Teaching Women Philosophers

This book expands the known canon by presenting arguments and concepts from women philosophers, from all periods of the history of philosophy, from antiquity to the present day. The collaborative collection is an undertaking that emerged from intensive discussions on how to expand the philosophical canon, which formed the conclusion of the Libori Summer School 2019. This Libori Summer School, the third in a row, was held to enhance the study of texts written by women philosophers from Antiquity up to now and intended to give opportunity to young scholars to connect and to build networks.

Presenting such a collection is even more urgent today because a diversification of the canon has long been called for. Nevertheless, to date there is little explicit material available for this purpose. To make this book suitable for both academics and students, it is structured in such a way that readers can use excerpts and individual chapters from it that suit their needs, be it in moral philosophy, politics, or phenomenology, etc. Containing chapters on women such as Suor Juana, Emilie Du Châtelet, and Nisia Floresta and supplemented by contextualization, namely by some brief biographical information and by the systematic integration of her argument into the debates of the respective periods, this book is an important resource highlighting the achievements and value of women in philosophy and calling for a further diversification of the canon.

Expands the known canon of women philosophers Contains chapters on women such as Sor Juana, Emilie Du Châtelet, Rose Rand, and Nisia Floresta Covers fields such as moral philosophy, epistemology, logic, phenomenology, and more

Auteur

Ruth Hagengruber is a German philosopher, currently professor and head of philosophy at the University of Paderborn. She specialises in the history of women philosophers as well as philosophy of economics and computer science and is a specialist on Émilie Du Châtelet. Hagengruber is the director of the Center for the History of Women Philosophers and Scientists and founder of the research area EcoTechGender. She invented the Libori Summer School and is the creator of the Encyclopedia of Concise Concepts by Women Philosophers, for which she holds the position of editor in chief together with Mary Ellen Waithe. Hagengruber's research is dedicated to the revision of a patriarchal history, specially to the rediscovery of women's alternative contributions to the history of philosophy and the history of economics, focusing on circle and universality based economics as an approach of inclusive economic ethics. She published on value theory in Feminist Economics and reflects on technical design from a feminist (and inclusive) point of view, such as autonomous driving, a different approach to labour, and a profound acknowledgment of creative skills ideas there.

Contenu

Teaching Women Philosophers with Ideas and Concepts.- Phintys of Sparta on Moderation.- Defining Womenkind with Christine de Pizan.- Resistance with Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz.- Emilie Du Châtelet on Hypotheses.- Germaine de Staël on Passions.- Harriet Taylor Mill on Gender Equality.- Mapping the Philosophical Grounds with Nisia Floresta.- Helene Druskowitz on Free Will.- The Idea of the I in Hedwig Conrad-Martius.- Motivation in Edith Stein.- Teaching Logic with Rose Rand.- Reconstructing Society with Women Pragmatists.