 Materials on Philosophy, Transcultural Communication and Multiculturalism   Africa: African Studies at Penn ( An extensive web site
sponsored by the AfricanStudies Center at the University of Pennsylvania which includes individual pages for African countries, Black/African Internet resources, and annotated African Web links -- edited by Dr. Ali B. Ali-Dinar.) Africa News Service's AfricaNews Online. (Welcome to Africa News on
the World Wide Web -- the one-stop source for up-to-date information on all of Africa, with reports from Africa's leading newspapers, magazines, and news agencies.) Australia: Aboriginal Studies WWW
Virtual Library: The Internet Guideto Aboriginal Studies ( An extremely good guide to Aboriginal Studies from Canberra, Australia, by Dr. T. Matthew Ciolek; includes a long listing of general resources and sections on Aboriginal languages as well as Aboriginal spirituality.) Clive Beck's Postmodernism, Pedagogy, and
the Philosophy of Education( For a response, see Walter Feinberg and Maxine Greene.) Homi Bhabha's Editor's Introduction:
Minority Maneuvers and UnsettledNegotiations. David Blacker's Education as the Normative
Dimension of PhilosophicalHermeneutics ( For a response, see James M. Giarelli.) Megan Boler's The Risks of Empathy:
Interrogating Multiculuralism'sGaze ( For a response, see William L. Blizek.) Brazil: Uma Janela para a Filosofia ( In
English; a Brazilian guide to philosophyresources by Sandro F. Reis; since there are few Brazilian sites, most of the sites listed here are international.) Timothy D. Chase's Objectivism: Dual
Foundationalism and the Core ofObjectivist Logic ( A web site in support of foundationalism; it includes the following divisions: (1) Introduction, (2) The Basic Idea behind Dual Foundationalism, (3) The Basis for Epistemic Normativity, (4) A Distinction Regarding Justification, (5) The Nature of Epistemic Norms, (6) The Core of Objectivist Logic, (7) Reference Tables.) Kai-Ming Cheng's Crossing Cultures: Educators
and Cultural Interactions. X. David Cheng's and Chuan
Zhou's Global Impact of China's
HigherEducation "Project 211." Angela Y. Davis' Afro Images: Politics,
Fashion, and Nostalgia ( This is anexcerpt from Davis' article.) Ann Diller's Pluralisms for Education: An
Ethics of Care Perspective ( For aresponse, see Audrey Thompson.) Ron Dorfman's Shattering Silences: The
Culture Wars and the GreatConversation. Brent Edwards' Prophet Motive: Brent
Edwards Explains the Backlashagainst Cornel West. The English Server's Resources
on Race, Feminism, Rhetoric and
CulturalTheory ( A web site listing numerous resources dealing with a wide range of topics and issues.) Gregory Eiselein's Cultural and Critical Theory ( A web site
which offers manyresources including a good list of links in feminist and women's studies.) Walter Feinberg's The Goals of Multicultural
Education: A CriticalReappraisal ( For two responses, see Barbara Houston and Kenneth A. Strike.) Walter Feinberg's Interpretation and the
Postmodern Condition ( This is aresponse to Clive Beck.) Stanley Fish's Boutique Multiculturalism,
or Why Liberals Are Incapableof Thinking about Hate Speech ( This is an excerpt from Fish's article; for a response, see Donald E. Pease.) Eugene T. Gendlin's On Cultural Crossing ( From the web
site on the After Post-modernism Conference -- Gendlin's notion of crossing may be a way out of the impasse of postmodernism. For a summary of the conference which was held on November 14-16, 1997, click here.) Eugene T. Gendlin's Crossing and Dipping: Some
Terms for Approachingthe Interface between Natural Understanding and Logical Formulation. Robert P. George's Vices Here and Abroad (George's
response to Yael Tamir.) Germany: Philosophie Seiten (
Click on the British flag for the English version of thisGerman guide to philosophy resources by Dieter Koehler.) Mark Graham's 'Legislators' and
'Interpreters' in Multicultural Under-standing. Maxine Greene's The Plays and Ploys of
Postmodernism ( This is a response toClive Beck.) Amy
Gutman's Challenges of
Multiculturalism in Democratic Education.( For a response, see Shirley Pendlebury.) Wouter van Haaften's and Ger
Snik's Foundational Development
withoutFoundationalism ( For a response, see Timo Airaksinen.) Lawrence M. Hinman's Ethics Updates: Literature
on Race, Ethnicity, andMulticulturalism ( An excellent web site for Supreme Court decisions, human rights resources, multiculturalism and racism resources, and affirmative action resources; it also includes a section on recent literature on race and ethnicity.) Wolgang Iser's On Translatability ( "This essay addresses the
question of translat-ability as a key concept for understanding encounters between cultures and interactions within cultures. In this view, translatability implies translation of otherness without subsuming it under preconcieved notions. In conclusion, this essay proposes a cybernetic model of cultural understanding based on recursive looping." See aslo Eddie Yeghiayan's bibliography of Wolfgang Iser. On-line essays on Iser include the follwing by Alexandra Reese, Cari Anne Phillips, and Karen A. Saks.) Sushil Jain's Separate Schools for
