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APA NEWSLETTER on Philosophy and the Black Experience NEWSLETTER | The American Philosophical Association Philosophy and the Black Experience SPRING 2020 VOLUME 19 | NUMBER 2 FROM THE EDITORS Stephen C. Ferguson II and Dwayne Tunstall SUBMISSION GUIDELINES AND INFORMATION FOOTNOTES TO HISTORY Joyce Mitchell Cook (1933–2014) ARTICLES Anwar Uhuru Textual Mysticism: Reading the Sublime in Philosophical Mysticism Alfred Frankowski and Michael L. Thomas Spectacle Lynching, Sovereignty, and Genocide: A Dialog with Al Frankowski Leonard Harris Purdue University and President Mitch Daniels: Confession of a Rare Creature VOLUME 19 | NUMBER 2 SPRING 2020 © 2020 BY THE AMERICAN PHILOSOPHICAL ASSOCIATION ISSN 2155-9708 APA NEWSLETTER ON Philosophy and the Black Experience STEPHEN C. FERGUSON II AND DWAYNE TUNSTALL, CO-EDITORS VOLUME 19 | NUMBER 2 | SPRING 2020 FROM THE EDITORS For this issue, we begin with our annual “Footnotes to Stephen C. Ferguson II History” spotlighting Joyce Mitchell Cook—the first African NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY American woman professional philosopher—who passed away in 2014. Next, we have a contribution from Anwar Dwayne Tunstall Uhuru (Monmouth University). Uhuru’s essay-review of GRAND VALLEY STATE UNIVERSITY Anthony Neal’s 2019 book Howard Thurman’s Philosophical Mysticism: Love against Fragmentation explores Neal’s As co-editors of the newsletter, it is with a deep sense reading of Thurman’s philosophical mysticism and its of sadness that we announce the death of the Black place in African American philosophical history. Next, philosopher Kenneth Allen Taylor (1954–2019), the Henry we have a philosophical dialogue between Michael L. Waldgrave Stuart Professor of Philosophy at Stanford Thomas and Alfred Frankowsi on the relationship between University. From 2001 to 2009, Taylor was the chair of lynching, extra-State violence and genocide. And our last Stanford’s philosophy department. He was the first African contributor, Dr. Leonard Harris, is, of course, no stranger American to chair a philosophy department at an Ivy League to us; he is a former editor and book review editor of institution. While individuals such as Alain Locke, Eugene our newsletter. Harris’s article, “Purdue University and Holmes, Richard McKinney, Thomas Freeman, Jesse President Mitch Daniels: Confession of a Rare Creature,” Taylor, Samuel W. Williams, and Francis A. Thomas served offers “philosophical musings” about what it means to be a as chairs of philosophy departments, few had reached Black philosopher in the academic world in the twenty-first the heights that Taylor had. Since 2005, Taylor co-hosted century. a national syndicated radio show/podcast Philosophy Talk with John Perry. After serving as chair, Taylor became the director of the Symbolic Systems Program at Stanford, which blends computer science, psychology, linguistics, SUBMISSION GUIDELINES AND and philosophy, in a “study of the mind.” Taylor’s body of work, mainly in the fields of philosophy of language INFORMATION and philosophy of mind, include three books: Truth and Meaning: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Language; The APA Newsletter on Philosophy and the Black Experience Reference and the Rational Mind; and Meaning Diminished: is published by the committee on the status of Black Toward Metaphysically Modest Semantics. While Taylor philosophers. Authors are encouraged to submit original wrote relatively little that was immediately connected to articles and book reviews on any topic in philosophy the philosophy of the Black experience, we should not take that makes a contribution to philosophy and the black it to mean that he didn’t have determinate views on the experience broadly construed. The editors welcome philosophy of the Black experience. One of the co-editors submissions written from any philosophical tradition, as (Ferguson) remembers a spirited discussion I had with long as they make a contribution to philosophy and the Taylor in April of 2019 while visiting at Stanford University. black experience broadly construed. The editors especially Taylor and I went back and forth for about forty minutes welcome submissions dealing with philosophical issues about whether race was metaphysically real. Taylor was a and problems in African American and Africana philosophy. defender of Anthony Appiah’s Argument from Illusion or racial eliminativist argument; Appiah was coincidently All article submissions should be between 10 and 20 at Stanford—only a few tables away—when we were pages (double spaced) in length, and book reviews engaged in our spirited conversation. After our discussion, should be between 5 and 7 pages (double spaced) in I remember his wife, Claire Yoshida, saying to me, “I’m length. All submissions must follow the APA guidelines for glad you