Jane Duran
Biographic Data
| ID | 3673144 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jane Duran |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jane |
| FAMILY NAME | Duran |
| SIGNATURE | DURAN J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Santa Barbara |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3504-9934 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 47 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 13 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 47 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1973 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Indigenous Quetzalcoatl
The concept of the plumed serpent and its importance as a cultural construct for the region that is today México is examined with an eye toward comparison with similar objects of veneration in Hindu India. The work of Baldwin, Sejourne, and Zimmer is alluded to, and a detailing of aspects of both serpent and raptor veneration is given. Le concept du serpent à plumes ainsi que son importance en tant que construit culturel pour le territoire aujour…
Lady Jane Grey
It is argued that the thought of Lady Jane Grey has received too little attention, and that her name and beliefs need to be resuscitated. The work of Levin, DeLisle and others is alluded to, and it is concluded that Grey was a devoted Dissenter of her time with explicit beliefs
Educating Women
The general consequentialist argument for the global education of girls is examined with a view toward explicating the necessity of sensitivity to cultural factors. The work of Nussbaum, Chen and Yousafzai is alluded to, and it is concluded that educational work for girls and women cannot meaningfully be done without some advertence to local cultural standards, even if they seem restrictive
Ritual Sequestration, Genital Cutting, and Hierodulic Servitude
Three areas of rights violation for women and young girls across the globe are examined with an eye toward the specificity of the violation, and possible areas of help. The work of internationalists such as Bales and Sagade is adduced, and other thinkers such as Dorkenoo are cited. It is concluded that much work needs to be done in this area and that more overtly feminist theological views, in any of the major religions, would help
Philosophy, Civil Rights, and Freedom Summer
Chester Himes and the Popular Novel
The work of Chester Himes, as exemplified by Real Cool Killers, is examined for its attention to social issues. It is concluded, as Polito has contended, that Himes is gifted at portraying an inner-city world and its problems. In a sense, Himes’s work also speaks to the post-World War II existential issues that drive some of the writing of Richard Wright
Maria Stewart
This article argues that Maria Stewart is an underappreciated abolitionist, and a worthy exponent of the Black views of the 1830s. Her work is compared with that of David Walker, Charlotte Forten, and Anna Julia Cooper. A focal point of much of her work is her exhortation to the high moral ground—she remains concerned, throughout her career, about the temptations faced by many during the nineteenth century that might lead them to a non-Christian …
A Violent Guatemala
Among ethnic disasters of the past few decades, few can match in intensity or have been reported in the media more extensively than those of the Indigenous in Guatemala. The social structure of the nation—its hierarchy, driven by a light-skinned population, most of whom are ethnically mestizo but who do not identify with the purely Indigenous—its history, and its small size make it an important site for the documentation and reporting of ethnic d…
Decolonizing Philosophy
Decolonizing Philosophy:Dladla's Here is a Table Jane Duran (bio) Ndumiso Dladla, Here is a Table: a Philosophical Essay on the History of Race in South Africa. Pretoria: Seriti Digital, 2017. In his recent Here is a Table: a Philosophical Essay on the History of Race in South Africa, Ndumiso Dladla brings to the attention of a number of readers the Bantu-originated worldviews of many Black South Africans, and does so in a way that sheds new ligh…
Women’s Efforts for Peace and the Feminist Movement
Although much has been written about the origins of the second wave of the feminist movement, many are unaware of its long and deep affiliations with peace organizations. Women Strike for Peace and
Gifted and Black
With a focus especially on The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window, this article argues that Hansberry's work is, in a sense, underappreciated. Hansberry's fame relies chiefly on A Raisin in the Sun, and critics have often failed to appreciate Brustein because of its general allusion to life in the Village and comparative lack of adherence to Black topics. The article however argues that this is an indicator of Hansberry's overall strength as an aut…
Philosophies of Science/Feminist Theories
This book presents the feminist critique of science and the philosophy of science in such a way that students of philosophy of science, philosophers, feminist theorists, and scientists will find the material accessible and intellectually rigorous
Bulletproof Diva and the Oral Tradition
It is argued that Lisa Jones' work, comprised mainly of humorous essays and sketches originally published in New York papers, is in its own way worth more than the writings of some better known Black American authors. Her style is compared to that of other writers, and her influence on topics such as interracial marriage is noted
Hierodulic Slavery
It has been argued that the Kumari worship of Nepal is a form of hierodulic slavery and should be abolished. In this paper, I provide a history of the notion as an instance of Shakti reverence, and I analogize it to the devadasi practice in many Indian temples
Coastal Conservation
Emecheta, Culture, and The Bride Price
Buchi Emecheta’s novel The Bride Price is examined for its overall literary strength, and particularly for its use of syncretism. Her work is compared with that of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Purple Hibiscus, and it is concluded that both writers assist us in understanding today’s African diaspora. In addition, it is argued that several key passages in Bride Price are resonant for their extensive use of metonymy, and that Emecheta’s writing exhibi…
