Marjorie Grene

Marjorie Glicksman Grene ( born Marjorie Glicksman, born December 13, 1910 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, † March 16, 2009 in Blacksburg, Virginia) was an American philosopher.

Life and work

Grene studied zoology at Wellesley College, from 1931 philosophy of Martin Heidegger and Karl Jaspers in Germany. She received her doctorate at Radcliffe College. She then taught at the University of Chicago. In 1944 she along with her husband David Grene farmer in Illinois; 1952 moved to the family and built a farm in Ireland. In the 1950s, she taught philosophy in Manchester and Leeds. In 1961 the couple divorced. Grene was for 13 years professor of philosophy at the University of California, Davis, from 1988, also at Virginia Tech.

In your long career Marjorie Grene published important contributions to the philosophy of biology and the history of philosophy. She tries to bring general little natural positions and context-specific ideas in line. A central theme in Grenes work is the role of perception. Building on James Gibson's perceptual psychology defines perception of the concrete living conditions and requirements of living things. Only from this position leave afterwards understand consciousness.

Works

  • Dreadful Freedom: A Critique of Existentialism (1948 )
  • Martin Heidegger (1957 )
  • Introduction to Existentialism (1959 )
  • A Portrait of Aristotle (1963 )
  • The Knower and the Known (1966 )
  • Approaches to a Philosophical Biology ( 1968)
  • Jean -Paul Sartre (1973 )
  • The Understanding of Nature: Essays In The Philosophy Of Biology ( 1974)
  • Philosophy In and Out of Europe ( 1976)
  • Descartes ( 1985)
  • Descartes Among the Scholastics ( Aquinas Lecture 1991)
  • Interactions. The Biological Context of Social Systems ( 1992 with Niles Eldredge )
  • A Philosophical Testament ( 1995)
  • Philosophy of Biology: An Episodic History ( 2004; with David Depew )
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