Feminist History of Philosophy: The Recovery and Evaluation of Women's Philosophical Thought

✍ Scribed by Eileen O’Neill, Marcy P. Lascano

• Publisher: Springer International Publishing
• Year: 2019
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 449
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Over the course of the past twenty-five years, feminist theory has had a forceful impact upon the history of Western philosophy. The present collection of essays has as its primary aim to evaluate past women’s published philosophical work, and to introduce readers to newly recovered female figures; the collection will also make contributions to the history of the philosophy of gender, and to the history of feminist social and political philosophy, insofar as the collection will discuss women’s views on these issues.

The volume contains contributions by an international group of leading historians of philosophy and political thought, whose scholarship represents some of the very best work being done in North and Central America, Canada, Europe and Australia.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter ....Pages i-x
Introduction (Eileen O’Neill)....Pages 1-20
Front Matter ....Pages 21-21
Women Philosophers and the Cosmological Argument: A Case Study in Feminist History of Philosophy (Marcy P. Lascano)....Pages 23-47
Anne Conway’s Metaphysics of Sympathy (Christia Mercer)....Pages 49-73
Sensibility and Understanding in the Epistemological Thought of Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz (Laura Benítez)....Pages 75-96
Du Châtelet and Descartes on the Roles of Hypothesis and Metaphysics in Natural Philosophy (Karen Detlefsen)....Pages 97-127
Lady Mary Shepherd and David Hume on Cause and Effect (Martha Brandt Bolton)....Pages 129-152
Front Matter ....Pages 153-153
Princess Elisabeth of Bohemia on the Cartesian Mind: Interaction, Happiness, Freedom (Tad M. Schmaltz)....Pages 155-173
L’Amour, L’Ambition and L’Amitié: Marie Thiroux D’Arconville on Passion, Agency and Virtue (Lisa Shapiro)....Pages 175-191
Sophie de Grouchy, Adam Smith, and the Politics of Sympathy (Eric Schliesser)....Pages 193-219
Imagination, Religion, and Morality: What Did George Eliot Learn from Spinoza and Feuerbach? (Moira Gatens)....Pages 221-239
Surpassing Liberal Feminism: Beauvoir’s Legacy in Global Perspective (Karen Vintges)....Pages 241-257
Front Matter ....Pages 259-259
Virtue Ethics and the Origins of Feminism: The Case of Christine de Pizan (Karen Green)....Pages 261-279
Marie de Gournay and Aristotle on the Unity of the Sexes (Marguerite Deslauriers)....Pages 281-299
The Radical Nature of Mary Astell’s Christian Feminism (Hilda L. Smith)....Pages 301-317
Damaris Masham on Women and Liberty of Conscience (Jacqueline Broad)....Pages 319-336
Taking Liberty: Politics and Feminism in Margaret Cavendish and Catharine Macaulay (Sarah Hutton)....Pages 337-354
Wollstonecraft’s Contributions to Modern Political Philosophy: Intersectionality and the Quest for Egalitarian Social Justice (Eileen Hunt Botting)....Pages 355-377
Back Matter ....Pages 379-456

✦ Subjects

Philosophy; History of Philosophy; Epistemology; Metaphysics; Ethics; Philosophy of Mind; Political Philosophy