Women of the Civil Rights Movement
Research Article| January 01 2015 Women of the Civil Rights Movement: Black Feminism and Social Progress Jane Duran Jane Duran University of California at Santa Barbara Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Philosophia Africana (2015) 17 (2): 65–73. https://doi.org/10.5325/philafri.17.2.0065 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Jane Duran; Women of the Civil Rights Movement: Black Feminism …
Naylor, Mama Day, and the Force of the Spirit
Africanicity and the Work of Charles Chesnutt
Wartime Philosophy
Ida B. Wells and the Forces of Democratization
The work of Ida B. Wells is examined not only from the standpoint of her anti-lynching writings, but from a perusal of her diaries and her efforts as a young woman. It is concluded that she exemplifies the best of the notion of a genuine democratic political force
Black/White Radical Alliances in the 1960s
In The Shadows of Youth, Andrew Lewis demarcates the work of various activists, white and black, during the Civil Rights struggle of the 1960s. It is part of Lewis's thesis that the efforts of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), and other groups were too often overshadowed by those of Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), and that the individual sacrifices made by a number of wo…
Gender and the Thought of Cornel West
Walker’s Appeal
African NGO’s and Womanism
It is argued that womanism, a concept often associated with Black American women writers, is a driving force behind much of the activity of many West African cultures, including their current work with Non-Governmental Organizations (NGO’s). The historical nature of womanism, both on the continent and in the Americas is addressed, and microcredit and NGO work in other areas held up to contrast. The conclusion is that women-oriented microcredit pr…
The Intersection of Pragmatism and Feminism
I cite areas of pragmatism and feminism that have an intersection with or an appeal to the other, including the notions of the universal and/or normative, and foundationalist lines in general. I deal with three areas from each perspective and develop the notion of their intersection. Finally, the paper discusses the importance of a pragmatic view for women's lives and the importance of psychoanalytic theory for finding another area where pragmati…
Arendt and the social
Material from Hannah Arendt’s The human condition, and commentary by Peter Baehr, is used to support the contention that her position in her classic ‘Reflections on Little Rock’ essay is inconsistent and untenable. It is argued that Arendt’s crucial use of terms such as ‘public’, ‘social’ and ‘political’ militates against the notion that school desegregation should not be imposed on the population as a whole
Coastal Conservation
African NGO’s and Womanism
It is argued that womanism, a concept often associated with Black American women writers, is a driving force behind much of the activity of many West African cultures, including their current work with Non-Governmental Organizations (NGO’s). The historical nature of womanism, both on the continent and in the Americas is addressed, and microcredit and NGO work in other areas held up to contrast. The conclusion is that women-oriented microcredit pr…
Anne Viscountess Conway
The work of Spinoza, Descartes and Leibniz is cited in an attempt to develop, both expositorily and critically, the philosophy of Anne Viscountess Conway. Broadly, it is contended that Conway's metaphysics, epistemology and account of the passions not only bear intriguing comparison with the work of the other well-known rationalists, but supersede them in some ways, particularly insofar as the notions of substance and ontological hierarchy are co…
Agrarios del minifundio
Collingwood and Intentionality
Anne Viscountess Conway
The work of Spinoza, Descartes and Leibniz is cited in an attempt to develop, both expositorily and critically, the philosophy of Anne Viscountess Conway. Broadly, it is contended that Conway's metaphysics, epistemology and account of the passions not only bear intriguing comparison with the work of the other well-known rationalists, but supersede them in some ways, particularly insofar as the notions of substance and ontological hierarchy are co…
Glymour on Deoccamization and the Epistemology of Geometry
Three lines of argument are employed to show that Glymour's position on the epistemology of geometry is probably not as strong theoretically as the position of the underdeterminists whom he attempts to refute. The first argument centers on Glymour's implicit use of a realist position on intertheoretic reference, similar to that employed by Boyd and other realists. Citations are made to various portions of Glymour's work, and the relationship betw…
On Decadence
When one visits Thailand, one is struck by the enormous number of temples in the urban Bangkok area, many of which are conspicuously absent from the more cherished art historical works on the art and architecture of south-east Asia. The Wat Po complex and Wat Reitmit, one discovers, whatever their virtues for the Western tourist, are not among the temples and archaeological sites mentioned in the text of such an authority as Benjamin Rowland. Nor…
Psychoeducational Assessment Practices for the Learning Disabled
Four lines of argument are adduced to support the contention that current disease-modeled approaches to learning disability (LD) are inadequate and that a more environmentally-centered approach should be utilized. The first argument employs philosophy of science to criticize the blatant operationalism of the extant theorizing, while noting that the theories frequently try to employ a realist slant. The second line of argument attacks the disease …
Delightful, Delovely and Externalist
