Marjorie Grene

As Of 2005 she is professor emerita of philosophy at Virginia Tech .

Her first degree was in Zoology , from Wellesley College ; she then received a doctorate in philosophy from Radcliffe College . She studied with Martin Heidegger and Karl Jaspers , leaving Germany in 1933. She was in Denmark in 1935, and then at the University Of Chicago . After losing her position there during World War II she spent 15 years as a mother and farmer.

WORKS

''Philosophers Speak for Themselves: From Descartes To Kant. Readings in the Philosophy of the Renaissance and Enlightenment'' (1940) editor with Thomas Vernor Smith

''Philosophers Speak for Themselves: From Descartes to Locke'' (1958) editor with T. V. Smith

'' Philosophers Speak for Themselves: Berkeley, Hume and Kant'' (1963) editor with T. V. Smith

''The Anatomy of Knowledge: Papers Presented to the Study Group on Foundations of Cultural Unity, Bowdoin College, 1965 and 1966; '' (1969) editor

''Laughing and Crying: A Study of the Limits of Human Behavior by Helmuth Plessner '' (1970) translator with James Spencer Churchill

''Interpretations of Life and Mind: Essays Around the Problem of Reduction'' (1971) editor

''Dimensions Of Darwinism : Themes And Counterthemes In Twentieth-Century Evolutionary Theory'' (1983) editor

''Muntu : African Culture and the Western World by Janheinz Jahn '' (1990) translator

''Interactions. The Biological Context of Social Systems'' (1992) with Niles Eldredge

''Descartes and His Contemporaries: Meditations, Objections, and Replies '' (1995) editor with Roger Ariew

''The Mechanization of the Heart: Harvey and Descartes by Thomas Fuchs '' (2001) translator

''Malebranche's First and Last Critics: Simon Foucher and Dortous De Mairan'' (2002) with Richard A. Watson;

REFERENCE

''The Philosophy of Marjorie Grene'' (2002) edited by Randall E. Auxier and Lewis Edwin Hahn

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