{"product_id":"why-context-matters-alicia-juarrero-9781788361378","title":"Why Context Matters: Or, Where Did Anglo-American Philosophy Go Wrong?","description":"Why 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.In 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Alicia Juarrero\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1788361377\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781788361378\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Imprint Academic (Ips)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/02\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 174\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.44lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.47h x 5.32w x 0.37d","brand":"Alicia Juarrero","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47761222893823,"sku":"9781788361378","price":29.9,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_8b0de589-7f44-4617-8ff0-bf1f57ec8a52.jpg?v=1765514673","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/why-context-matters-alicia-juarrero-9781788361378","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}