Talk:Pamela Sue Anderson

Photograph?

Hmm. – Kaihsu 18:16, 5 March 2007 (UTC)

I was expecting something more then a few lines. I am a little disappointed. I was hoping that maybe some of Pamela Sue Anderson's ideas or arguments would be discussed here. I guess I will have to start it :) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Philo rani (talk • contribs) 01:37, 16 July 2014 (UTC)

Towards improving this entry.

02:12, 27 November 2018 (UTC)Hdjf3 (talk)

My aim is to contribute information to flesh out the article on Pamela Sue Anderson, an Oxford academic that died in 2017. Wikipedia staff advised that I should point to URLs, so as to enable someone with editing experience to work on them. Here is what I found across the internet >>> In the following text, Pamela Sue Anderson is shortened into ‘PSA’.

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https://www.oxfordmuse.com/?q=node/147

This shows an autobiographical interview released by PSA to the charitable trust ‘The Oxford Muse’. The title of the interview is ‘Pamela Sue Anderson In Conversation With Sophia Blackwell’.

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SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY

ITEM 01--(2015) Anderson, Pamela Sue, Leftow, Brian and Schellenberg, John L., Whither Philosophy of Religion?, Religious Studies 51 (3):441-454. XXXXXXXXXXX ITEM 02--(2015) Anderson, Pamela Sue, Leftow, Brian and Schellenberg, John L., ‘Bergsonian Intuition: A Metaphysics of Mystical Life’, Philosophical Topics, Jan. 2015. XXXXXXXXXXX ITEM 03--(2014) Anderson, Pamela Sue, ‘Shadows of the Past: Phantoms of the Negative and Traces of the Affective’, Literature and Theology, Volume 28, Issue 4, 1 December 2014, Pages 371–388. XXXXXXXXXXX ITEM 04--(2014) Anderson, Pamela Sue, ‘Lost Confidence and Human Capability: A Hermeneutic Phenomenology of the Gendered, yet Capable Subject’, Text Matters, Nov. 2014 XXXXXXXXXXX ITEM 05--(2014) Anderson, Pamela Sue, ‘A Joyful Dialogue with Spinoza and Others: Le Dœuff, Deleuze and the Ethics’, Paragraph, Nov. 2014 XXXXXXXXXXX ITEM 06--(2014) Anderson, Pamela Sue, ‘In the Guise of a Miracle’, Sophia, Jun. 2014 XXXXXXXXXXX ITEM 07--(2014) Anderson, Pamela Sue, ‘Obituary: Gillian O. Howie, 1965–2013’, Sophia, Jun. 2014 XXXXXXXXXXX ITEM 08--(2013) Anderson, Pamela Sue, ‘Love, Sexual Stereotypes, and Confidence’, Chapter, Jan. 2013 XXXXXXXXXXX ITEM 09--(2013) Anderson, Pamela Sue, ‘Abjection and Defilement: A Pre-linguistic condition for reading Ricoeur on sexual identity’, in Adam Graves (ed.), At the Boundaries of Thought: Paul Ricoeur and the Philosophy of Religion, Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press. XXXXXXXXXXX ITEM 10--(2012) Anderson, Pamela Sue, ‘Re-visioning Gender in Philosophy of Religion: Reason, Love and Epistemic Locatedness’, XXXXXXXXXXX London: Routledge. XXXXXXXXXXX ITEM 11--(2010) Anderson, Pamela Sue, and Bell, Jordan, ‘Kant and Theology’, London: T&T Clark Bloomsbury. XXXXXXXXXXX ITEM 12--(2010) Anderson, Pamela Sue (ed.), ‘New Topics in Feminist Philosophy of Religion: Contestations and Transcendence XXXXXXXXXXX Incarnate’, Dordrecht: Springer. XXXXXXXXXXX ITEM 13--(2008) Anderson, Pamela Sue, ‘Transcendence and Feminist Philosophy: On Avoiding Apotheosis’, chapter #2 of Gillian Howie and Jannine Jobling (eds.), ‘Women and the Divine / Touching Transcendence’, London: Palgrave Macmillan Springer Nature. XXXXXXXXXXX ITEM 14--(2006) Anderson, Pamela Sue, ‘Life, Death and Subjectivity: Realism and Recognition in Continental Feminism’, International Journal for Philosophy of Religion 60 (1-3):41-59. XXXXXXXXXXX ITEM 15--(2006) Anderson, Pamela Sue, ‘Divinity, Incarnation and Intersubjectivity: On Ethical Formation and Spiritual Practice’, Philosophy Compass / Wiley 1 (3):335-356. XXXXXXXXXXX ITEM 16--(2004) Anderson, Pamela Sue and Clack, Beverley (eds.), Feminist Philosophy of Religion: Critical readings’, Oxford: Blackwell Publishers. XXXXXXXXXXX ITEM 17--(2001) Anderson, Pamela Sue, ‘Gender and the infinite: On the aspiration to be all there is’, chapter length (pp. 191-212) in Long, E.T. (ed.), ‘Issues in Contemporary Philosophy of Religion’, Studies in Philosophy and Religion, vol 23, Dordrecht: Springer. XXXXXXXXXXX ITEM 18--(1997) Anderson, Pamela Sue, ‘A Feminist Philosophy of Religion: The rationality and myths of religious belief’, Oxford: Wiley - Blackwell Publishers. XXXXXXXXXXX ITEM 19--(1994) Anderson, Pamela Sue, ‘Agnosticism and Attestation: An Aporia concerning the Other in Ricoeur's ‘Oneself as Another’’, The Journal of Religion (the first version of this article was a paper presented in 1992 to the Sixth Conference on Literature and Religion held at the University of Glasgow, Scotland). XXXXXXXXXXX ITEM 20--(1993) Anderson, Pamela Sue, ‘Ricoeur and Kant: Philosophy of the Will’, Riga, Latvia: Scholars' Press SIA OmniScriptum Publishing.

