About

Emily Grosholz is the Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of Philosophy, English, and African American Studies at Pennsylvania State University. Her professional work includes organizing a conference on “The Thought of W. E. B. Du Bois” in March 1992, which resulted in the publication of a volume titled W. E. B. Du Bois on Race and Culture: Philosophy, Politics, Poetics, co-edited with James Stewart and Bernard Bell. She contributed significantly to the editors’ introduction and authored an essay titled “Nature and Culture in Du Bois's Quest of the Silver Fleece.” Grosholz has been involved in developing courses that intersect philosophy and African American studies, including African American Philosophy and a course on Science, Women, and Traditional Knowledge, which explores the integration of Western scientific knowledge with traditional knowledge to address issues of poverty and environmental degradation. Her work reflects a focus on African American and African Diaspora history and culture, emphasizing the philosophical and cultural contributions of African American thinkers and the intersection of philosophy with social justice and environmental issues.

Research topics

• Computer Science
• Sociology
• Humanities
• Biology
• Ecology
• History
• Economics
• Geography
• Philosophy
• Demography

Selected publications

• Commemoratory Poems

  Rutgers University Press eBooks · 2022-10-12

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• After the Revolution

  Liverpool University Press eBooks · 2021

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  • Computer Science
  • Computer Science
  • History
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• On the plains and prairies of Minnesota: The role of mathematical statistics in biological explanation

  Synthese · 2021

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  • Sociology
  • Ecology
  • Geography
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• Roi Wagner. <i>Making and Breaking Mathematical Sense: Histories and Philosophies of Mathematical Practice</i>. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2017. Pp. 256. $45.00 (cloth). ISBN 978-0-691-17171-5.

  HOPOS The Journal of the International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science · 2020-03-01

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• L’Épistémologie du dedans

  Rencontres · 2020

  • Humanities
  • Philosophy
  • Humanities

  Ce recueil, qui fait dialoguer historiens, philosophes et mathématiciens, rend hommage à l’œuvre de Hourya Benis-Sinaceur, spécialiste internationalement reconnue d'histoire et de philosophie des mathématiques.

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• Great Circles: The Transits of Mathematics and Poetry

  2019-07-10 · 5 citations

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• Bridges Linz 2019: Mathematical Art Exhibition

  Journal of Mathematics and the Arts · 2019-12-09 · 1 citations

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  This review of mathematical art exhibited at Bridges Linz in 2019 focusses on the use of two 20th c. mathematical developments, the theory of tilings and aperiodic order, and of fractals, in the work of Dugan Hammock, Ryan Webb, Lisa Shier, Doug Dunham, Pallavi Nataragan, Peter Stempfli, Saara Lehto, Andrea Dozmati, Hans Kuiper, Bernat Espigulé, Mingjang Chen, Flora Olivier, Kevin Lee and Demian Nahuel Goos Bosco.

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• Figures of Speech and Figures of Thought

  The Mathematical Intelligencer · 2019-10-07

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• Childhood and Vibrant Stasis in Olga Sedakova’s Poetry

  University of Wisconsin Press eBooks · 2019-02-12

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• Hyperspace, Poetic Science Fiction and Algebraic Topology

  Bridges 2018 Conference Proceedings · 2018-01-01

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Frequent coauthors

• Yves Bonnefoy

  7 shared

• Dirk Schlimm

  3 shared

• Bernard W. Bell

  Rutgers Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights

  2 shared

• Douglas Jesseph

  University of South Florida

  2 shared

• Roald Hoffmann

  Cornell University

  2 shared

• Sun-Joo Shin

  2 shared

• Julia Randall

  Boston University

  2 shared

• Gerhard Heinzmann

  2 shared

Education

• Ph. D. , Philosophy

  Yale University

  1978

• B. A., Ideas and Methods

  University of Chicago

  1972