Women Philosophers from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment: New Studies

ISBN-13: 9780367758646 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 218 str.

Ruth Edith Hagengruber; Sarah Hutton

Opis

This collection brings a new perspective to the history of philosophy, by highlighting women’s contributions to philosophy and testifying to the rich history of women’s thought from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment.

Spis treści

Introduction: New Perspectives on Women Philosophers  1. Women, philosophy and the history of philosophy  2. Leone Ebreo in Tullia d’Aragona’s Dialogo. Between Varchi’s legacy and philosophical autonomy  3. Patriarchal power as unjust: tyranny in seventeenth-century Venice  4. Oliva Sabuco de Nantes and her Nueva Filosofia: a new philosophy of human nature and the interaction between mind and body  5. Elisabeth of Bohemia's Neo-Peripatetic account of the emotions  6. Monism and individuation in Anne Conway as a critique of Spinoza  7. Tutor, salon, convent: the formation of women philosophers in early modern France  8. Mary Astell’s critique of Pierre Bayle: atheism and intellectual integrity in the Pensées (1682)  9. On some footnotes to Catharine Trotter Cockburn’s Defence of the Essay of Human Understanding  10. Susanna Newcome's cosmological argument  11. ‘Mon petit essai’: Émilie du Châtelet’s Essai sur l’optique and her early natural philosophy