{"product_id":"why-context-matters-or-where-did-anglo-american-philosophy-go-wrong-paperback","title":"Why Context Matters: Or, Where Did Anglo-American Philosophy Go Wrong? - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAlicia Juarrero\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhy were so many luminaries of European philosophy - such as Bergson, Heidegger, Husserl, Merleau-Ponty, and Sartre, even Marx and Freud - kept out of the philosophy curriculum of Anglo-American universities for most of the 20\u003csup\u003eth\u003c\/sup\u003e century? Why were the schools of philosophy they founded derided as \u003cem\u003econtinental philosophy\u003c\/em\u003e and deemed more suitable for the departments of literature and psychology than philosophy? This book argues that the institutionally sanctioned contrast between allegedly \u003cem\u003elegitimate\u003c\/em\u003e philosophy and its spurious \u003cem\u003econtinental\u003c\/em\u003e counterpart became entrenched thanks to two intertwined metaphysical presuppositions at the heart of positivism. The first is the principle that higher-level complex systems are epiphenomenal. The second is that all causes are mechanical.\u003c\/p\u003eIn contrast to their continental European counterparts, Anglo-American metaphysicians and philosophers of science repeatedly resisted the idea that higher level phenomena might be, ontologically-speaking, \u003cem\u003erelational\u003c\/em\u003e. This book proposes that, had the\u003cem\u003e \u003c\/em\u003ealternative path that emphasizes context-dependence been selected, a scientifically respectable \u003cem\u003erelational ontology\u003c\/em\u003e might have come to inform Anglo-American metaphysics and epistemology as well as the actual practice of science - without falling prey to non-natural \u003cem\u003edeus ex machina\u003c\/em\u003e proposals.Four female British philosophers at Oxford during WWII attempted to do exactly that. Anscombe, Foot, Midgley, and Murdoch raised serious objections to Oxbridge's Newton-inspired positivism as early as the 1940s. The four good friends advocated for a context-dependent worldview. This book situates the four women philosophers' valiant challenge to the entrenched paradigm as a case study of exactly why and how context matters.\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 174\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.37 x 8.47 x 5.32 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e December 02, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45397757558863,"sku":"9781788361378","price":50.06,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0677\/3083\/3487\/files\/7hnCevEaT99781788361378.webp?v=1780286147","url":"https:\/\/lumaryon.com\/products\/why-context-matters-or-where-did-anglo-american-philosophy-go-wrong-paperback","provider":"Lumaryon Universal","version":"1.0","type":"link"}