![]() | Race Questions, Provincialism, and Other American Problems: Expanded Edition Subjects: United States -- Civilization; Cultural pluralism -- United States; United States -- Ethnic relations; United States -- Race relations; In 1908, American philosopher Josiah Royce foresaw the future. Race questions and prejudices, he said, "promise to become, in the near future, still more important than they have ever been before." Like his student W. E. B. Du Bois in Souls of Black Folk (1903), Royce recognized that the problem of the next century would be, as Du Bois put it, "the problem of the color line." The twentieth century saw vast changes in race relations, but even after the election of the first African-American U.S. president, questions of race and the nature of community persist. Though left out of the mainstream of academic philosophy, Royce's conception of community nevertheless influenced generations of leaders who sought to end racial, religious, and national prejudice. Royce Josiah : JOSIAH ROYCE (1855-1916) is one of the central figures in American Philosophy. Fordham has reissued the two-volume edition of his Basic Writings, edited by John J. McDermott.Pratt Scott L. : Scott L. Pratt is professor of philosophy at the University of Oregon. Pratt is author of two books, Logic: Inquiry, Argument and Order (Wiley-Blackwell, 2010) and Native Pragmatism: Rethinking the Roots of American Philosophy (Indiana University Press, 2002) and co-author of American Philosophy from Wounded Knee to 9/11 (Continuum, forthcoming). He has also co-edited four volumes, including American Philosophies: An Anthology (Blackwell, 2002) and Royce's Race Questions, Provincialism and Other American Problems, Expanded Edition (Fordham University Press, 2009). He has published articles on the philosophy of pluralism, Dewey's theory of inquiry, Josiah Royce's logic, and on the intersection of American philosophy and the philosophies of indigenous North American peoples. He is a past president and Fellow of the Josiah Royce Society.Sullivan Shannon : SHANNON SULLIVAN is Professor of Philosophy, Women's Studies, and African and African American Studies at Penn State University. |
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