Human Nature and Natural Knowledge: Essays Presented to Marjorie Grene on the Occasion of Her Seventy-Fifth Birthday (Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science)

Everybody knows Marjorie Grene. In part, this is because she is a presence: her vividness, her energy, her acute intelligence, her critical edge, her quick humor, her love of talking, her passion for philosophy - all combine to make her inevitable. Marjorie Grene cannot be missed or overlooked or undervalued. She is there - Dasein personified. It is an honor to present a Festschrift to her. It honors philosophy to honor her. Professor Grene has shaped American philosophy in her distinc­ tive way (or, we should say, in distinctive ways). She was among the first to introduce Heidegger's thought ... critically ... to the American and English philosophical community, first in her early essay in the Journal of Philosophy (1938), and then in her book Heidegger (1957). She has written as well on Jaspers and Marcel, as in the Kenyon Review (1957). Grene's book Dreadful Freedom (1948) was one of the most important and influential introductions to Existentialism, and her works on Sartre have been among the most profound and insightful studies of his philosophy from the earliest to the later writings: her book Sartre (1973), and her papers 'L'Homme est une passion inutile: Sartre and Heideg­ ger' in the Kenyon Review (1947), 'Sartre's Theory of the Emo­ tions' in Yale French Studies (1948), 'Sartre: A Philosophical Study' in Mind (1969), 'The Aesthetic Dialogue of Sartre and Merleau-Ponty' in the initial volume of the Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology (1970), 'On First Reading L'Idiot de Front Matter....Pages i-xvii Front Matter....Pages 1-1 Love, Friendship, and Utility: On Practical Reason and Reductionism....Pages 3-21 The “Internal Politics” of Biology and the Justification of Biological Theories....Pages 23-45 Two Motivations for Rationalism: Descartes and Spinoza....Pages 47-61 The Invention of Split Personalities....Pages 63-85 Positivism, Sociology, and Practical Reasoning: Notes on Durkheim’s Suicide ....Pages 87-104 Front Matter....Pages 105-105 Adequate Causes and Natural Change in Descartes’ Philosophy....Pages 107-127 Heidegger and the Scandal of Philosophy....Pages 129-151 Spinoza and the Ontological Proof....Pages 153-166 Tracking Aristotle’s Noûs....Pages 167-197 Front Matter....Pages 199-199 Two Kinds of Teleological Explanation....Pages 201-210 Philosophy and Medicine in Antiquity....Pages 211-232 Anthropocentrism Reconsidered....Pages 233-241 Location and Existence....Pages 243-257 Forms of Aggregativity....Pages 259-291 Front Matter....Pages 293-293 Descartes and Merleau-Ponty on the Cogito as the Foundation of Philosophy....Pages 295-312 The Worst Excess of Cartesian Dualism....Pages 313-325 Genius, Scientific Method, and the Stability of Synthetic A Priori Principles....Pages 327-339 Should Hume Be Answered or Bypassed?....Pages 341-352 Front Matter....Pages 353-353 In and On Friendship....Pages 355-368 The Professional Activities of Marjorie Grene....Pages 369-370 Front Matter....Pages 353-353 The Publications of Marjorie Grene....Pages 371-374 Back Matter....Pages 375-381