Beth
J. Singer
Professor Emerita
Education:
Ph.D.
Columbia University (Philosophy) 1967
M.A. Teachers College, Columbia University (Social Psychology) 1957
B.A. The University of Wisconsin at Madison (Philosophy) 1949
Areas
of Specialization:
American
Philosophy
Philosophy of Human Rights
Metaphysics
Publications:
Books:
Pragmatism,
Rights, and Democracy (New York: Fordham University Press, 1999);
in Chinese, tr. Wang Shou Chang (Shanghai: Shanghai Translation Publishing
House, 2001).
Operative
Rights. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1993.
Ordinal
Naturalism: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Justus Buchler (Lewisburg,
Pennsylvania: Bucknell University Press, 1983).
The
Rational Society: A Critical Study of Santayana's Social Thought (Cleveland:
The Press of Case Western Reserve University, 1970).
Edited
Books:
With
Tom Rockmore, Antifoundationalism Old and New (Philadelphia:
Temple University Press, 1992).
John
Herman Randall, Jr., Philosophy After Darwin: Studies for The Career
of Philosophy, Volume III, and Other Essays (New York: Columbia
University Press, 1977).
Articles
(Selected):
"Human
Rights: Some Current Issues," John Howie, ed., Ethical Issues for
a New Millennium (Carbondale and Edwardsville: Southern Illinois University
Press, 2002), Ch.1.
"Toward
a Pragmatics of Artistic Utterance," Lewis E. Hahn, ed., Perspectives
on Habermas (Chicago and La Salle, Illinois: Open Court, 2000), Vol.I,
Part 1, Ch.9.
"Philosophic
Systems and Systematic Philosophy," Proceedings of the 20th World
Congress of Philosophy, Vol. II (Bowling Green, Ohio: Philosophy Documentation
Center, 1999), pp.227-235.
"Mental
Illness: Rights, Competence, and Communication," Glenn McGee, ed.,
Pragmatism and Bioethics (Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press, Classics
in American Philosophy, 1999), Part III, Ch. 11.
"Mead:
The Nature of Rights," Douglas R. Anderson, Carl R. Hausman, and
Sandra Rosenthal, eds, Classical American Pragmatism: Its Contemporary
Vitality (Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1999), Part
1, Ch. 12.
"Alain
Locke Remembered," Leonard Harris, ed., The Critical Pragmatism of
Alain Locke (Lanham, Maryland: Rowman and Littlefield, Inc., 1999), Part
VI, Postscript.
"Community,
Mutuality, and Rights," Michael Boylan, ed., Alan Gewirth: Critical
Essays on Action, Rationality, and Community (Lanham, Maryland: Rowman
and Littlefield, Inc., 1999), Part III, Ch. 13.
"Human
Nature and Community," Open Times: A Comprehensive Journal of Social
Sciences for International Exchange (Guangzhou, China), Fifth Issue (1997),
pp. 64-70.
"The
Democratic Solution to Ethnic Pluralism," Philosophy and Social Criticism,
Vol. 19, no. 2 (April, 1993), pp. 97-114; in Russian, tr. A.B. Prozhinin,
Voprosy filosofii [Moscow], no.6 (1994), pp. 89-97.
"Rights
of Communities: Rights of Individuals," Airaksinen, Timo and Woijciech
W. Gasparski eds, Practical Philosophy and Action Theory, Praxiologies
and the Philosophy of Economics: International Annual of Practical Philosophy
and Methodology, Volume II. (New Brunswick and London: Transaction Books
1993).
"Rights
as Social Practices: The Question of Universality," J. L. Auspitz,
W. Gasparski, M. Mlicki, and K. Szaniawski, eds, Praxiologies and the
Philosophy of Economics: International Annual of Practical Philosophy
and Methodology, Volume I (New Brunswick and London: Transaction Books,
1992), pp. 187-220.
"Pragmatism
and Pluralism," Pragmatism: A Second Look, The Monist, Vol. 75, no.
4 (Oct. 1992), pp. 477-491.
"Systematic
Nonfoundationalism: The Philosophy of Justus Buchler," The Journal
of Speculative Philosophy, New Series, Vol. VII, no. 3 (1993), pp. 191-205.
"Rights
and Norms," Frontiers in American Philosophy (College Station: Texas
A & M University Press, 1992), Vol.I, pp. 309-317.
"On
Some Differences Between Metaphysical and Scientific Discourse,"
The Journal of Speculative Philosophy, New Series, Vol. I, no. 1 (1987),
pp. 38-54.
"Having
Rights," Philosophy and Social Criticism, Vol. II, no. 4 (Fall 1986),
pp. 391-412. Reprinted in Michael Boylan, ed., Perspectives in Philosophy
Fort Worth: Harcourt Brace, 1993), pp. 134-149.
"Naturalism
and Generality in Buchler and Santayana," Overheard in Seville: Bulletin
of the Santayana Society, Vol. 3 (Fall 1985), pp. 29-37.
"Art,
Poetry, and the Sense of Prevalence: Some Implications of Buchler's Theory
of Poetry," International Philosophical Quarterly, Vol. XXIV, no.
3 (September 1984), pp. 267-82.
"Introduction:
The Philosophy of Justus Buchler," The Southern Journal of Philosophy,
Vol. XIV, no. 1, Issue Editors: Beth J. Singer and Joseph G. Grassi, (Spring
1976), pp. 3-30.
"Some
Ambiguities in the Metaphysics, of Natural Complexes," The Southern
Journal of Philosophy, Vol. XIV, no. 1 (Spring 1976, pp. 55-62).
Perspectives
on the History of Pragmatism," Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce
Society, Vol. XI, no. 4 (Fall 1975), pp. 240-9.
