The dance of person and place
Subtitle: one interpretation of American Indian philosophy
By: Thomas M. Norton-Smith.
Series: SUNY series in living indigenous philosophies
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Albany, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 164
ISBN-13: 9781438431338; 9781438431321
Subjects: Indian philosophy -- North America
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Common themes in American Indian philosophy; title: First introductions; title: Common themes : a first look; title: Constructing an actual American Indian world; title: NelsonGoodman's constructivism; title: Setting the stage; title: Fact, fiction, and feeders; title: Ontological pluralism; title: True versions and well-made worlds; title: Nonlinguistic versions and the advancement of understanding; title: True versions and cultural bias; title: Constructive realism : variations on a theme by Goodman; title: True versions and cultural bias; title: An American Indian well-made actual world; title: Relatedness, native knowledge, and ultimate acceptability; title: Native knowledge and relatedness as a world ordering principle; title: Native knowledge and truth; title: Native knowledge and verification; title: Native knowledge and ultimate acceptability; title: An expansive conception of persons; title: A western conception of persons; title: Native conceptions of animate beings and persons; title: An American Indian expansive conception of persons; title: The semantic potency of performance; title: Opening reflections and reminders about performances; title: Symbols and their performance; title: The Shawnee naming ceremony; title: Gifting as a world constructing performance; title: Closing remarks about the semantic potency of performances; title: Circularity as a world ordering principle; title: Goodman briefly revisited; title: Time, events, and history or space, place, and nature?; title: Circularity as a world ordering principle; title: Circularity and sacred places; title: Closing remarks about circularity as a world ordering principle; title: The dance of person and place; title: American Indian philosophy as a dance of person and place; title: Consequences, speculations, and closing reflections.