Andrea Nye

Andrea Nye was born on October 22, 1939, in Philadelphia to attorney Hamilton Connor and home-maker Florence Deans. Nye received a B. A. in philosophy from Radcliffe College (Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study) in 1961 and a Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Oregon in 1977.{{cite web|url=http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G2-2699100120.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150329183750/http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G2-2699100120.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=2015-03-29|title=Nye, Andrea 1939–|work=HighBeam Research - Cengage Learning}}{{cite web|url=http://www.dartmouth.edu/~coco25/general_files/Participant_Interest98.html|title=Participant Interest 98|work=Dartmouth College}}{{cite book|author=Andrea Nye|title=The Princess and the Philosopher: Letters of Elisabeth of the Palatine to René Descartes|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_i1_kUBrsEQC&pg=PA187|year=1999|publisher=Rowman & Littlefield|isbn=978-0-8476-9265-1|page=187}} Nye has been affiliated with the University of Wisconsin—Whitewater for decades; first as an assistant professor from 1978 to 1985, then as an associate professor from 1985 to 1990, followed by a position as a professor of philosophy from 1990 to 2002. Nye has been a professor emeritus for the philosophy and religious studies department since 2002. Andrea Nye is also a member of the Liberal Studies Division at the Boston Conservatory teaching interdisciplinary courses in the Humanities.{{cite book|author=Dermot Moran|title=The Routledge Companion to Twentieth Century Philosophy|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6u2BAgAAQBAJ&pg=PR11|year=2008|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-134-42403-0|page=11}}

Nye's early work in philosophy of language included a thesis on private language and a monograph on the history of logic from a feminist perspective.{{cite book|author=Jody Bart|title=Women Succeeding in the Sciences: Theories and Practices Across Disciplines|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=820lRoRr3H8C&pg=PA195|year=2000|publisher=Purdue University Press|isbn=978-1-55753-122-3|page=195}}{{cite web|url=https://philpapers.org/archive/KOETFC.pdf|title=The Feminist Critique [Repudiation] of Logic|work=Noretta Koertge (Indiana University)}} In subsequent work, Nye turned more specifically to issues related to gender in language, the place of women in the history of philosophy, and feminist theory.{{cite encyclopedia|url=http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/femapproach-analytic/|title=Analytic Feminism|encyclopedia=Stanford University|year=2021 }} Reviving the work of neglected or misinterpreted women thinkers was of special interest in later work, including translations and commentary on the letters of Elisabeth of the Palatinate to René Descartes (The Princess and the Philosopher), the political thought of Rosa Luxemburg, Hannah Arendt, and Simone Weil (Philosophia), and Diotima's teaching on erotic desire in Plato's Symposium (hl)(Socrates and Diotima).

Most recently, Nye's interests have turned to the environment, climate change, and the gap between ecological theorizing and environmental practice. In her most recent book Ecology on the ground and in the Clouds, she compares the life and thought of "inventor of nature" Alexander Humboldt to projects of conservation and sustainable farming in Argentina and Brazil initiated by his botanist travel companion Aimé Bonpland.{{Cite web|title=Ecology on the Ground and in the Clouds|url=http://www.sunypress.edu/showproduct.aspx?ProductID=7238&SEName=ecology-on-the-ground-and-in-th|access-date=2021-11-08|website=www.sunypress.edu}}

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• Andrea Nye (1986). [https://www.jstor.org/stable/3810065 Preparing the Way for a Feminist Praxis] Hypatia Vol. 1, No. 1, pp. 101-116
• — (1987). [https://www.jstor.org/stable/3174208 Woman Clothed with the Sun: Julia Kristeva and the Escape from/to Language] Signs Vol. 12, No. 4, Within and Without: Women, Gender, and Theory, pp. 664-686 University of Chicago Press
• {{cite book|author-mask=1|author=Andrea Nye|title=Feminist Theory and the Philosophies of Man|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WbxYAQAAQBAJ&pg=PP1|edition=2013|date=1987|publisher=Taylor & Francis|isbn=978-1-134-56702-7}}
• — (1989). [https://www.jstor.org/stable/3809787 The Hidden Host: Irigaray and Diotima at Plato's Symposium]. Hypatia Vol. 3, No. 3, French Feminist Philosophy, 45-61
• {{cite book|author-mask=1|author=Andrea Nye|jstor=2275421|title=Words of power: a feminist reading of the history of logic|year=1990|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-0-415-90199-4|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/wordsofpowerfemi0000nyea}}
• {{cite book|author-mask=1|author=Andrea Nye|title=Irigaray and Diotima at Plato's Symposium|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6f-anA7r0kQC&pg=PA197|year=1994|publisher=Penn State Press|isbn=0-271-01044-4|pages=197–216|chapter=Feminist Interpretations of Plato}}
• — (1996). "Polity and Prudence:The Ethics of Elisabeth, Princess Palatine," in Hypatia's Daughters: Fifteen Hundred Years of Women Philosophers McAlister, Linda Lopez, ed. Bloomington: Indiana University Press
• — (1996).[https://www.jstor.org/stable/3810327 Friendship across Generation] Hypatia Vol. 11, No. 3
• {{cite book|author-mask=1|author=Andrea Nye|title=Philosophia: The Thought of Rosa Luxemburg, Simone Weil, and Hannah Arendt|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7lIu-mSFOeQC&pg=PP1|edition=2013|year=1994|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-135-88247-1}}
• {{cite book|author-mask=1|author=Andrea Nyeb|jstor=3175105|title=Philosophy and feminism: at the border|year=1995|publisher=Twayne Publishers|isbn=978-0-8057-9778-7|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/philosophyfemini0000nyea}}
• — (1995). Feminist Impact on the Arts and Sciences Series: Philosophy and Feminism, Cengage Gale. {{ISBN|9780805797787}}
• {{cite book|author-mask=1|author=Andrea Nye|title=The Princess and the Philosopher: Letters of Elisabeth of the Palatine to René Descartes|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_i1_kUBrsEQC&pg=PP1|year=1999|publisher=Rowman & Littlefield|isbn=978-0-8476-9265-1}}
• {{cite book|author-mask=1|author=Andrea Nye|title=Feminism and Modern Philosophy: An Introduction|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XHBdOvqw2ZYC&pg=PP1|year=2004|publisher=Psychology Press|isbn=978-0-415-26655-0}}
• — (2015). Socrates and Diotima: Sexuality, Religion, and the Nature of Divinity. Palgrave Macmillan, {{ISBN|978-1137516015}}
• — (2022).{{Cite book|last=|title=Ecology on the Ground and in the Clouds|publisher=SUNY Press|year=2022|isbn=978-1-4384-8701-4|location=Albany, New York}}{{refend}}

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• — (1998). Philosophy of Language: The Big Question's London and New York: Blackwell, {{ISBN|978-0-631206026}}

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