The Routledge Handbook of Women and Early Modern European Philosophy
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Book Description
The Routledge Handbook of Women and Early Modern European Philosophy is an outstanding reference source for the wide range of philosophical contributions made by women writing in Europe from about 1560 to 1780. It shows the range of genres and methods used by women writing in these centuries in Europe, thus encouraging an expanded understanding of our historical canon. Comprised of 46 chapters by a team of contributors from all over the globe, including early career researchers, the Handbook is divided into the following sections:
I. Context
II. Themes
A. Metaphysics and Epistemology
B. Natural Philosophy
C. Moral Philosophy
D. Social-Political Philosophy
III. Figures
IV. State of the Field
The volume is essential reading for students and researchers in philosophy who are interested in expanding their understanding of the richness of our philosophical past, including in order to offer expanded, more inclusive syllabi for their students. It is also a valuable resource for those in related fields like gender and women’s studies; history; literature; sociology; history and philosophy of science; and political science.
Table of Contents
- Introduction
Karen Detlefsen and Lisa Shapiro
PART I: CONTEXT
2. Women and Institutions in Early Modern Europe
Carol Pal
3
Lisa Shapiro
Canon, Gender, and Historiography
4
Karen Detlefsen
Method, Genre, and the Scope of Philosophy
PART II
THEMES
PART IIA: METAPHYSICS AND EPISTEMOLOGY
5
Marcy Lascano
God, Freedom, and Perfection in Conway, Astell, and du Châtelet
6
Tad Schmaltz
Vitalistic Causation: More, Conway, Cavendish
7
Marleen Rozemond and Alison Simmons
It’s all Alive! Cavendish and Conway against Dualism
8
Emily Thomas
Cavendish, Conway, and Cockburn on Matter
9
Martina Reuter
Skepticism
10
David Cunning
Ways of Knowing
PART IIB: NATURAL PHILOSOPHY
11
Geoffrey Gorham
Space and Time
12
Anne-Lise Rey
Method and Explanation
13
Andrew Janiak & Bryce Gessell
Physics and Optics: Agnesi, Bassi, Du Châtelet
14
Gideon Manning
Women, Medicine, and the Life Sciences
15
Louise Daoust
Theories of Perception
PART IIC: MORAL PHILOSOPHY
16
Deborah Boyle
Early Modern Women and the Metaphysics of Free Will
17
Allauren Forbes
Friendship as a Means to Freedom
18
Amy Schmitter
Managing Mockery: Reason, Passions and the Good Life among Early Modern Women Philosophers
19
Sandrine Berges
Virtue and Moral Obligation
20
Marguerite Deslauriers
Men, Women, Equality and Difference
PART IID: SOCIAL-POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY
21
Kelin Emmett
Autonomy and Marriage
22
Hasana Sharp
Slavery and Servitude in 17th Century Feminism: Arcangela Tarabotti and Gabrielle Suchon
23
Margaret Watkins
Race and Gender in Early Modern Philosophy: How Amo and Astell Wrote behind the Veil
24
Michaela Manson
Early Modern European Women and the Philosophy of Education: van Schurman, Pascal, Maintenon and Astell
25
Charlotte Sabourin
Critical Perspectives on Religion
26
Patrick Ball
Beauty, Gender, and Power from Marinelli to Wollstonecraft
27
Alan Coffee
Theories of the State
PART III
FIGURES
28
Sandra Plastina
Italian Women Philosophers in the Sixteenth Century: from a critique of the Aristotelian gender paradigm to an affirmation of the excellence of women
29
Jorge Secada
Teresa de Ávila on Self-Knowledge
30
Marie-Frederique Pellegrin
(Self-)portraits between two gowns: Marie de Gournay
31
John Conley
Madeleine de Scudéry: Moral Philosophy in a Gendered Key
32
Tom Stoneham and Peter West
The Unorthodox Margaret Cavendish
33
Christia Mercer and Olivia Branscum
Anne Conway
34
Julie Walsh
Gabrielle Suchon on Women’s Freedom
35
Adriana Clavel-Vázquez and Sergio Gallegos
The Socratic Pedagogy of Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz
36
Jacqueline Broad
Mary Astell (1666–1731)
37
Patricia Sheridan
Agency, Virtue, and Fitness in the Moral Philosophies of Damaris Masham and Catharine Trotter Cockburn
38
Katherine Brading
Du Châtelet and the Philosophy of Physics
39
Rebecca Wilkin and Sonja Ruud
The Real Consequences of Imaginary Things: Louise Dupin’s Critique of Sexist Historiography
40
Karen Green
Catharine Macaulay’s philosophy and her influence on Mary Wollstonecraft
41
Aaron Garrett
Phillis Wheatley and the Limits of History of Philosophy
42
Lena Halldenius
Mary Wollstonecraft
43
Getty Lustila
Remorse and Moral Progress in Sophie de Grouchy’s Letters on Sympathy
44
Antonia Lolordo
Mary Shepherd (1777-1847)
45
Corey Dyck
Women and Philosophy in the German Context
PART IV
STATE OF THE FIELD
46
Sarah Hutton
What difference? The Renaissance of Women Philosophers
Editor(s)
Biography
Karen Detlefsen is Vice Provost for Education and Professor of Philosophy and Education at the University of Pennsylvania. She is editor of Descartes' Meditations: A Critical Guide (2013) and co-editor with Jacqueline Broad of Women and Liberty, 1600-1800: Philosophical Essays (2017).
Lisa Shapiro is Professor of Philosophy and Dean of Arts at McGill University. From 2002-2022 she was a professor in the Department of Philosophy at Simon Fraser University. She is the translator and editor of The Correspondence of Princess Elisabeth of Bohemia and René Descartes (2007), co-editor of Emotions and Cognitive Life in Medieval and Early Modern Philosophy (2013), editor of Pleasure: A History (2018), and co-editor of Modern Philosophy: An Anthology (2022).