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American Indian Thought: Philosophical Essays
Twenty-two essays by American Indian philosophers, among them Vine Deloria Jr., Viola Cordova and Brian Burkhart, on knowledge, science, being, ethics, law and art, arranged by the fields of academic philosophy; Waters calls it the first such collection by American Indian PhDs in philosophy.
Introduction
Waters edited “American Indian Thought” for Blackwell; it appeared at the end of 2003 with the date 2004. The acknowledgments call the volume the beginning of a continuing effort to build up American Indian philosophy as a field and thank Viola Cordova, with whom Waters discussed what the book should contain and why. After an opening part with Vine Deloria Jr.’s “Philosophy and the Tribal Peoples”, the essays are arranged by the fields of the discipline: epistemology; science, mathematics and logic; metaphysics; phenomenology; ethics; social and political philosophy; and aesthetics. The contributors differ widely in discipline and nation. Reviewing it, Sandy Grande called the book “a landmark, a significant juncture in the continual evolution of Native intellectual life”.
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