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https://academic.oup.com/litthe/pages/virtual_issue_in_tribute_to_pamela_sue_anderson

This URL carries an text by Alison Jasper meant to introduce to the virtual issue of the journal ‘Literature and Theology’ dedicated to PSA.

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THIS INPUT WAS REDUNDANT (it was also mentioned further on) AND WAS REMOVED.

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Two obituaries, with information items:

https://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/2017/mar/24/pamela-sue-anderson-obituary

https://www.philosophy.ox.ac.uk/article/memoriam-pamela-sue-anderson-1955-2017

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THE LINK WHICH WAS HERE HAS BEEN REMOVED BECAUSE A WARNING FLASHED THAT IT IS ON WIKIPEDIA BLACKLIST If you type the Google query:

‘Ursula King on New Topics in Feminist Philosophy of Religion: Contestations and Transcendence Incarnate (Feminist Philosophy Collection), Dordrecht, Heidelberg, London, New York: Springer 2010, xiv + 338 pp., Euro 139.95, ISBN 978-1-4020-6832-4; e-ISBN 978-1-4020-6833-1’

in the list of Google hits you should see

  ‘[PDF] REVUIEW OF PAMELA SUE ANDERSON, ed., NEW TOPICS ...’

and, on clicking on it, you may download the file 8168-14705-1-PB.pdf, which is a review by Ursula King, University of Bristol, England, of the following book edited by PSA:

New Topics in Feminist Philosophy of Religion: Contestations and Transcendence Incarnate (Feminist Philosophy Collection), Dordrecht, Heidelberg, London, New York: Springer 2010, xiv + 338 pp., Euro 139.95, ISBN 978-1-4020-6832-4; e-ISBN 978-1-4020-6833-1

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https://thedisorderofthings.com/tag/pamela-sue-anderson/

PSA remembered by Lara Montesinos Coleman, senior lecturer at University of Sussex.

