Knowledge, Mind and Reality : An Introduction by Early Twentieth-century American Women Philosophers

This book is the first volume featuring the work of American women philosophers in the first half of the twentieth century. It provides selected papers authored by Mary Whiton Calkins, Grace Andrus de Laguna, Grace Neal Dolson, Marjorie Glicksman Grene, Marjorie Silliman Harris, Thelma Zemo Lavine, Marie Collins Swabey, Ellen Bliss Talbot, Dorothy Walsh and Margaret Floy Washburn. The book also provides the historical and philosophical background to their work. The papers focus on the nature of philosophy, knowledge, the philosophy of science, the mind-matter nexus, the nature of time, and the question of freedom and the individual. The material is suitable for scholars, researchers and advanced philosophy students interested in (history of) philosophy; theories of knowledge; philosophy of science; mind, and reality.

Joel Katzav is an associate professor at the University of Queensland. His research is mainly in the philosophy of science, the history of twentieth-century philosophy and metaphysics. He is the author of many papers, including ‘Pluralism and peer review in philosophy’ (with Krist Vaesen), ‘Analytic philosophy, 125-1969: emergence, management and nature’, ‘Grace de Laguna’s analytic and speculative philosophy’ and ‘Issues in the theoretical foundations of climate science’. He edited (with Wendy S. Parker) ‘Assessing climate models: knowledge, values and policy’, a special edition of the European Journal for the Philosophy of Science.

Dorothy Rogers is a professor at Montclair State University in the U.S.  Her primary research is on women in the history of American philosophy, women’s/feminist social and political thought in the nineteenth century.  She has published articles about women philosophers in Hypatia and is the author or editor of books on women philosophers in the U.S., including Marietta Kies and Catharine Beecher. Her books, Women Philosophers: Education and Activism in Nineteenth-Century America and Women Philosophers: Entering Academia (1880–1920) were published with Bloomsbury in 2020

Krist Vaesen is an associate professor at Eindhoven University of Technology, the Netherlands. His principal research interests are the philosophy of science, the history of twentieth-century philosophy, and epistemology. He has, together with Joel Katzav, written on the history of analytic philosophy and of American philosophy of science. His work on evolutionary anthropology has been published in various prominent scientific and philosophy journals, including the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society and Biology & Philosophy.