Minorities: Lessons of Multiculuralismfor Public Education. Japan: Philosphy Web Sites in Japan (
In English; a guide to philosophy, ethics, andreligion resources in Japan by K. Nagasaki.) F. M. Kamm's Is Body Intrusion Special? (Kamm's
response to Yael Tamir.) Kenneth Liberman's How a Word Means. Timothy Luke's From Nationality to
Nodality: How the Politics of Being
Digital Transforms
Globalization. Luise Prior McCarty's Out of Isolation:
Philosophy, Hermeneutics, Multi-culturalism ( For a response, see Deborah Kerdeman.) J. Maybee's African Philosophy Page. John C. Mallery's, Roger
Hurwitz's, and Gavan Duffy's Hermeneutics: FromTextual Explication to Computer Understanding? ( MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab provides an excellent background on philosophical hermeneutics in order to discuss recent hermeneutically-oriented AI research.Scroll down for the extensive table of contents.) Scott H. Moore's Resources for the Further
Study of the Thought ofCharles Taylor ( This web site includes other on-line essays by Taylor, reviews of and handouts on Taylor's works, and a photopraph of Taylor.) Netherlands: Filosofie (In English; a Dutch guide to
philosophy from Ger de Gooijerwhich includes Dutch philosophy and cultural resources.) Jessica Neuwirth's A Spark for Change (Neuwirth's response to Yael Tamir.) NOEMA: The Collaborative
Bibliography of Women in Philosophy. Norway: Filosofi - Idehistorie ( In English; a Norwegian
guide to philosophy resourceswhich includes links to Norwegian political parties by Nils Lie-Gjeseth.) Martha Nussbaum's Double Moral Standards? (Nussbaum's response to Yael Tamir.) Edward T. Oakes' Review of Charles Taylor's Multiculturalism
and " ThePolitics of Recognition " ( Princeton University Press ). Native America: Mitakuye
Oyasin's The Red Pathway: Learning
Center& Foundation Inc. Native American Philosophy (Includes links to the Newsletter of Native American Philosophy, articles, and an American Indian Link Exchange.) Lynn Parry's and Susan
Potgieter's Is There a Need for
InterculturalCommunication in the New South Africa? James Phillips' Key Concepts: Hermeneutics ( This
page presents a history of thedevelopment of hermeneutics from biblical exegesis to philosophy and finally to the way in which hermeneutics has been recently appropriated in psychiatry.) Project Vote Smart's Issues: Affirmative Action ( A web page with numerous linksto issues relating to affirmative action.) John Rothfork's Notes on Charles Taylor's
Essay The Politics ofRecognition and his Notes on Taylor's Abandonment of Foundationalism. ( See also Scott H. Moore's page of resources on Charles Taylor.) Amelie Oksenberg Rorty's The Moral Duty of Promoting
Political Conflict.( For a response, see Yael Tamir.) Christina Schaeffner's and
Beverly Adab's The Concept of the Hybrid
Textin Translation. Hans Julius Schneider's Calculus and Imagination:
Interplay of FixedStructure and Free Activity in Language. Richard A. Schweder's From " The Reason in
Relativism." Stacy Smith's Liberalism,
Multiculturalism,and Education: Is There a Fit?( For a response, see Richard Brosio.) Society for Women in
Philosophy's Home Page. Wim Staat's Ockham, Singularity, and
Multiculturalism: An OckhamistAnalysis of Singularity and Its Politico-legal Implications David Stern's The Body Finds Itself in
Language and Language Finds ItsHome in the Body. Sweden: The Philosophy Net ( In English; a guide to
philosophy resouces from Swedenby Daniel Roennedal which includes a Swedish section.) Taiwan: Taiwan Super Logos
Philosophy Web ( In English; a guide to
philosophy sites from Taiwan which includes a listing of Taiwan universities, philosophy associations, and Buddhist studies.) Yael Tamir's Hands Off Clitoridectomy. What Our Revulsion Reveals
about Ourselves.(See also Yael Tamir's response to her critics which include
M.Nussbaum, J. Neuwirth, F.M. Kamm, and R.P. George.) University of Iowa Libraries' Women's Studies: Feminist
Theory. University of Maryland's Diversity Database ( A web site which is a
comprehensiveresource index of multicultural and cultural diversity resources.) Lawrence Venuti's Translation and the
Formation of Cultural Identity ( Thisis an abstract of the article.) Willem L. Wardekker's Identity, Plurality, and
Education
( For a response, seeKathy Hytten.) Dario Zanon's Communitarianism: Open Site ( A web
site providing manyresources including a brief introduction to communitarianism.) MCC Home | Comm/Humanities Home | Philosophy Home | Faculty Pages | On-line Courses | Courses | Student Essays | Area Philosophy Departments | Philosophy Resources | Philosophy of Technology | Philosophy of Education | | Philosophy and Multiculturalism | Philosophy and Learning College | Web Authoring Resources | Libraries | Metropolitan Community College Omaha, Nebraska Last Revision: March 2, 1999 Please send comments or additional resource materials to Frank Edler ( fedler@mccneb.edu ) |