Lara M. Coleman's text includes these URLs:

http://www.womeninparenthesis.co.uk/read-pamela-sue-andersons-iwd-keynote/

https://thedisorderofthings.com/2015/07/03/the-dissonance-of-things-1-sexism-in-academia/

https://strategicmisogyny.wordpress.com/about/

https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/mansplaining-definition-history

http://davidberliner.over-blog.com/2017/08/how-to-get-rid-of-your-academic-fake-self.html

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https://www.researchgate.net/scientific-contributions/2065988480_Pamela_Sue_Anderson

http://www.oxfordhandbooks.com/view/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199544486.001.0001/oxfordhb-9780199544486-e-48

https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/489653

https://www.adlibris.com/se/bok/kant-and-theology-9780567034151

https://www.tanum.no/_a-feminist-philosophy-of-religion-pamela-sue-anderson-9780631193838

The URLs above provided the following abstracts of PSA's texts from [A] to [N] >>>

[A] ARTICLE – ‘Whither philosophy of religion?’ JOURNAL – Sept. 2015 Religious Studies AUTHORS – Brian Leftow, Pamela Sue Anderson, J. L. Schellenberg ABSTRACT – The post-war expansion of university faculties climaxed in the early 1970s. Since then, there have been more professional philosophers than ever before in history: a startling claim, but sober truth. In analytic philosophy, they have worked with more rigour and better training than even the Scholastics. It would take a surprising lack of talent among us, or perhaps argue some deep defect in the questions we ask, if the result were not more progress in philosophy than most periods can boast. And in fact, those who know what progress in philosophy looks like can see a lot of it: just compare Malcolm's 1960 piece on the ontological argument with Plantinga's 1974 treatment in The Nature of Necessity , and then both with Oppy's book on the subject.

[B] ARTICLE – ‘Bergsonian Intuition: A Metaphysics of Mystical Life’ JOURNAL – Jan .2015 Philosophical Topics AUTHOR – Pamela Sue Anderson ABSTRACT – In this paper I explore a "variation" on the "theme" of intuition in the evolution of modern metaphysics. My aim is not to criticize A. W. Moore's account of intuition as one of two ways by which Bergson makes sense of things (the other way is analysis). Instead I will suggest the significance in extending Bergson's metaphysics to mystical life as "the 'very life of things' into which intuition installs itself." When the metaphysical drama, in The Evolution of Modern Metaphysics, reaches chapter 16, "Bergson: Metaphysics as Pure Creativity," Moore expresses astonishment that Bergson could have thought philosophers have ever agreed on aligning "analysis" in science with the impossibility of non-perspectival sense-making and "intuition" in metaphysics with the possibility of absolute (non-perspectival) knowledge. Using a method of intuition, not of analysis, as non-perspectival sense-making is the opposite of what Moore himself finds in other philosophical contributions to modern metaphysics as "a most general attempt to make sense of things." He takes an influential example: Bernard Williams associates analysis, not intuition, with the possibility of non-perspectival sense-making and absolute knowledge. My response defends Bergsonian intuition in giving it a positive-and, why not, non-perspectival?-role in metaphysics as mystical; that is, as unique and inexpressible life. Moore describes i ntuition in Bergson as both the faculty and the method for the evolution of new concepts and new ways of making sense of things. I will stress that Bergsonian intuition is "an effort to place oneself into a movement, such as that of philosophy itself," expressing "what is 'living in philosophers' rather than what is 'fixed and dead in theses.' " This mystical life pushes out the limits set up by Kant for metaphysics (and science) by allowing intuition (with analysis) to reach for absolute, non-perspectival knowledge.

