1st Edition

Lost Voices Women in Philosophy 1870–1970

Edited By Sophia M. Connell, Frederique Janssen-Lauret Copyright 2024
226 Pages
by Routledge

226 Pages
by Routledge

226 Pages
by Routledge

This book aims to redress the balance in the field of Contemporary Philosophy, considered predominantly male, by highlighting the philosophical achievements of various female figures during the period 1870-1970. Contemporary Philosophy is generally presented by its historians as a field founded entirely by men, with no prominent female contributors. Historical investigation of the development... Read more

Introduction—Lost voices: on counteracting exclusion of women from histories of contemporary philosophy

Sophia M. Connell and Frederique Janssen-Lauret

1. Worse than the best possible pessimism? Olga Plümacher’s critique of Schopenhauer

Christopher Janaway

2. Christine Ladd-Franklin on the nature and unity of the proposition

Kenneth Boyd

3. "It is quite conceivable that judgment is a very complicated phenomenon": Dorothy Wrinch, nonsense and the multiple relation theory of judgement

Giulia Felappi

4. Margaret MacDonald’s scientific common-sense philosophy

Justin Vlasits

5. Margaret MacDonald and Gilbert Ryle: a philosophical friendship

Michael Kremer

6. Alice Ambrose and early analytic philosophy

Sophia M. Connell

7. The early work of Martha Kneale, née Hurst

Jane Heal

8. Ruth Barcan Marcus and quantified modal logic

Frederique Janssen-Lauret

9. History of logic in Latin America: the case of Ayda Ignez Arruda

Gisele Dalva Secco and Miguel Alvarez Lisboa

Biography

Sophia M. Connell is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at Birkbeck College London. She held previous appointments in Cambridge. Her research includes ancient Greek philosophy and women in the history of philosophy. She is the author of Aristotle on Female Animals (2016) and the editor of The Cambridge Companion to Aristotle’s Biology (2021).

Frederique Janssen-Lauret is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Manchester, specializing in philosophical logic and history of analytic philosophy. She is author of Susan Stebbing (2022) and co-translator of Quine’s Significance of the New Logic (2018).