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Human Nature and Natural Knowledge

Essays Presented to Marjorie Grene on the Occasion of Her Seventy-Fifth Birthday

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  • © 1986

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Editors:
  1. Alan Donagan

    1. California Institute of Technology, USA

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  2. Anthony N. Perovich

    1. Hope College, USA

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  3. Michael V. Wedin

    1. University of California at Davis, USA

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Part of the book series: Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science (BSPS, volume 89)

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Table of contents (21 chapters)

  1. Rencontre

    1. The Worst Excess of Cartesian Dualism

      • Alan Donagan
      Pages 313-325

    2. Genius, Scientific Method, and the Stability of Synthetic A Priori Principles

      • Anthony N. Perovich Jr.
      Pages 327-339

    3. Should Hume Be Answered or Bypassed?

      • Richard Rorty
      Pages 341-352

  2. Reflections

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 353-353
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    2. In and On Friendship

      • Marjorie Grene
      Pages 355-368

    3. The Professional Activities of Marjorie Grene

      • Alan Donagan, Anthony N. Perovich Jr., Michael V. Wedin
      Pages 369-370

    4. The Publications of Marjorie Grene

      • Alan Donagan, Anthony N. Perovich Jr., Michael V. Wedin
      Pages 371-374

  3. Back Matter

    Pages 375-381
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About this book

Everybody knows Marjorie Grene. In part, this is because she is a presence: her vividness, her energy, her acute intelligence, her critical edge, her quick humor, her love of talking, her passion for philosophy - all combine to make her inevitable. Marjorie Grene cannot be missed or overlooked or undervalued. She is there - Dasein personified. It is an honor to present a Festschrift to her. It honors philosophy to honor her. Professor Grene has shaped American philosophy in her distinc­ tive way (or, we should say, in distinctive ways). She was among the first to introduce Heidegger's thought ... critically ... to the American and English philosophical community, first in her early essay in the Journal of Philosophy (1938), and then in her book Heidegger (1957). She has written as well on Jaspers and Marcel, as in the Kenyon Review (1957). Grene's book Dreadful Freedom (1948) was one of the most important and influential introductions to Existentialism, and her works on Sartre have been among the most profound and insightful studies of his philosophy from the earliest to the later writings: her book Sartre (1973), and her papers 'L'Homme est une passion inutile: Sartre and Heideg­ ger' in the Kenyon Review (1947), 'Sartre's Theory of the Emo­ tions' in Yale French Studies (1948), 'Sartre: A Philosophical Study' in Mind (1969), 'The Aesthetic Dialogue of Sartre and Merleau-Ponty' in the initial volume of the Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology (1970), 'On First Reading L'Idiot de

Editors and Affiliations

  • California Institute of Technology, USA

    Alan Donagan

  • Hope College, USA

    Anthony N. Perovich

  • University of California at Davis, USA

    Michael V. Wedin

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Human Nature and Natural Knowledge

  • Book Subtitle: Essays Presented to Marjorie Grene on the Occasion of Her Seventy-Fifth Birthday

  • Editors: Alan Donagan, Anthony N. Perovich, Michael V. Wedin

  • Series Title: Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-5349-9

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: D. Reidel Publishing Company, Dordrecht, Holland 1986

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-90-277-1974-4Published: 31 December 1985

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-94-010-8859-6Published: 18 November 2011

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-009-5349-9Published: 06 December 2012

  • Series ISSN: 0068-0346

  • Series E-ISSN: 2214-7942

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVII, 381

  • Topics: Philosophy of Science, History, general, Philosophy of the Social Sciences

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