoming in The Ethics, Epistemology, and Politics of Richard Rorty, edited by Giancarlo Marchetti.
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This article takes up Rorty’s advice to feminists to abandon philosophizing (and appeals to truth and reality) in favor of using language to create a new logical space for feminist politics. The argument focuses on the rhetorical role of... more
This article takes up Rorty’s advice to feminists to abandon philosophizing (and appeals to truth and reality) in favor of using language to create a new logical space for feminist politics. The argument focuses on the rhetorical role of appeals to truth and reality, the role of linguistic innovation in social change, and the feminist critique of Rorty’s use of the “prophetic voice” in his discussion of feminist politics.
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an encyclopedia article about the general themes of contemporary feminist epistemologies
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Rorty claims in Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature (1980) that the Carte sian picture of the mind as mirror of reality has outworn its use, and he sets out for twentieth-century thinkers a new picture and a new vocabulary. Rorty draws on... more
Rorty claims in Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature (1980) that the Carte sian picture of the mind as mirror of reality has outworn its use, and he sets out for twentieth-century thinkers a new picture and a new vocabulary. Rorty draws on three representatives of what he calls the " ...
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In this paper I argue that the distinction between epistemic privilege and epistemic authority is an important one for feminist epistemologists who are sympathetic to feminist standpoint theory, I argue that, while the first concept is... more
In this paper I argue that the distinction between epistemic privilege and epistemic authority is an important one for feminist epistemologists who are sympathetic to feminist standpoint theory, I argue that, while the first concept is elusive, the second is really the important one for a successful feminist standpoint project.
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This paper addresses the complex associations of the concept of "home," a site of both nostalgia for what is no longer and a desire for rootedness in the present. Where once an Enlightenment ideal of "extending the embrace of 'us'"... more
This paper addresses the complex associations of the concept of "home," a site of both nostalgia for what is no longer and a desire for rootedness in the present. Where once an Enlightenment ideal of "extending the embrace of 'us'" undergirded Western liberalism, such an ideal has come to be challenged by appeals to "the homeland" or a nation state. The paper argues that Rorty's particular views about the notion of home are contradictory. He embraces an ethnocentrism that acknowledges our inability to truly escape our national or regional values and valorizes a cosmopolitanism that demands a rootless interest in expansive community free from geographical borders. An understanding of migration requires us to move beyond an interest in welcoming others, toward a greater understanding regarding the motivations behind leaving homes and homelands for security in foreign lands.
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this is an essay that appeared in Alex Rosenberg and Lee Macintyre's collection, Routledge Companion to the Social Sciences... more
this is an essay that appeared in Alex Rosenberg and Lee Macintyre's collection, Routledge Companion to the Social Sciences (https://smile.amazon.com/Routledge-Companion-Philosophy-Science-Companions/dp/1138825751/ref=smi_www_rco2_go_smi_g3499214142?_encoding=UTF8&%2AVersion%2A=1&%2Aentries%2A=0&ie=UTF8) as Feminism in Social Research. It is a discussion of the question, "What is a woman? And how do we count them?"
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"Experience Recaptured"
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published in Feminist Metaphysics: Explorations in the Ontology of Sex, Gender, and the Self, Charlotte Witt, editor
http://www.springer.com/philosophy/book/978-90-481-3782-4
http://www.springer.com/philosophy/book/978-90-481-3782-4
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philosophical humor, science fiction, and fiction
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a discussion of the rhetorical appeal to 'rocks' as a way of talking about realism. presented at the Rorty conference in Sept. 2016. a longer version is forthcoming in The Ethics, Epistemology, and Politics of Richard Rorty, edited by... more
a discussion of the rhetorical appeal to 'rocks' as a way of talking about realism. presented at the Rorty conference in Sept. 2016. a longer version is forthcoming in The Ethics, Epistemology, and Politics of Richard Rorty, edited by Giancarlo Marchetti.
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presented at the meeting of the Wilfrid Sellars Society at the APA in January 2016. This paper argues that Rorty's insistence on eliding the distinction between using and interpreting texts should lead us to think of his Sellars not as an... more
presented at the meeting of the Wilfrid Sellars Society at the APA in January 2016. This paper argues that Rorty's insistence on eliding the distinction between using and interpreting texts should lead us to think of his Sellars not as an historical person, but as a fictional character, and discusses what role Rorty's Sellars plays in his development of a synoptic and revolutionary approach to philosophy of mind.
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Conference in Madrid, May 2015.
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philosophical creative writing, including personal essays, science fiction, poetry, short stories, meditations
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Creative non-fiction about dualism, identity, and death. Published in Stone Canoe Issue 8: http://www.stonecanoejournal.org/SC8PR.html
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a literary nonfiction piece that explores the politics of fairytales, marriage, and getting old
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logic, desire, metaphysics: my first published piece of literary nonfiction
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thoughts about philosophy, pragmatism, and learning
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an investigation of the relationship between happiness, personal identity, and memory.
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about the sociability of reading
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a personal essay, about feminist philosophy and teaching. Given as an paper in a Festschrift for Wanda Warren Berry and Marilyn Thie at Colgate University