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Notes Prologue: Defining Ontological Humility 1. David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, ed. Eric Steinberg (Indianapolis: Hackett, 1977); hereafter cited as ECHU with a page reference. 2. Søren Kierkegaard, Fear and Trembling with Repetitions, trans. Howard V. and Edna H. Hong (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1983), pp. 1–123; hereafter cited as FTR with a page reference. 3. Marilyn Frye, “In and Out of Harm’s Way: Arrogance and Love,” The Politics of Reality (Trumansburg, NY: The Crossing Press, 1983), pp. 52–83; hereafter cited as AL with a page reference. 4. This is not the case, for instance, in J. R. R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings, where Sauron’s evil is often evoked, but no claim is ever made that he might have broken something like “rules” governing his magic. 5. Martin Heidegger, Basic Writings, ed. David Farrell Krell (San Francisco : Harper, 1993), pp. 238–239; hereafter cited as BW with a page reference. 6. J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (New York: Scholastic Books, 2003), pp. 842–843. 7. J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (New York: Scholastic Books, 2005), p. 33. 8. J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, p. 670. 9. J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, pp. 36–37. 10. J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, p. 623. 11. J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (New York: Scholastic Books, 2007), p. 563. 12. Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, trans. David Ross (New York: Oxford University Press, 1980), 1123a–b. 13. Martin Heidegger, The Question Concerning Technology, trans. William Lovitt (New York: Harper, 1977), p. 116; hereafter cited as QT with a page reference. On how our (potential) omniscience came to replace God’s, see also Michel Foucault’s Las Meniñas in The Order of Things, trans. unattributed (New York: Vintage, 1973). 14. J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (New York: Scholastic Books, 1999), p. 314. 135 136 Notes to Prologue 15. J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (New York: Scholastic Books, 2000), p. 653. 16. J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, p. 708. 17. J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, p. 784. 18. J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone (New York: Scholastic Books, 1997), p. 291. 19. J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, p. 127. 20. Lorraine Code, “Skepticism and the Lure of Ambiguity,” Hypatia, vol. 21, no. 3 (Summer 2006): 222–228; hereafter cited as SLA with a page reference. 21. This difference will be discussed more fully in the next chapter, but it is worth noting that there is a middle position that shows up in some versions of American Pragmatism. The sometimes extremely subtle difference between Pragmatism and analytic philosophy, between Pragmatism and what Code calls Continental philosophy, and even among the Pragmatists themselves, however, would constitute too long a detour to permit a fuller explanation here. 22. A. J. Ayer, Language, Truth and Logic (New York: Dover, 1952), p. 32. 23. Robert R. Ammerman, ed. Classics of Analytic Philosophy (Indianapolis: Hackett, 1990), p. 2. 24. J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (New York: Scholastic Books, 2007), p. 563. 25. Reprinted in Naomi Scheman, Engenderings (New York: Routledge, 1993), pp. 245–249. 26. J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, p. 110. 27. Susan Bordo, The Flight to Objectivity (Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 1987). For another, nonfeminist, version of this argument with Heideggerian overtones, again, see Michel Foucault, The Order of Things. 28. On this see, for instance, Evelyn Fox Keller’s classic Reflections on Science and Gender (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1985). 29. Much has, of course, already been done to open it to feminist analysis from within Heidegger’s own tradition. See, for example, Feminist Interpretations of Martin Heidegger, eds. Nancy J. Holland and Patricia Huntington (University Park, PA: Penn State Press, 2001). 30. See his “Letter on Humanism” in Basic Writings, in note 5, cited above. 31. On this see, again, Evelyn Fox Keller, Reflections on Science and Gender. 32. CNN’s international branch is heavily supported by nations proudly advertising to American and European businesses the high educational level of their citizens and the low wages they can be paid. 33. See...

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