Se han desarrollado tres argumentos principales para apoyar un modelo externalista de justificación y de conocimiento epistémico. El primer argumento nos pide nombrar nuevamente los orígenes de modelos internalistas y nos recuerda que el trabajo contemporáneo sobre ciencia cognitiva y epistemología naturalizada esta relacionado con estos textos. Un segundo argumento señala deficiencias en el análisis del externalismo en la obra de Bonjour y tambi…
Cummins and Conditionals
En este artículo el trabajo de Cummins y colaboradores sobre los condicionales se analiza y critica desde dos perspectivas: la primera señala la insuficiente atención que se presta al empleo del condicional material en un contexto causal, y la segunda indica el grado en que la investigación lleva a cabo afirmaciones e implicaciones para establecer modelos de cognición no basados en reglas, tales como el de Johnson-Laird. Se cita a Bereiter y se h…
The Intersection of Pragmatism and Feminism
I cite areas of pragmatism and feminism that have an intersection with or an appeal to the other, including the notions of the universal and/or normative, and foundationalist lines in general. I deal with three areas from each perspective and develop the notion of their intersection. Finally, the paper discusses the importance of a pragmatic view for women's lives and the importance of psychoanalytic theory for finding another area where pragmati…
Escher and Parmigianino
Journal Article ESCHER AND PARMIGIANINO: A STUDY IN PARADOX Get access Jane Duran Jane Duran Department of Philosophy, University of CaliforniaSanta Barbara, Santa Barbara, California 93106, USA Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The British Journal of Aesthetics, Volume 33, Issue 3, July 1993, Pages 239–245, https://doi.org/10.1093/bjaesthetics/33.3.239 Published: 01 July 1993
The reinterpreting reader
Justification à la Mode and Justification Simpliciter
The author argues that the concept of justification is viewed best through elucidation of the processes of ethical and epistemic justification, with specific attention paid to what has been dubbed the "internalist/externalist" distinction in such justification. The first part of the argument clarifies the nature of the distinction as it occurs in ethics and then epistemic justification, noting that there is a parallel between the uses of the dist…
Chisholmian Foundationalism and the Naturalization of Epistemology
El reciente proyecto de naturalización de la epistemología ha producido gran cantidad de discusiones teóricas, muchas de las cuales (Goldman, Kornblith) se esfuerzan por aludir a la investigación realizada en las ciencias cognoscitivas con el fin de ayudarnos en nuestra teorización epistémica. Utilizando tres vías principales de argumentación, propongo que examinemos un tipo de fundacionismo clásico (el de Chisholm) en tanto que paradigma de una …
The possibility of a feminist epistemology
L'A. elabore une epistemologie feministe par opposition a l'androcentrisme epistemique qui resulte de la tradition cartesienne et du mouvement analytique. L'A. souligne les donnees empiriques et symboliques d'une pensee gynocentrique qui insisterait sur les caracteres sociaux et cognitifs de la connaissance
Knowledge in Context
This book is an extended argument about what epistemologists are missing when they presume that a 'theory of knowledge' is nothing more than a 'model of the mind,' or when they presume to naturalize epistemology only by advertising to cognitive science. Drawing on recent work by such sociolinguists as Dell Hymes and Erving Goffman and epistemologists Hilary Kornblith and Alvin Goldman, Jane Duran seeks to heighten awareness of relevant areas of t…
Naturalized Foundationalism
Naturalized Foundationalism
Worlds of Knowing
Preface Acknowledgments Part 1: Beginnings Chapter 1: Knowledge/Foci Examining the Poststructuralist Challenge Postcolonialism and Its Impact on Theorizing Knowledge, the Epistemic and Frames of Categorization Women's Appropriation of Knowledge The View from Everywhere Part 2: Asian Focal Points Chapter 2: Northern India and Its Cultures Androcentrism and Its Manifestations The Strands of the Feminine An Historical View of Women Women of Northern…
Wittgenstein, feminism and theory
An attempt is made to try to delineate the common ground of feminist concerns and the work of Wittgenstein by alluding to several areas of theory - among them are the orality-literacy distinction, the notion of the universal, and the realm of particulars. I cite portions of both the Tractatus and the Investigations, and utilize the work of commentators such as Anscombe, Fogelin and Genova. The broader argument is that Wittgenstein’s turn away fro…
Sartre, Gender Theory and the Possibility of Transcendence
Several lines of analysis support the contention that Sartre’s theorizing can be used to bolster feminist concerns. Both philosophical and literary works are examined, and Notebooks for an Ethics, The Flies and The Respectful Prostitute are examined at some length. The commentary of Flynn, Bell and Pellauer is employed, and in general the argument relies on the notion that the construction of the for-itself, along with Sartre’s generalized portra…
Yoruba Work and Art Categorization
The Philosophical Camus
Walker’s Appeal
African NGO’s and Womanism
It is argued that womanism, a concept often associated with Black American women writers, is a driving force behind much of the activity of many West African cultures, including their current work with Non-Governmental Organizations (NGO’s). The historical nature of womanism, both on the continent and in the Americas is addressed, and microcredit and NGO work in other areas held up to contrast. The conclusion is that women-oriented microcredit pr…
Arendt and the social
Material from Hannah Arendt’s The human condition, and commentary by Peter Baehr, is used to support the contention that her position in her classic ‘Reflections on Little Rock’ essay is inconsistent and untenable. It is argued that Arendt’s crucial use of terms such as ‘public’, ‘social’ and ‘political’ militates against the notion that school desegregation should not be imposed on the population as a whole
Gender and the Thought of Cornel West
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