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LEWIS HAHN’S A CONTEXTUALISTIC WORLDVIEW  WINS A CHOICE MAGAZINE OUTSTANDING ACADEMIC BOOK AWARD FOR 2002   CHOICE Magazine recently named Lewis E. Hahn’s A Contextualistic Worldview to its thirty-seventh annual list of Outstanding Academic Titles, according to Irving E. Rockwood, editor and publisher. CHOICE is a monthly review journal published by the Association of College and Research Libraries.   This selection of articles by Lewis E. Hahn (professor emeritus of philosophy at Southern Illinois University Carbondale) addresses the philosophical school of contextualism and four contemporary American philosophers: John Dewey, Henry Nelson Wieman, Stephen C. Pepper, and Brand Blanshard.   Stressing the relatively recent contextualistic worldview, which he considers one of the best world hypotheses, Hahn seeks to achieve a broad perspective within which all things may be given their due place. After providing a brief outline, Hahn explains contextualism in relation to other philosophies. In his opening chapter, as in later chapters, he expresses contextualism as a form of pragmatic naturalism. In spite of Hahn’s high regard for contextualism, however, he does not think it would be good if we were limited to a single worldview. “The more different views we have and the more different sources of possible light we have, the better our chances that some of these cosmic maps will shed light on our world and our place in it.”   Lewis E. Hahn is a professor emeritus of philosophy at Southern Illinois University Carbondale, where he currently is editor of the Library of Living Philosophers. He has published numerous books and articles over the past sixty years. Among his books are A Contextualistic Theory of Perception, The Elements of Logic (with Cecil H. Miller), and Value: A Cooperative Inquiry (with Ray Lepley, John Dewey, and others).   Other recent Choice Outstanding Academic Title Award winners from SIU Press include: The World Wars Through the Female Gaze by Jean Gallagher (2000), Well-Tempered Women: Nineteenth-Century Temperance Rhetoric by Carol Mattingly (2000), and Creating the Self in the Contemporary American Theatre by Robert J. Andreach (2000), and “A Clown in a Grave”: Complexities and Tensions in the Works of Gregory Corso by Michael Skau (2001). All are available from Southern Illinois University Press (800-346-2680, www.siu.edu/~siupress).  More marketing news