[C] ARTICLE – ‘Shadows of the Past: Phantoms of the Negative and Traces of the Affective’ JOURNAL – Dec. 2014 Literature and Theology AUTHOR – Pamela Sue Anderson ABSTRACT – Originally presented in 2013, the centenary year of Paul Ricoeur’s birth, this ISRLC Annual Lecture proposed the creation of a new picture of affective memory. After his death in 2005, Ricoeur could be read differently. He had shown us how to elevate self-affection to a new level of symbolic understanding. Instead of merely accepting life’s inevitable march towards death, he uncovers affective traces, which survive and increase the intuitive power of memory. His symbols, which ‘give rise to thought’, are deepened and developed in his Deleuze-informed encounter with Bergson and Proust on memory. Living up to a new future, Ricoeur overcomes the ghost of Hegel, which haunts as a phantom of the negative, and allows shadows of the past to give way: to ‘the affirmation and the difference in the affirmation’. Thus Deleuze has, for Ricoeur, replaced the negative with the difference that makes all the difference.

[D] ARTICLE – ‘Lost Confidence and Human Capability: A Hermeneutic Phenomenology of the Gendered, yet Capable Subject’ JOURNAL – Nov. 2014 Text Matters AUTHOR – Pamela Sue Anderson ABSTRACT – In this contribution to Text Matters, I would like to introduce gender into my feminist response to Paul Ricoeur’s hermeneutic phenomenology of the capable subject. The aim is to make, phenomenologically speaking, “visible” the gendering of this subject in a hermeneutic problematic: that of a subject’s loss of confidence in her own ability to understand herself. Ricoeurian hermeneutics enables us to elucidate the generally hidden dimensions in a phenomenology of lost self-confidence; Ricoeur describes capability as “originally given” to each lived body; but then, something has happened, gone wrong or been concealed in one’s loss of confidence. Ricoeur himself does not ask how the gender or sex of one’s own body affects this loss. So I draw on contemporary feminist debates about the phenomenology of the body, as well as Julia Kristeva’s hermeneutics of the Antigone figure, in order to demonstrate how women might reconfigure the epistemic limits of human capability, revealing themselves as “a horizon” of the political order, for better or worse.

[E] ARTICLE – ‘A Joyful Dialogue with Spinoza and Others: Le Dœuff, Deleuze and the Ethics’ JOURNAL – Nov. 2014 Paragraph AUTHOR – Pamela Sue Anderson ABSTRACT – This essay argues for a Le Doeuffian dialogue with Spinoza's Ethics, intending the increase of affective knowledge and bodily power. This intention requires a striving to learn: first, what perhaps we do not already know; second, what our bodies can do; and third, to increase in joy. From this dialogue the reader can gain Spinozist knowledge of bodies, minds, affections, as well as gaining the power to affect and to be affected by other bodies. One of the features of this Le Doeuffian practice is a collective exploration of what makes dialogue productive and joyful, opening up new possibilities, especially for women in philosophy today.

[F] ARTICLE – ‘In the Guise of a Miracle’ JOURNAL – Jun. 2014 Sophia AUTHOR – Pamela Sue Anderson ABSTRACT – '[T]he new…always appears in the guise of a miracle'.Hannah Arendt, The Human Condition, second edition, with a new Introduction by Margaret Canovan (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998), p. 178.The first-ever special issue of an Anglo-American philosophy journal on ‘feminist philosophy of religion’ appeared in 1994.Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy, edited by Nancy Frankenberry and Marilyn Thie, 9/4 (Fall 1994). Until now, the only other journal which published a special feminist edition on philosophy of religion was the privately published, UK Society for Women in Philosophy journal, Women’s Philosophy Review no. 29 (2002), edited by Pamela Sue Anderson and Harriet Harris; see http://www.swipuk.org/datapubs/old/WPR%2029.pdf. The present special issue of Sophia: International journal for philosophy of religion, metaphysical theology and ethics marks the beginning of the third decade of feminist writings in Anglo-American philosophy of religion.

