Judith Green

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Prof. Dr. Judith Green

Department of Philosophy

Fordham University

Bronx, NY 10458

(718) 817-3281

Email: jmgreen@fordham.edu
www: http://www.fordham.edu/philosophy/faculty/green.htm

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Judith Green #1

Universalism/Contextualism
»Habits of speech, including syntax and vocabulary, and modes of interpretation have been formed in the face of inclusive and defining situations of context ... We are not explicitly aware of the role of context just because our every utterance is so saturated with it that it forms the significance of what we say and hear ... Now thought lives, moves, and has its being in and through symbols, and, therefore, depends for meaning upon context as do the symbols ... I should venture to assert that the most pervasive fallacy of philosophic thinking goes back to neglect of context.« (LW 6: 4-5)
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Judith Green #2

Re/de/constructions:
Construction (experience)
»I have used the word construction" to denote "the creative mind, the mind that is genuinely productive in its operations. We are given to associating creative mind with persons regarded as rare and unique, like geniuses. But every individual is in his own way unique. Each one experiences life from a different angle than anybody else, and consequently has something distinctive to give others if he can turn his experiences into ideas and pass them on to others.« (LW 5: 127)
Reconstruction (habit)
»There is no one among us who is not called upon to face honestly and courageously the equipment of beliefs, religious, political, artistic, economic, that has come to him in all sorts of indirect and uncriticized ways, and to inquire how much of it is validated and verified in present need, opportunity, and application.« (LW 5: 142)
Deconstruction (criticism)
»Creative activity is our great need; but criticism, self-criticism, is the road to its release.« (LW 5: 143)
»We cannot permanently divest ourselves of the intellectual habits we take on and wear when we assimilate the culture of our own time and place. But intelligent furthering of culture demands that we take some of them off, that we inspect them critically to see what they are made of and what wearing them does to us« (LW 1: 40)
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Judith Green #3-4

Truth and Warranted Assertions (Experimentalism)
»... the term ‘warranted assertion' s preferred to the terms belief and knowledge. It is free from the ambiguity of these latter terms, and it involves reference to inquiry as that which warrants assertion« (LW 12: 17)
Experience and the Real
»... the question ... is what the real is. If natural existence is qualitatively individualized or genuinely plural, as well as repetitious, and if things have both temporal quality and recurrence or uniformity, then the more realistic knowledge is, the more fully it will reflect and exemplify these traits« (LW 1: 127)
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Judith Green #5

Experience and Language
»If existence in its immediacies could speak it would proclaim: ‘I may have relatives but I am not related.' In aesthetic objects, that is in all immediately enjoyed and suffered things, in things directly possessed, they thus speak for themselves.« (LW 1: 75f)
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Judith Green #7-8

Democracy (Liberalism and Socialism)
»The end of democracy is a radical end. For it is an end that has not been adequately realized in any country at any time. It is radical because it requires great change in existing social institutions, economic, legal and cultural.« (LW 11: 298f)
Democracy (Experience and Education)
»Democracy is the faith that the process of experience is more important than any special result attained, so that special results achieved are of ultimate value only as they are used to enrich and order the ongoing process. Since the process of experience is capable of being educative, faith in democracy is all one with faith in experience and education.« (LW 14: 229)
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Judith Green #9-11

Democracy (Culture and the Power of Imagination)
»Imagination is the chief instrument of the good" (LW 10: 350), because only "imaginative vision elicits the possibilities that are interwoven within the texture of the actual.« (LW 10: 348)
Democracy (Intelligence and Local Communities)
»In a word, that expansion and reinforcement of personal understanding and judgment by the cumulative and transmitted intellectual wealth of the community which may render nugatory the indictment of democracy drawn on the basis of the ignorance, bias and levity of the masses, can be fulfilled only in the relations of personal intercourse in the local community ... Vision is a spectator; hearing is a participator ... We lie, as Emerson said, in the lap of an immense intelligence. But that intelligence is dormant and its communications are broken, inarticulate and faint until it possesses the local community as its medium.« (LW 2: 371f)
Education as Growth
»Since growth is the characteristic of life, education is all one with growing; it has no end beyond itself. The criterion of the value of school education is the extent in which it creates a desire for continued growth and supplies means for making the desire effective in fact.« (MW 9: 58)
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Areas of Research

BA, Michigan State
MA, PhD, Minnesota

• American philosophy, especially Dewey
• African American philosophy
• Native American Philosophies
• feminist theory
• contemporary social and political philosophy
• ethics and applied ethics, philosophy of education.

