Certainty in Action
Wittgenstein on Language, Mind and Epistemology
Description:... 1. Introduction: The Development of Academic Philosophy in America and Women's Place in It a) From Philosophizing in the Parlor to Professionalizing Philosophy b) The Move from Transcendentalism to Neo-Hegelianism to Academic Philosophy c) Clusters of Success: Cornell and Michigan as Models for Women's Achievement d) Solo Acts: Women Who Succeeded Without Support Structures e) Admission and Success: Talented Women at Yale Who Did Not Soar f) Women Who Left Academia -- 2. Women at Cornell - The Value of Institutional Support and Strong Mentoring a) May Preston Slosson: Professor Turned Prison Chaplain (Hastings College) b) Eliza Ritchie: Scholarly Debate and Personal Professional Priorities (Dalhousie University) c) Ellen Bliss Talbot: Academic Philosopher and Powerhouse (Mt. Holyoke College) d) Grace Neal Dolson: From Professor to Nun (Wells College) e) Vida Frank Moore: an Academic Philosopher (Elmira College) -- 3. Women at Michigan - How and Why Mentors Mattered a) Marietta Kies: Political Philosopher and Professor (Mt. Holyoke, Colorado College, Mills, Butler) b) Caroline Miles Hill: From Philosophy to Social Work to Marriage and Family c) Eliza Sunderland: Excluded, but not Dissuaded - Philosophical Thought Outside the Academy -- 4. Overcoming the Odds - Women Who Achieved Despite Roadblocks a) Christine Ladd-Franklin (Johns Hopkins PhD): Excellence Speaks for Itself b) Mary Whiton Calkins (Harvard PhD): The Power of Mentoring for Another Philosopher c) Ethel Dench Puffer Howes (Harvard PhD): A Truncated Academic Career d) Julia Gulliver (Wooster PhD): Contributions to Academic, Social and Political Discourse e) Amy Elizabeth Tanner (Chicago PhD): From Philosophy to Psychology -- 5. The Curious Case of Women at Yale - Prestige Without Support Yields Success, but Not Scholarship a) Anna Alice Cutler (Smith College) b) Blanche Zehring (Wells College) c) Clara Maria Hitchcock (Lake Erie College) -- 6. Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index.
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