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Bibliography of the Writings of William Fontaine
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I have listed here all of the substantive professional writing that I believe Fontaine to have brought to some measure of completion. All the published work is discussed more fully in the biography; the unpublished work has not to my knowledge survived. : Fortune, matter and providence; a study of Ancius Severinus Boethius and Giordano Bruno. Scotlandville, La., . This is Fontaine’s Ph.D. dissertation in philosophy from . Pennsylvania’s dissertations were regularly printed in limited paperback editions, but I do not know why this one was printed only at Southern University in . The thesis contrasts the vision of Boethius to that of Bruno and argues that Bruno made Boethius’s views consistent. : ‘‘Philosophical Implications of the Biology of Dr. Ernest Just.’’ Journal of Negro History : –. This essay interprets Just’s speculations in biology in an attack on innate racial categories. : ‘‘An Interpretation of Contemporary Negro Thought from the Standpoint of the Sociology of Knowledge.’’ Journal of Negro History : –. This essay is a precursor to the article on ‘‘social determination’’ published in . : ‘‘Foreward.’’ Southern University Bulletin (March): v. Fontaine introduces Southern’s first research publication and claims objectivity for scholarly criticism. : ‘‘The Mind and Thought of the Negro of the United States as Revealed in Imaginative Literature, –.’’ Southern University Bulletin (March): –. A long, major, and significant essay that charts the dialectical evolution of African American thought and culture from Reconstruction to World War II. : ‘‘Social Determination in the Writings of American Negro Scholars.’’ American Journal of Sociology : –. Fontaine’s most astute piece of writing turns the arguments of Marxist and pragmatist criticism against the environmentalism of African American sociology. The piece has been reprinted in Leonard Harris, ed., Philosophy Born of Struggle: Anthology of Afro-American Philosophy from (Dubuque, Iowa: Kendall/Hunt Publishing Company, ). : ‘‘The Immediately Valuable in C. I. Lewis.’’ From the title, this paper delivered to the Fullerton Philosophy Club at Bryn Mawr College would have discussed the complex of empirical and normative elements in Lewis’s ethics. : ‘‘The Paradox of Counterfactual Terminating Judgments.’’ Journal of Philosophy : –. The essay contrasts the view on counterfactuals of C. I. Lewis and Nelson Goodman. : ‘‘Avoidability and the Contrary-to-Fact Conditional in C. I. Lewis and C. L. Stevenson .’’ Journal of Philosophy : –. The essay compares the two thinkers and argues that Stevenson has an unacknowledged debt to Lewis, whose views need to be argued for. : ‘‘Functionalism in the Social Sciences.’’ Fontaine delivered this lecture to the Fullerton Philosophy Club at Bryn Mawr College. : ‘‘Bias in Social Science.’’ This essay is listed in Fontaine’s biography for the Présence Africaine Sorbonne Conference in as published in a volume entitled Introduction to Social Science (), but I have found no such title with an essay by him. : ‘‘Of the Language and Paradoxes of Ruth Benedict’s Patterns of Culture.’’ This essay was submitted to the Journal of Philosophy in August but was never published. An educated guess tells me that it was a close relation to Fontaine’s essay in Philosophy of Science. : ‘‘Segregation and Desegregation in the United States: A Philosophical Analysis.’’ Présence Africaine –: –. This is an earlier but longer version of the ideas in his article on means and ends in Philosophy of Science. : ‘‘The Means End Relation and Its Significance for Cross-Cultural Ethical Agreement .’’ Philosophy of Science : –. This essay makes use of C. L. Stevenson’s emotive theory of ethics to suggest how social disputes may be resolved. : Review of Don Shoemaker, ed., With All Deliberate Speed, in Harvard Educational Review : –. In this review of a book on the Brown v. Board of Education decision, Fontaine is moderate and modest in his assessment. : ‘‘Toward a Philosophy of the American Negro Literature.’’ Présence Africaine –: –. French version: ‘‘Vers Une Philosophie de la Littérature Noire Américaine’’ in the French edition of Présence Africaine –: –. This essay draws on some of the analyses Fontaine had made earlier in ‘‘The Mind and Thought of the Negro’’ (). [52.14.130.13] Project MUSE (2024-04-20 05:15 GMT) –: Readings in Philosophy of the Social Science. Although this book was listed in a faculty activity report of and a sabbatical application of (for fall ) as a book being coedited by Fontaine and Sidney Axinn, then of Temple University, it was never published. : The Political and Social Thought of Contemporary African Leaders. This collection of papers to be edited by Fontaine was accepted for publication by the University of Pennsylvania Press in but never delivered. The papers were presented at a series of...