are challenging him on his views about race and gender-neutral language and The Chicago Manual of Style racism.” She further explained that their son, Kiyoshi Taylor, formatting. All submissions should be accompanied by a had also been raising questions about the validity and short biography of the author. Please send submissions veracity of Ken’s views on race and racism. We hope in the electronically to [email protected]. future to dedicate an issue to Taylor’s philosophical legacy. If anyone is interested in contributing an article on Taylor’s DEADLINES philosophical contribution, please contact either myself or Fall issues: May 1 Dwayne Tunstall. Spring issues: December 1 APA NEWSLETTER | PHILOSOPHY AND THE BLACK EXPERIENCE CO-EDITORS And while at Yale working on her doctorate, Cook studied Stephen C. Ferguson II, [email protected] with a range of well-known philosophers such as Wilfrid Dwayne Tunstall, [email protected] Sellars, F. S. C. Northrop, Rulon Wells, John Smith, and Paul Weiss. FORMATTING GUIDELINES • The APA Newsletters adhere to The Chicago Manual of Her dissertation focused on the American philosopher Style. Stephen C. Pepper’s Theory of Value. Yancy explains: “It was Wilfrid Sellars who assisted Cook in formulating her • Use as little formatting as possible. Details like page dissertation prospectus before he left Yale to teach at the numbers, headers, footers, and columns will be added University of Pittsburgh, and then Paul Weiss stepped in later. Use tabs instead of multiple spaces for indenting. as Cook’s dissertation director. In the end, however, it was Use italics instead of underlining. Use an “em dash” under the directorship of philosopher Rulon Wells that (—) instead of a double hyphen (--). Cook wrote and completed her dissertation.”1 • Use endnotes instead of footnotes. Examples of proper In 1966 she began teaching in the philosophy department endnote style: at the “Capstone of Negro Education,” Howard University. The distinguished historian David Levering Lewis notes John Rawls, A Theory of Justice (Cambridge: Harvard that Howard and Harvard were the most misogynistic University Press, 1971), 90. universities in the country.2 See Sally Haslanger, “Gender and Race: (What) Are They? Cook also taught for one year at Wellesley College (1961- (What) Do We Want Them To Be?” Noûs 34 (2000): 31–55. 1962) and two years at Connecticut College (1968–1970). In terms of other work experience, for about a year and a half, Cook worked for the State Department, where she worked as an analyst covering the affairs of various African FOOTNOTES TO HISTORY countries. After leaving the State Department, she worked for the now defunct Office of Economic Opportunity. Joyce Mitchell Cook (1933–2014) She left governmental work in 1966 to pursue a career in academia. Until the recent explosion of Black women professional philosophers, there were relatively few women in the In the early 1970s, during the formative historical period field. There are the well-known names such as Anita Allen, when only a small number of Black philosophers were Angela Davis, and Joy James. But before these women, working on the conceptual parameters of what constitutes there was Joyce Mitchell Cook. In 1965, after receiving the field of Black philosophy, Cook was actively involved in her doctorate from Yale University, Cook became the a number of significant panels and conference discussions first African American female professional philosopher. dedicated toward that end. This is paradoxical given This was the same year that Malcolm X was assassinated Cook’s tendency towards what Yancy describes as a “race at Manhattan’s Audubon Ballroom. Cook’s road was not transcending cosmopolitan spirit.” In November of 1970, at an easy one—given the vampire of sexism at Historically a conference on philosophy and the Black experience, at Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) in addition to the University of Illinois at Chicago Circle, Cook delivered predominantly white universities and colleges. a paper entitled “A Critique of Black Experience.” Later, in February of 1976, at the John A. Johnson Foundation in Cook was born on October 28, 1933, in Sharon, Pennsylvania, Madison Wisconsin, Cook, along with Black philosophers and died on June 6, 2014. She was the ninth of twelve William R. Jones and Robert C. Williams, engaged in an children of Reverend Isaac William Mitchell, Sr., and Mary extensive and insightful conversation about the nature of Belle Christman. According to a recently published essay Black philosophy.3 by George Yancy, her father was affiliated with the Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)—a non-denominational sect of Unfortunately, Cook was denied tenure at Howard the “holiness Christian movement” with roots in Wesleyan University. Under the dark
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