Marjorie Grene

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Marjorie Glicksman Grene , nee Marjorie Glicksman (born December 13, 1910 in Milwaukee , Wisconsin, † March 16, 2009 in Blacksburg , Virginia) was an American philosopher .

life and work

Grene first studied zoology at Wellesley College , from 1931 philosophy with Martin Heidegger and Karl Jaspers in Germany. She received her PhD from Radcliffe College . She then taught at the University of Chicago . In 1944 she and her husband David Grene became a farmer in Illinois; In 1952 the family moved and built a farm in Ireland. In the 1950s she taught philosophy in Manchester and Leeds. The marriage ended in divorce in 1961. Grene was Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Davis for 13 years , and from 1988 also at Virginia Tech. In 1976 she was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences .

In her long career, Marjorie Grene published important articles on the philosophy of biology and the history of philosophy . She tries to reconcile general natural positions and context-specific ideas . A central theme in Grene's work is the role of perception . Building on James Gibson's psychology of perception , she defines perception from the specific living conditions and requirements of living beings . It is only from this position that consciousness can then also be understood.

Works

  • Dreadful Freedom: A Critique of Existentialism (1948)
  • Martin Heidegger (1957)
  • Introduction to Existentialism (1959)
  • A Portrait of Aristotle (1963)
  • The Knower and the Known (1966)
  • Approaches to a Philosophical Biology (1968)
  • Jean-Paul Sartre (1973)
  • The Understanding of Nature: Essays In The Philosophy Of Biology (1974)
  • Philosophy In and Out of Europe (1976)
  • Descartes (1985)
  • Descartes Among the Scholastics (Aquinas Lecture 1991)
  • Interactions. The Biological Context of Social Systems (1992; with Niles Eldredge )
  • A Philosophical Testament (1995)
  • Philosophy of Biology: An Episodic History (2004; with David Depew )

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Lewis Edwin Hahn (Ed.), Randall E. Auxier (Ed.): The Philosophy of Marjorie Grene . Open Court, 2003, ISBN 978-0-8126-9527-4 , pp. 200-224.
personal data
SURNAME Grene, Marjorie
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Glicksman Grene, Marjorie (full name); Glicksman, Marjorie (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American philosopher
DATE OF BIRTH December 13, 1910
PLACE OF BIRTH Milwaukee , Wisconsin
DATE OF DEATH March 16, 2009
Place of death Blacksburg , Virginia