Summer Institute in American Philosophy

At the University of Oregon
July 11-16, 2011

Summer Institute Reading Lists for Seminar Sessions

The institute has long been organized primarily around our Seminar sessions. These sessions are plenary sessions in which all attendeeds participate. So as to facilitate discussion, seminar leaders have asked that attendeeds prepare in advance for the sessions by reviewing the following readings. All readings are of course optional but strongly encouraged.

Pragmatist Social Science

Readings for Paul Taylor's session ("Du Bois and social theory"):

Du Bois (1905), "Sociology Hesitant"
Du Bois (1898), "The Study of the Negro Problems"
Ron Judy (2000), introduction to boundary 2 special issue on Du Bois
Earl Wright (2008), encyclopedia entry on American Sociology
Du Bois (1944), "My Evolving Program"

Readings for Jerry Rosiek's session ("A pragmatic imaginary in social science and the crisis of representation"):

John Dewey (1925), "The Development of American Pragmatism"
Jane Addams (1902), Democracy and Social Ethics excerpt (appended to Dewey file above)
Cornel West (1993), "Pragmatism and the Tragic" from Prophetic Thought in Postmodern Times

Readings for Paul Roth's session ("Ian Hacking and historiography: pastmaking, history, and naturalism"):

Paul Roth (2002), "Ways of Pastmaking"
Ian Hacking (1995), Rewriting the Soul, Chapter 17
Ian Hacking (2007), "On Not Being a Pragmatist"
Arthur Danto (1962), "Narrative Sentences"(very much optional)
Paul Roth (forthcoming), "The Pasts: Part II"(also optional)

Readings for Alison Wylie's session ("Pragmatic pluralism: does collaborative archaeology undermine ideals of objectivity?"):

Alison Wylie (2003), "Why Standpoint Matters"
Alison Wylie (2005), "The Promise and Perils of an Ethic of Stewardship"
Leonard Krimmerman (2000), "Participatory Action Research: Should Social Inquiry Be Conducted Democratically?"
Kristen Intemann (2010), "25 Years of Feminist Empiricism and Standpoint Theory"

Re(Reading) Cornel West

Session I (Tuesday afternoon) will focus on selections from Prophesy Deliverance (1982/2002), The American Evasion of Philosophy (1989), The Ethical Dimensions of Marxist Thought (1991), and Race Matters (1994). Session II (Wednesday afternoon) will focus on selections from The Future of American Progressivism (1998), The Cornel West Reader (2000), Democracy Matters (2005), and West's contribution to the just-published volume The Power of Religion in the Public Sphere (2011).

Naturalized Ethics

John Dewey (1916), "Introduction" to Essays in Experimental Logic
John Dewey (1931), "Qualitative Thought"
Owen Flanagan (1996), "Ethics Naturalized: Ethics as Human Ecology"
Gregory F. Pappas (2008), selections from John Dewey’s Ethics (Indiana University Press, 2008), Chapter One, "Experience as Method" p.17-42 and Chapter Five, "Moral Deliberation" pp. 94-120.
Gregory F. Pappas (forthcoming), "A Deweyean Approach to the Problems of Contemporary Political Discourse", especially pp.8-36.
Joshua Greene and Jonathan Haidt (2002), "How (and where) does moral judgment work?"

Pre-Institute Readings

Michael Pollan, "Omnivore’s Dilemma" chapter of The Omnivore’s Dilemma
Lisa Heldke, "Foodmaking as Thoughtful Practice" chapter from Cooking, Eating, Thinking
John Dewey, "The Live Creature" from Art As Experience (avail via Google Books)