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Charlene Haddock Seigfried

American Philosophy, Social and Political Philosophy, Feminist Philosophy

Selected Publications

Books

• Feminist Interpretations of John Dewey. Ed., Re-Reading the Canon series, University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2002.
• Pragmatism and Feminism: Reweaving the Social Fabric.  Chicago:  University of Chicago Press, 1996.
• William James's Radical Reconstruction of Philosophy.  Albany:  State University of New York Press, 1990.

Book Chapters

• “Thinking Desire: Taking Perspectives Seriously.”  In Reconstructing Democracy, Recontextualizing Dewey: Pragmatism and Interactive Constructivism in the Twenty-First Century, ed. Jim Garrison, 137-155. SUNY Press, 2008.
• “The Dilemma of Democracy:  Diversity of Interests and Common Experiences.”  In Renascent Pragmatism:  Studies  in Law and Social Science, ed. Alfonso Morales, 31-48.  Brookfield, VT: Ashgate, 2003.

Articles

• "A Pragmatist Response to Death:  Jane Addams on the Permanent and the Transient," JSP, 21:2(2007): 133-141.
• “The Dangers of Unilateralism,” Special issue on Feminist Perspectives on Peace and War: Before and After 9-11, NWSA Journal, 18:3 (Fall, 2006): 20-32.
• "Is James Still Too Radical for Pragmatic Recognition?", William James Studies, 1:1(2006).
• “Ghosts Walking Underground: Dewey’s Vanishing Metaphysics,” Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society, 40:1(Winter, 2004): 1-29.
• “Has Passion a Place in Philosophy?” in Hugh McCann and Robert Audi, eds., APA Centennial volume, 2003,  Journal of Philosophical Research (2003): 35-54.

Selected Honors

• John Dewey Lecturer for 2007, awarded by the John Dewey Society, AERA, Chicago.
• 2005 John Dewey Society Outstanding Achievement Award, AERA, Montreal, Canada.
• Invited speaker for Workshop on Pragmatism and the Ethics of Belief, Nordic Pragmatism Network, Dec. 15-17, 2008. Jyvaskyla, Finland.
• Keynote Speaker for Conference on Identity and Social Transformation, CEPF / 08, Brno, Czech Republic, May 26-30, 2008.
• Invited  Speaker,for  International Conference on John Dewey:  Reconstructing  Democracy, University of Calabria, Cosenza–Rossano–Matera, Italy, May 23-26, 2007

Work in Progress

• “The Courage of One’s Convictions or the Conviction of One’s Courage?  Jane Addams’s Principled Compromises,” Jane Addams and the Practice of Democracy: Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Theory and Practice.  Ed. Wendy Chmielewski, Marilyn Fischer, and Carol Nackenoff.  Urbana: University of Illinois Press.
• "Cultural Contradictions:  Jane Addams's Struggles with the Life of Art and the Art of Life,"  Feminist Interpretations of Jane Addams. Ed. Maurice Hamington. Penn State University Press.
• “Relating Identity and Diversity,” Identity and Social Transformation, Alexander Kremer and John Ryder, eds., Value Inquiry Book Series, Rodopi Press.
• Book: Sympathetic Understanding and Cooperative Intelligence:  The Philosophy of Jane Addams.
• Also working on a book on pragmatism.

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