I Am An American Philosopher: Bonnie Sheehey – Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy

"...My affinity for American philosophy began as a high school student reading the likes of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Walt Whitman, and Herman Melville in an English class. It deepened as an undergraduate in a Pragmatism class devoted to William James, John Dewey, and Jane Addams. But it matured as I took graduate classes at the University of Oregon. These classes pluralized the resources of American philosophy beyond pragmatism by engaging with figures on the edges of or distant from that tradition, figures like Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Ida B. Wells-Barnett, Mary Parker Follett, W.E.B. Du Bois, Alain Locke, James Baldwin, Vine Deloria Jr., Gloria Anzaldúa, Patricia Hill Collins, and Angela Davis.

I should add that my connection to American philosophy is enriched by my reading of and drawing on other philosophical traditions like genealogy, deconstruction, Frankfurt School critical theory, actor-network-theory, and post-colonial theory. I like the flexible and open nature of American philosophy—the kind of toolbox vision of critical inquiry which necessitates being adept at more than one school, method, or discipline, which requires a bit of infidelity to tradition(s)..."

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