Publications

Books

• Judith M. Green. 2008. Pragmatism and Social Hope: Deepening Democracy in Global Contexts. New York: Columbia University Press.
• Kersten Reich, ed. Democracy and Diversity in the Pragmatic Tradition. Forthcoming.
• Kenneth W. Stikkers, ed.  Pragmatist Catholicisms. Forthcoming.

Book Chapters and Encyclopedia Entries

• Judith M. Green.  2008 forthcoming.  “Deeply Democratic Education for Whole Persons in Twenty-First Century Global Contexts,” Reconstructing Democracy for a New World, ed. Larry A. Hickman and Giuseppe Spadafora.
• 2008 forthcoming.  “Cultivating Cosmopolitan Pluralism: Democratic Community Amidst Diversity after Huntington and Benhabib,” Democracy and Diversity in the Pragmatic Tradition, ed. Judith Green and Kersten Reich (16 pages).
• 2008 forthcoming.  “Social Democracy, Cosmopolitan Hospitality, and Inter-Civilizational Peace: Lessons from Jane Addams,” Feminist Interpretations of Jane Addams, ed. Maurice Hamington.  University Park: The Pennsylvania State University Press.
• 2007 forthcoming.  “Dr. Dewey’s Metaphysical Therapeutic for America’s Post-9/11 Democratic Disease: Toward Cultural Revitalization and Political Re-inhabitation,” Reconstructing Democracy, Recontextualizing Dewey, ed. Jim Garrison.  Albany: State University of New York Press (20 pages).
• 2007.  “Equality,” The Encyclopedia of American Philosophy, ed. John Lachs and Robert Talisse.  New York: Routledge (3 pages).
• 2007.  “Friendship,” The Encyclopedia of American Philosophy, ed. John Lachs and Robert Talisse.  New York: Routledge (3 pages).
• 2007.  “Growth,” The Encyclopedia of American Philosophy, ed. John Lachs and Robert Talisse.  New York: Routledge (3 pages).
• 2006. “Pluralism and Deliberative Democracy: A Pragmatist Approach,” Blackwell’s Companion to Pragmatism, ed. John R. Shook and Joseph
• Deep Democracy: Community, Diversity, and Transformation (Rowman & Littlefield 1999).
• "Alain Locke's Multicultural Philosophy of Value: A Transformative Guide for the Twenty-First Century," in The Critical Pragmatism of Alain Locke, ed. Leonard Harris (Rowman & Littlefield, 1999).
• "Deepening Democratic Participation through Deweyan Pragmatism," Beyond the Tower: Philosophy and Service Learning, ed. David Lisman (America Association of Higher Education, 1999).
• "Educational Multiculturalism, Cultural Diversity, and Deep Democracy," Theorizing Multiculturalism: A Guide to the Current Debate, ed. Cynthia Willett (Blackwell, 1998).
• "Transformative Communication toward Democratic Communities: Pragmatism or Critical theory?" presented at the Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy, Toronto, 1996.
• "Alain Locke on Race Contact and Culture Imperialism," presented at Philosophy Born of Struggle III, New York 1996.
• "Traditional Stories and Seeing as: Discovery Epistemologies in Northwest Native American Life," presented at the American Philosophical Association Pacific Division Meetings, Seattle, 1996.
• "Notorious Philosopher: the Transformative Life and Work of Angela Davis," with Blanche Radford Curry, in Hypatia's Daughters: Fifteen Hundred Years of Women Philosophers, Linda Lopec Alister (ed.), (Indiana University Press, 1996).
• "Retrieving the Human Place in Nature," Environmental Ethics 17 (Winter 1996): 381-396.
• "The Diverse Community or the Unoppressive City: Which Ideal for a Transformative Politics of Difference?," The Journal of Social Philosophy 26:1, (Spring 1995).
• "King's Pragmatic Philosophy of Political Transformation," The Journal of Social Philosophy 25:1 (Spring 1994).