American Philosophies

Leonard Harris is Professor of Philosophy Professor at Purdue University. of Philosophy, He is editor of Racism (1999), The Critical Pragmatism of Alain Locke, (1999) and co-editor of Exploitation and Exclusion: Race and Class in Contemporary US Society (1992).Scott Pratt is Assistant Professor at the University of Oregon. He is co-editor of The Philosophy of Cadwallader Colden (forthcoming).Anne Waters is Assistant Professor at Texas Woman's University. She is the editor of American Indian Thought: A Philosophical Reader (Blackwell, forthcoming). She is also co-editor of Hypatia, Journal of Feminist Philosophy and is on the editorial board of Ayaanwayaamizin: An International Indigenist Philosophy Journal, and the Radical Philosophy Review.

• Acknowledgments viiiIntroduction 1Prolegomenon to a Tradition: What is American Philosophy? 5Leonard HarrisPart I Origin and Teleology 71 Letter to the Taino/Arawak Indians, 1493 9King Ferdinand of Aragon2 Speeches 11Sa-Go-Ye-Wat-Ha3 How the World Began 15Arthur C. Parker4 The Interesting Narrative 22Olaudah Equiano5 A History of New York 32Washington Irving6 Nature 43Ralph Waldo EmersonPart II Minds and Selves 637 Impressions of an Indian Childhood 65Zit Kala Sa8 Of Being and Original Sin 73Jonathan Edwards9 Principles of Psychology 88William James10 Self-Consciousness, Social Consciousness and Nature 108Josiah Royce11 Our Brains and What Ails Them 122Charlotte Perkins Gilman12 Race 134W. E. B. Du Bois13 The Genesis of the Self and Social Control 150George Herbert MeadPart III Knowledge and Inquiry 16314 Knowledge 165Frances Wright15 An Introduction to the Study of Phylosophy Wrote in America for the Use of a Young Gentleman 176Cadwallader Colden16 What Pragmatism Is 188Charles Sanders Peirce17 The Supremacy of Method 198John Dewey18 The Practice of Philosophy 211Susanne K. Langer19 An American Urphilosophie 223Robert BungePart IV Community and Power 23720 Traditional History of the Confederacy of the Six Nations 239Committee of the Chiefs21 Account of My Life 262Benjamin Franklin22 The Federalist Papers 270Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay23 Observations on the New Constitution 278Mercy Otis WarrenPart V Slavery and Freedom 28724 The Pueblo Revolt, 1680 289Don Antonio de Otermin25 Fourth of July Address at Reidsville, New York, 1854 295John Wannuaucon Quinney26 Appeal to the Coloured Citizens of the World, 1829 298David Walker27 Prejudices Against People of Color, and Our Duties in Relation to this Subject 313Lydia Maria Francis Child28 Civil Disobedience 325Henry David Thoreau29 Oration, Delivered in Corinthian Hall, Rochester, July 5, 1852 337Frederick Douglass30 Woman versus the Indian 347Anna J. CooperPart VI Democracy and Utopia 35931 Male Continence 361John Humphrey Noyes32 Democratic Vistas 374Walt Whitman33 Newer Ideals of Peace 389Jane Addams34 Anarchism: What It Really Stands For 405Emma Goldman35 What to Do and How to Do It 412George Washington Woodbey36 What the Indian Means to America 420Luther Standing Bear37 Our Democracy and the American Indian 423Laura M. C. Kellogg38 Cultural Pluralism 433Alain L. LockeIndex 446

"Leonard Harris, Scott L. Pratt, and Anne S. Waters have produced an anthology nurtured by a profound epistemological and cultural value pluralism. The text unapologetically reveals a diversity of philosophical perspectives and traditions previously marginalized by intellectual and political normative forces that have valorized a few white men as the ‘oracle voices' of American philosophy. This new, relevant, and highly engaging anthology will force academic and cultural gatekeepers to radically reassess what it means ‘to know and to be,' ‘to do American philosophy,' ‘to be an American,' and ‘to live democratically." George Yancy, Duquesne University and editor of Cornel West: A Critical Reader (Blackwell 2001)