"Substitutes
for Substances," The Modern Schoolman, Vol. LIII, no. 1, November
1975, pp.19-38. Reprinted in Armen Marsoobian, Kathleen Wallace, and Robert
Corrington, eds, Nature's Perspectives: Prospects for Ordinal Metaphysics
(Albany: State University of New York Press, 1991), pp. 73-91.
"Matter
and Time," The Southern Journal of Philosophy, Special issue on
George Santayana. Vol. X, no. 2 (Summer 1972), pp.197-205.
Invited
Presentations and Conference Papers (Selected):
"What
Is To Be Done? A Concerned Philosopher's Dilemma." Presidential Address,
Concerned Philosophers for Peace Annual Meeting, George Washington University,
October 1-4, 1998.
"The
Self as Social: Concepts of Selfhood in American Philosophy." South
China Normal University, Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, People's Republic
of China; Xiamen University, Xiamen, PRC; Fudan University, Shanghai,
PRC; Peking University, Beijing, PRC, May 1997.
"Human
Nature and Community." South China Normal University, Guangzhou,
Guangdong Province, People's Republic of China; Xiamen University, Xiamen,
PRC; Fudan University, Shanghai, PRC; Peking University, Beijing, PRC,
May 1997.
"Multiculturalism."
Fudan University, Shanghai, PRC; Peking University, Beijing, PRC; May
1997.
"Reconciling
Liberalism and Communitarianism." International Society for the Study
of European Ideas, University for Humanist Studies, Utrecht, The Netherlands,
August 19-24, 1996.
"Deep
Diversity: Charles Taylor and the Politics of Federalism." Society
for the Advancement of American Philosophy Annual Meeting, University
of Toronto, March 7-9, 1996.
"Difference,
Otherness, and the Creation of Community." Concerned Philosophers
for Peace Conference, "Community, Difference and Diversity: Implications
for Peace," University of Dayton, October 19-22, 1995.
"Pragmatism,
Rights, and Democracy." Invited paper, American Philosophical Association,
Eastern Division, December 1995.
"J.
J. Rousseau, J.S. Mill, and T. H. Green on Natural Rights." Institute
of Philosophy, University of Wroclaw, Poland, April 26, 1995; Institute
of Philosophy, University of Lodz, Poland, May 4, 1995.
"Multiculturalism, Identity, and Minority Rights." Institute
of Philosophy, University of Wroclaw, Poland, April 24, 1995.
Lectures
on the Theory of Rights, Wroclaw, Poland, March 22-26, 1993; Gdansk, Poland,
March 29- April 2, 1993.
"Dialogic
Reciprocity: The Democratic Solution to Ethnic Pluralism." Conference,
"National and Ethnic Minorities in the Carpathian Region: National
and Ethnic Problems from the Second World War to the Present Day."
Sponsored by the Department of History, Janus Pannonius University and
the Society for the Dissemination of the Arts and Sciences. Szigetvar,
Hungary, October 21-23, 1992.
"Orthodoxy
and Heterodoxy in Rights Theory: Two Lectures." Faculty of Law, Janus
Pannonius University, Pecs, Hungary, October 26-30, 1992. (Translated
into Hungarian by Adrienne Komanovics for use as a text in a course on
the philosophy of human rights.)
"Systematic
Nonfoundationalism: The Philosophy of Justus Buchler." Invited paper,
American Philosophical Association, Eastern Division, December 30, 1991.
"Poetry
in Motion: Dance as Exhibitive Communication," "Distance Covered,
Time Consumed, Energy Expended: A Tribute to Margaret H'Doubler."
Dance Program, School of Education, The University of Wisconsin at Madison,
April 20, 1991.
"Rights
of Communities and Rights of Individuals." Institute of Philosophy
and Sociology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland, January 7,
1991; Institute of Philosophy, Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland,
January 9, 1991.
"Basing
'Ought' on 'Is'." Logic Seminar, Institute of Philosophy, Jagiellonian
University, Krakow, Poland, January 10, 1991.
"Intersubjectivity
Without Subjectivism." Society for Phenomenology and Existential
Philosophy, October 13, 1990.
"Anti-Foundationalism
in American Philosophy." Fordham University, April 14, 1989.
"Rights
as Social Practices: The Question of Universality." Conference, "Praxiology
and the Philosophy of Economics," Warsaw, Poland, September 2-5,
1988.
"Metaphysics
without Mirrors." Presidential Address, Society for the Advancement
of American Philosophy Fifteenth Annual Meeting, Pennsylvania State
University, March 4, 1988.
"Operative
Rights." Congreso Internacional Extraordinario de Filosoffa, Universidad
Nacional de Cordoba, Cordoba, Argentina, September 20-26, 1987.
"A
New Direction in American Philosophy." The Roy Wood Sellars Lecture
in American Philosophy, Bucknell University, November 6, 1986.
"Rights
and the Concept of Community." Class of 1902 Lecture Series, Bryn
Mawr College, April 22, 1985.
"Some
Questions About Rights." Rutgers University, April 19, 1985.
"Signs,
Interpretation, and the Social World." Conference on Pragmatism and
Phenomenology, The Pennsylvania State University, Summer, 1984.
"On
Some Differences between Science and Metaphysics." Philosophy Colloquim,
The Pennsylvania State University, April 11, 1984.
"How
Many Am I? Royce and Mead on the Self." American Studies Association,
September 1983.
"Why
Can't Metaphysics be more Like Science?" Philosophy Department Colloquim,
Brooklyn College, March 1981.
"Scientific
and Metaphysical Discourse." The University of Sussex, School of
English and American Studies, Sussex, England, October 20, 1978.
"New
Trends in Contemporary Philosophy." Fairfield University, 1972.
"Alfred
North Whitehead and Justus Buchler." State University of New York
at Binghamton, 1970.
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