[G] ARTICLE – ‘Obituary: Gillian O. Howie, 1965–2013’ JOURNAL – Jun. 2014 Sophia AUTHOR – Pamela Sue Anderson ABSTRACT – The present special issue of Sophia on ‘feminist philosophy of religion’ is dedicated to Gillian O. Howie who died in 2013. This essay is a short obituary touching on Howie’s philosophical and personal legacy. The intention is to give a brief overview of Howie as a courageous woman with boundless intellectual curiosity and passionate commitments to feminist activities; these include writing and living her philosophical vision for creating a just society with collective political action. Howie inspired both women and men in philosophy—especially, but not only, feminist philosophers of religion—with her work on the critical role of sexual difference in life today.

[H] ARTICLE – ‘Love, Sexual Stereotypes, and Confidence’ JOURNAL – Jan. 2013 Chapter AUTHOR – Pamela Sue Anderson ABSTRACT – In my recent writings in philosophy of religion, I have proposed that “a thoughtful love oflife” can help enable a philosophical response to the violence of sexual stereotypes; this violence continues to undermine the dignity of human subjects in love. By being “thoughtful,” I mean a specifically philosophical disposition for assessing love as a cognitive and conative affection. “Conative” describes the motivation of the beloved in striving to affect, as much as to be affected by, her lover. Although the cognitive nature of this striving may not be immediately conscious, when love is recognized, its affective, conative, and cognitive dimensions become undeniable. Love recognized as a conative affection has a distinctive feel; and as a cognitive feeling, it has an intensity that varies from weak to strong. I have maintained that love’s negative formations (e.g., violence) are part of love’s imperfection; and that some twentieth-century French philosophers, despite or because of their reading of the Hegelian dialectic of the same and the other, have often unwittingly contributed to the pernicious nature of those models of self-deluded “love” that try to conceptualize a perfect union of male sameness and female otherness.

[I] TITLE – ‘Transcendence and Feminist Philosophy: On Avoiding Apotheosis’, chapter #2 of Gillian Howie & Jannine Jobling (eds.), ‘Women and the Divine / Touching Transcendence’, London: Palgrave Macmillan Springer Nature, 2008. AUTHOR – Pamela Sue Anderson ABSTRACT – This chapter intends to treat the title Women and the Divine: Touching Transcendence as a philosophical topic, offering one response to Luce Irigaray’s ‘Toward a Divine in the Feminine’ (Chapter 1 in this volume), while also drawing from her ‘Divine Women’ and ‘I Love to You’. I would like to raise a critical question for my readers: can Irigaray, or those who follow her, avoid the ethically debilitating forms of transcendence-in-immanence that Simone de Beauvoir successfully uncovers in the immanence of the female narcissist, lover, and mystic?

[J] TITLE – ‘Gender and the infinite: On the aspiration to be all there is’, a chapter (pp. 191-212) in Long, E.T. (ed.), ‘Issues in Contemporary Philosophy of Religion’, Studies in Philosophy and Religion, vol. 23, Dordrecht: Springer, 2001. AUTHOR – Pamela Sue Anderson ABSTRACT – 20th century philosophers of religion advanced sophisticated arguments about the existence of the theistic God and, by the end of the century, Anglo-American philosophers in particular tended to treat philosophy of religion as synonymous with a Christian account of the divine. Male and female philosophers assumed an unquestioning acceptance of the classical model of traditional theism. However, before the turn of the century a number of feminist philosophers of religion had begun to challenge this account on grounds of its gender-bias. While non-Western philosophers began to oppose the ethnocentrism or racism of Western claims in philosophy of religion, feminist philosophers criticized the traditional theistic conception of God for its idealization of exclusively male attributes.

[K] TITLE – ‘Feminism and Patriarchy’, The Oxford Handbook of English Literature and Theology; edited by Andrew Hass, David Jasper, and Elisabeth Jay, Mar. 2009, Subject: Religion, Theology and Philosophy of Religion, Religious Identity, Ethics, Literary and Textual Studies Online Publication Date: Sep 2009 DOI: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199544486.003.0 AUTHOR – Pamela Sue Anderson ABSTRACT – A major obstacle inherent in patriarchy remains its barely perceptible reality for all of those women and men whose lives have been decisively ordered by the rule of the father. Toni Morrison, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, captures the imperceptible reality of racial domination with imagery of a fishbowl. Her imagery reveals the ways in which apparently invisible structures of domination can suddenly become visible. With Morrison's cogent use of imagery in mind, this article examines patriarchy by revealing the transparent structure of male domination that has contained women's lives, and the ways in which feminism has emerged with this revelation. The bare outlines of the former are made evident here in a reading of English literature and theology; the latter can be seen as if the writer and reader were outside that ordered life, tackling ‘the obstacle which does not speak its name’.

