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271:. She was the first female teaching assistant at Yale for any non-language class. It has been speculated that she was not just the first black woman to receive a philosophy PhD in the United States, but in the entire world. After Yale, Cook served as an analyst for African affairs in the State Department in Washington. She also worked as an editor in New York and for several years in the Office of Economic Opportunity. She taught at
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American Philosophical Association presents the Joyce Mitchell Cook Award biennially to a "trailblazing black woman philosopher". Yale University hosted the Joyce Mitchell Cook Conference in November 2015, where many scholars and pioneers in philosophy gathered to honor Cook. Yancy gave the
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in 1951, where she intended on majoring in chemistry. She took her first philosophy course her freshman year, and then, inspired by her readings and professors, graduated from Bryn Mawr with a B.A. in philosophy in 1955. She then received a double M.A. in psychology and philosophy from
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Joyce was an unprecedented philosophical figure, and a very special friend. She was incredibly principled. I will remember her unfailing ethics, her brilliant wit, her deeply embodied laughter, and her pecan pie, which was out of this
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as a speech writer and correspondence editor. She was in the middle of writing a book on the black experience when she died of illness on June 6, 2014.
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