lecture 1: Dr. Shay Welch on “Introduction”

Dr. Shay Welch is Chair of FEAST, Associate Professor of Philosophy and 2020-2021 Carnegie Corporation and Rockefeller Foundation Distinguished Research/Creative Scholar at Spelman College, Georgia, USA.

Suggested readings:

  • Cajete, Gregory.  Native Science: Natural Laws of Interdependence.  Santa Fe: Clear Light Publishers, 2000. 

  • Gallagher and Dan Zahavi.  The Phenomenological Mind.  New York: Routledge Press, 2012. 

  • Gallagher, Shaun.  How the Body Shapes the Mind.  Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2006. 

  • Pateman, Carole.  The Sexual Contract.  Stanford University Press, 1988. 

  • Mills, Charles.  The Racial Contract.  Cornell University Press, 1997. 

  • Mills, Charles and Carole Pateman.  Contract and Domination.  Polity Press, 2007. 

  • Norton-Smith, Thomas.  The Dance of Person & Place: One Interpretation of American Indian Philosophy.  Albany: SUNY Press, 2010. 

  • Young, Iris Marion. On Female Body Experience: “Throwing Like a Girl” and Other Essays.  Oxford University Press, 2005.

See also: Dr. Welch’s talk on embodied cognition, on YouTube.