Andrea Nye

Andrea Nye (born 1939) is a feminist philosopher and writer.[1][2] Nye is a Professor Emerita at the University of WisconsinWhitewater for the Philosophy and Religious Studies Department and an active member of the Women's Studies Department.[3] In 1992, Nye received the University of WisconsinWhitewater Award for Outstanding Research.[4]

Life and career

Andrea Nye was born on October 22, 1939, in Philadelphia to attorney Hamilton Connor and home-maker Florence Deans.[5] Nye received a B. A. in philosophy from Radcliffe College (Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study) in 1961 and a Ph. D in Philosophy from the University of Oregon in 1977.[5][6][7] Nye has been affiliated with the University of Wisconsin—Whitewater for decades; first as an assistant professor from 1978 to 1985, then as an associate professor from 1985–1990, followed by a position as a professor of philosophy from 1990–2002.[5] Nye has been a professor emeritus for the philosophy and religious studies department since 2002.[5] Andrea Nye is also a member of the Liberal Studies Division at the Boston Conservatory teaching interdisciplinary courses in the Humanities.[8]

Nye's early work in philosophy of language included a thesis on private language and a monograph on the history of logic from a feminist perspective.[9][10] In subsequent work, Nye turned more specifically to issues related to gender in language, the place of women in the history of philosophy, and feminist theory.[11] Reviving the work of neglected or misinterpreted women thinkers was of special interest in later work,[1] including translations and commentary on the letters of Elisabeth of the Palatinate to René Descartes (The Princess and the Philosopher), the political thought of Rosa Luxemburg, Hannah Arendt, and Simone Weil (Philosophia) and most recently, Diotima’s teaching on erotic desire in Plato’s Symposium (hl)(Socrates and Diotima).[1]

Publications

Edited Works
  • — (1998). Philosophy of Language: The Big Question's London and New York: Blackwell, ISBN 978-0-631206026

References

  1. 1 2 3 Linda A. Krikos; Cindy Ingold (2004). Women's Studies: A Recommended Bibliography. Libraries Unlimited. pp. 649–51. ISBN 978-1-56308-566-6.
  2. "Nye, Andrea - American Women Writers: A Critical Reference Guide from Colonial Times to the Present | Encyclopedia.com". encyclopedia.com. 2015. Retrieved 24 February 2015.
  3. Karen J. Warren (2008). An Unconventional History of Western Philosophy: Conversations Between Men and Women Philosophers. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. p. 553. ISBN 978-0-7425-6460-2.
  4. "UW-Whitewater Award for Outstanding Research". University of Wisconsin-Whitewater.
  5. 1 2 3 4 "Nye, Andrea 1939–". HighBeam Research - Cengage Learning.
  6. "Participant Interest 98". Dartmouth College.
  7. Andrea Nye (1999). The Princess and the Philosopher: Letters of Elisabeth of the Palatine to René Descartes. Rowman & Littlefield. p. 187. ISBN 978-0-8476-9265-1.
  8. Dermot Moran (2008). The Routledge Companion to Twentieth Century Philosophy. Routledge. p. 11. ISBN 978-1-134-42403-0.
  9. Jody Bart (2000). Women Succeeding in the Sciences: Theories and Practices Across Disciplines. Purdue University Press. p. 195. ISBN 978-1-55753-122-3.
  10. "The Feminist Critique [Repudiation] of Logic". Noretta Koertge (Indiana University).
  11. "Analytic Feminism". Stanford University.
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