[L] TITLE – ‘Ricoeur and Kant: Philosophy of the Will’. Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1993, pp. XVII + 147 AUTHOR – Pamela Sue Anderson ABSTRACT – This fine book by Pamela Sue Anderson provides a close reading of Paul Ricoeur's philosophy of the will from the perspective of Immanuel Kant's critical philosophy. Anderson argues that Ricoeur's work is an extension and refinement of Kant's dual-aspect notion of the subject, in which the subject is understood both active and passive, voluntary and involuntary, non-temporal and temporal. Anderson is particularly interested in the theological significance of Ricoeur's project, that is, in the way religious stories and symbols have the potential to mediate the dual-aspect nature of human experience. The book's first three chapters make Anderson's case concerning Ricoeur's fundamental indebtness to Kant's project.

[M] TITLE – ‘Kant and Theology’, London: T&T Clark Bloomsbury, 2010. AUTHORS – Pamela Sue Anderson and Jordan Bell ABSTRACT – This title presents an introduction to the influence of Kant's though on theology and the response from theology. The philosophy of Kant is widely acknowledged to have had a major impact on theology. However, due to the vastness and complexity of Kant's philosophical system, contemporary theologians and ethicists tend to steer clear of his actual writings and often exhibit a misunderstanding of his central ideas on reason, morality and religion. Anderson and Bell aim to make Kant accessible again to new generations of students and to challenge twenty-first century academics to return to Enlightenment rationality. "Kant and Theology" takes a fresh look at freedom, evil and human autonomy in Kant's "Critique of Pure Reason, Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals and Critique of Practical Reason", as well as his "Religion Within the Boundaries of Mere Reason" and "An Answer to the Question: What is Enlightenment?", demonstrating how these core texts can inform debates about a range of topics including salvation, purgatory, ritual practice and the role of reason for religious people today."The Philosophy and Theology" series looks at major philosophers and explores their relevance to theological thought as well as the response of theology.

[N] TITLE – A Feminist Philosophy of Religion : The Rationality and Myths of Religious Belief, Oxford: Blackwell, 1997 AUTHOR – Pamela Sue Anderson ABSTRACT – Bridging the traditionally separate domains of analytic and continental philosophies, Pamela Sue Anderson presents for the first time a feminist framework for studying the philosophy of religion. The author shows that to partake of truly feminist philosophy of religion is to participate in a review of the philosophical project in its entirety. She provides a critical analysis of the symbolic role given to women and desire in traditional configurations of philosophical reason. The author turns to feminist epistemologies and feminist refigurings of myth to gain new insights concerning rationality and belief. Anderson's work will be especially valuable to those readers seeking a philosophical account of the rationality of religious belief which does not deny the content of female desire. It will prove invaluable to upper level students ad teachers of religion, philosophy, and feminist studies, giving original insight into this rapidly expanding field of study.

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From the URL:

   https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/15665399.2001.10819707

a pdf file with the title ‘The Case for A Feminist Philosophy of Religion: Transforming Philosophy's Imagery and Myths’ can be retrieved whereby PSA's presents her views on how feminism understands philosophy of religion.

Finally, at:

   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NoXk1qJAo5M

there is a 2013 video titled ‘Why Philosophy of Religion?’ through which Prof. Anderson summarizes her understanding of philosophy of religion.

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[END OF LISTING]Hdjf3 (talk) 01:25, 27 November 2018 (UTC)