ऐन वाटर्स

कृतियाँ

• 2004अमेरिकन इंडियन थॉट: दार्शनिक निबंध

  अमेरिकी इंडियन दार्शनिकों के बाईस निबंध, जिनमें वाइन डेलोरिया जूनियर, वायोला कोर्दोवा और ब्रायन बर्कहार्ट हैं, ज्ञान, विज्ञान, सत्ता, नीतिशास्त्र, विधि और कला पर, अकादमिक दर्शन के क्षेत्रों के अनुसार व्यवस्थित; वाटर्स इसे दर्शनशास्त्र में अमेरिकी इंडियन पीएचडी धारकों का ऐसा पहला संग्रह कहती हैं।

• 2004भाषा मायने रखती है: अ-विच्छिन्न अ-द्विआधारी द्वैतवाद

  निबंध जो तर्क देता है कि अमेरिका की कई मूल भाषाएँ “अ-विच्छिन्न” सत्ता-मीमांसा पर टिकी हैं जिसमें वस्तुएँ एक-दूसरे में व्याप्त हैं, ताकि नर और मादा जैसे जोड़े परस्पर-अपवर्जी के बजाय पूरक हों; इस तरह पढ़ने पर जेंडर को सारीकृत श्रेणी होना आवश्यक नहीं।

मत

Waters is on the map for helping to establish American Indian philosophy as a field of academic philosophy. “American Indian Thought: Philosophical Essays” (2004), which Waters edited, brought together twenty-two essays by American Indian philosophers – among them Vine Deloria Jr., Viola Cordova, Brian Burkhart, Thurman Lee Hester Jr. and Dale Turner – arranged by the fields of the discipline, from epistemology and logic to ethics and aesthetics; Sandy Grande called it a landmark of Native intellectual life, and Burkhart counted it among the four key texts of a decade of Native American philosophy. Waters’ own essays deal with ontology and identity. “Language Matters” distinguishes the “discrete binary dualism” of Western thought since Plato, whose sharply bounded opposites permit hierarchies such as mind over body or male over female, from a “nondiscrete nonbinary dualism” in Indigenous languages of the Americas, in which each term remains itself and is also part of the other; gender, so understood, need not be an essentialised category, and feminist and race theory should take this into account. “Ontology of Identity and Interstitial Being” draws on Deloria’s idea of identity rooted in place and describes American Indian identity not as conformity to a definition of “Indianness” but as a consciousness woven from many meanings in the gaps between imposed categories. The newsletter, the association and the APA committee gave what Waters called the first generation of American Indians in professional philosophy a forum of their own.

जीवन और संदर्भ

Anne Waters writes in the dedication of “American Indian Thought” (2004) as “a Seminole woman”; in an autobiographical essay in the same volume Waters describes a family history that includes Seminole, Choctaw, Chickasaw and Cherokee ancestry. Waters took a doctorate in philosophy at Purdue University and a law degree at the University of New Mexico, both in 1992, the year in which Viola Cordova also received a doctorate in philosophy; the two were among the first American Indian women in the field. From 1996 Waters was a driving force behind the American Indian Philosophy Association, as its founding president, and behind the American Philosophical Association’s Committee on American Indians in Philosophy, approved in 1999, of which Waters was a founding member and chair. With Cordova, Waters edited the APA Newsletter on American Indians in Philosophy from 2001. Waters was a research associate at the State University of New York at Binghamton, co-edited a special issue of Hypatia on Indigenous women in the Americas (2003) and the SUNY Press series “Living Indigenous Philosophies”, and has also published poetry.

अन्य प्रमुख कृतियाँ

• Indigeneity, Self-Determination, and Sovereignty (APA Newsletter on American Indians in Philosophy 2:1, 2002)
• Introduction: Indigenous Women in the Americas (Hypatia 18:2, special issue, co-ed., 2003)
• American Indian Thought: Philosophical Essays (ed., 2004)
• Language Matters: Nondiscrete Nonbinary Dualism (in American Indian Thought, 2004)
• Ontology of Identity and Interstitial Being (in American Indian Thought, 2004)