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Show Acknowledgements to Volume II xxii McGraw, David Reed-Maxfield, Joel Richeimer, Laura Shanner, Cristel Steinvorth, and Sigrun Svavarsdottir; and fifteen years' worth of brilliant and feisty undergraduates at Wellesley College. Chapter I of both volumes, "General Introduction to the Project: The Enterprise of Socratic Metaethics," was drafted during an unpaid leave of absence from Wellesley College during early 1998 and funded by an NEH College Teachers' Research Fellowship. The NEH support came at a crucial moment and I am deeply grateful for it. This chapter incorporates and modifies some passages and sections of my "Two Conceptions of the Self," published in Philosophical Studies 48, 2 (September l985), 173-197 and reprinted in The Philosopher's Annual VIII (1985), 222-246. The discussion of AngloAmerican philosophical practice that appears in Sections I.2 and I.3 benefited from comments by Anita Allen, Houston Baker, Paul Boghossian, Ann Congleton, Joyce Carol Oates, Ruth Anna Putnam and Kenneth Winkler, as well as by members of the audience to the 1994 Greater Philadelphia Philosophy Consortium symposium, "Philosophy as Performance" at which these remarks were originally presented. The chapter received its near-final form during my tenure as a Research Scholar at the Getty Research Institute during the academic years 1998-1999. For providing me with all of the conditions I requested - some very idiosyncratic - as necessary for me to make substantial progress on this and many other parts of this project, my gratitude to the Institute knows no bounds. My debt of thanks to Brian Davis, Larry Hertzberg, Karen Joseph, Michael Roth, and Sabine Schlosser is particularly great. While there I also benefited a great deal from discussion of these and related topics with Reinhart Meyer-Kalkus. I would also like to thank Naomi Zack for her interest and willingness to publish an earlier version of this chapter, despite its length, in her edited collection, Women of Color and Philosophy (New York: Blackwell, 2000). Earlier versions of Chapter II were delivered to the Association for the Philosophy of the Unconscious at the American Philosophical Association Eastern Division Convention in December 1986, Akeel Bilgrami commenting; the University of Minnesota Philosophy Department in November 1987; the Columbia University Philosophy Department in March 1988; and the "Moral Psychology and Moral Identity" Conference at Oberlin College in April 1995, Michael Stocker commenting. The present version has benefited greatly from audience comments and questions received on those occasions, and particularly from those of Akeel Bilgrami, Dick Boyd, Norman Dahl, Jay Garfield, Henry Mandel, Charles Parsons, Thomas Pogge, Michael Stocker and Joan Weiner, with whom I discussed at length an early draft in 1994. Chapter III has benefited greatly from my conversations with David Auerbach, Mark Kaplan, Glenn Loury, Ned McClennen, Robert Rubinowitz and Robert Paul Wolff, and from Kaplan's and Wolff's comments on earlier drafts. Joan Weiner provided valuable feedback when I was making final © Adrian Piper Research Archive Foundation Berlin |
