March 29, 2002
Mulling (Not Hulling) Jane Addams
In Pragmatism: A Reader (Vintage, 1997), the most widely used anthology of writings from the line of thinkers said to represent America's chief contribution to philosophy, only one woman appears among the usual suspects -- Charles Sanders Peirce, William James, Oliver Wendell Holmes, John Dewey, and George Herbert Mead -- presented as the "First Generation."
She is, of course, Jane Addams (1860-1935), America's social worker supreme, saintly cofounder of Hull House in 1889, winner of
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