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{"title":"Seeing life steadily: Dorothy Emmet’s philosophy of perception and the crisis in metaphysics","authors":"Peter West","doi":"10.1080/09608788.2023.2256363","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09608788.2023.2256363","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACTThe aim of this paper is to outline Dorothy Emmet's (1904–2000) account of perception in The Nature of Metaphysical Thinking (published in 1945). Emmet's account of perception is part of a wider attempt to rehabilitate metaphysics in the face of logical positivism and verificationism (of the kind espoused most famously by A. J. Ayer). It is thus part of an attempt to stem the tide of anti-metaphysical thought that had become widespread in British philosophy by the middle of the twentieth century. Emmet does not fit neatly into the traditional story of twentieth-century British philosophy. She draws on figures like A. N. Whitehead and Henri Bergson much more extensively than figures like Russell or Moore – and thus straddles the so-called ‘analytic-continental divide.’ My aim in this paper is to put Emmet on the map of twentieth-century British thought by outlining her philosophy of perception, highlighting her proposals for a way forward for metaphysics in a time of crisis, and identifying the ways she preempts movements in contemporary philosophy of perception.KEYWORDS: Dorothy EmmetperceptionWhiteheadBergsonmetaphysics AcknowledgementsMany thanks to Matyáš Moravec and Emily Thomas for constructive feedback on earlier versions of this paper. Thanks also to participants at the Wartime Quartet: Significance, Legacy, Spirit conference, organized by the (women) in parenthesis project (Clare Mac Cumhaill and Rachael Wiseman), for feedback on a version of this paper.Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Notes1 Henceforth, I abbreviate The Nature of Metaphysical Thinking to ‘NMT’.2 Parts of Chapters VII and IX of NMT were previously published as Emmet, “Analogies in Metaphysics”.3 Exceptions include Leemon McHenry’s entry in a chapter on “Whitehead’s Contemporaries” in Handbook of Whiteheadian Process Thought (McHenry, “Whitehead’s Contemporaries”). See also Turner, “Deflated Functionalism” for a paper on Emmet and the sociologist Robert Merton. Emmet also appears briefly in the conclusion of Wiseman, “Metaphysical Thinking”, 91. In this paper, I go further than these papers, which focus on Emmet’s connection to more established figures, and emphasise the degree to which Emmet was an original thinker. Aside from these papers, I am aware of a handful of scholars working on (or who plan to work on) Emmet’s philosophy in the future, including Lawrence Blum. In particular, my reading of The Nature of Metaphysical Thinking was informed by a talk given by Fraser McBride in Durham in 2022 (https://www.womeninparenthesis.co.uk/british-twentieth-century-women-philosophers-on-science/). When it comes to the biographical details of Emmet’s life, alongside McHenry’s paper, I am indebted to obituaries in The Guardian and The Times from 2000.4 Emmet would continue to discuss the topic of perception in her writings on Whitehead and process philosophy (see, e.g. Emmet, “Whitehead and Alexander”), but NMT contains h","PeriodicalId":51792,"journal":{"name":"British Journal for the History of Philosophy","volume":"176 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135060028","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Comparisons in the history of philosophy: a review of <i>The metaphysics of Margaret Cavendish and Anne Conway: monism, vitalism, and self-motion</i> Comparisons in the history of philosophy: a review of <i>The metaphysics of Margaret Cavendish and Anne Conway: monism, vitalism, and self-motion</i> , by Marcy P. Lascano, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2023, pp. 240, £54.00 (hb), ISBN: 9780197651636","authors":"Peter West","doi":"10.1080/09608788.2023.2250816","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09608788.2023.2250816","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51792,"journal":{"name":"British Journal for the History of Philosophy","volume":"117 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135148654","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Comments on Samantha Matherne’s <i>Cassirer</i>","authors":"Sebastian Luft","doi":"10.1080/09608788.2023.2239025","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09608788.2023.2239025","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51792,"journal":{"name":"British Journal for the History of Philosophy","volume":"77 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135979917","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Nothing less than the whole Cassirer","authors":"Tobias Endres","doi":"10.1080/09608788.2023.2238780","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09608788.2023.2238780","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51792,"journal":{"name":"British Journal for the History of Philosophy","volume":"28 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135982598","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Cassirer on method, the a priori, and culture: a reply","authors":"Samantha Matherne","doi":"10.1080/09608788.2023.2239026","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09608788.2023.2239026","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51792,"journal":{"name":"British Journal for the History of Philosophy","volume":"25 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135980216","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"More on knowledge before Gettier","authors":"Pierre Le Morvan","doi":"10.1080/09608788.2023.2247450","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09608788.2023.2247450","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51792,"journal":{"name":"British Journal for the History of Philosophy","volume":"77 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135981992","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"An inconsistency in Cassirer’s conception of the a priori","authors":"Scott Edgar","doi":"10.1080/09608788.2023.2239022","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09608788.2023.2239022","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51792,"journal":{"name":"British Journal for the History of Philosophy","volume":"17 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135980066","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Unifying themes and irresolvable tensions in Cassirer's system of symbolic forms","authors":"Katherina Kinzel","doi":"10.1080/09608788.2023.2239024","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09608788.2023.2239024","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51792,"journal":{"name":"British Journal for the History of Philosophy","volume":"43 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135979921","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Materialism from Hobbes to Locke","authors":"Ruth Boeker","doi":"10.1080/09608788.2023.2242405","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09608788.2023.2242405","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51792,"journal":{"name":"British Journal for the History of Philosophy","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2023-08-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47173533","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Synthesis and analysis: Jean Nicod as a mediator between Bergson and Russell","authors":"Ties Van Gemert","doi":"10.1080/09608788.2023.2240394","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09608788.2023.2240394","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51792,"journal":{"name":"British Journal for the History of Philosophy","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2023-08-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41918124","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}