“[American Philosophy] means a situated approach to philosophy that is context sensitive, experimental, and fallibilist. This approach encourages a pluralistic attitude as it is important to encounter and try to understand many different perspectives on any given situation or problem that one might want to try to address and ameliorate. This approach encourages open-mindedness and humility and finds intellectual dogmas and moral absolutes to be among the biggest obstacles to ongoing critical inquiry. It means substantive and sympathetic engagement with one’s environment and the various beings within that environment...” -Erin McKenna
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Erin McKenna is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Oregon. Among many books and articles she is the author of Living with Animals: Rights, Responsibilities, and Respect (2020), Livestock: Food, Fiber, and Friends (2018), American Philosophy: From Wounded Knee to the Present, (with Scott L. Pratt 2015), Pets, People, and Pragmatism (2013), and co-editor (with Lee McBride) of Pragmatist Feminism and the Work of Charlene Haddock Seigfried (2022). She is a Past President of SAAP. 
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