Sandrine Berge
Biographic Data
| ID | 1402371 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sandrine Berge |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sandrine |
| FAMILY NAME | Berge |
| SIGNATURE | BERGE S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Bilkent University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6904-3998 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Slavery, the French revolution, and Condorcet’s childhood argument
Mary Wollstonecraft’s Influence on French Revolutionary Educational Reform
When Mary Wollstonecraft travelled to Paris in December 1792, she was already well-known there as a republican writer, and a defender of women’s rights, particularly to education. Her philosophy of education was very closely tied to her republican beliefs – to educate a child in the right way was to preserve her from domination. In Paris, Wollstonecraft became friends with several famous Girondins, including Madame Roland and Jacques-Pierre Briss…
Early modern women philosophers and politics: Accommodating sphere restrictions
In his Politics, Aristotle decreed that human beings needed to take part in politics to flourish, but that women, despite being human, needed to stay at home and away from politics. This paper offers an overview of how early modern women philosophers worked to makes their lives more political despite being constricted to the domestic sphere. Lucrezia Marinella argued that the home was like a small city, requiring quasi political skill to run, Cav…
Olympe de Gouges
Olympe de Gouges, though a well-known historical figure, has not been investigated as a philosopher until quite recently. Yet, many of her writings have philosophical import, whether they are written in the genre of the philosophical treatise, drama or political pamphlets. In the three main sections, the author gives an overview of some of her arguments, showing their originality and their relevance to debates contemporary to her and to us. In th…
Domesticity and Political Participation: At Home with the Jacobin Women
The exclusion of women from political participation and the separation of private and public spheres seem anchored in human history to such an extent that we may think they are necessary. I offer an analysis of a philosophical moment in history, the early years of the French Revolution, where politics and domesticity were not incompatible. I show how this enabled women to participate in politics from within their homes, at the same time fulfillin…
Revolution and Republicanism: Women Political Philosophers of Late Eighteenth-Century France and Why They Matter
In this article, I present the arguments of three republican women philosophers of eighteenth-century France, focusing especially on two themes: equality (of class, gender, and race) and the family. I argue that these philosophers, Olympe de Gouges, Marie-Jeanne Phlipon Roland, and Sophie de Grouchy, who are interesting and original in their own right, belong to the neo-republican tradition and that re-discovering their texts is an opportunity to…
What’s it got to do with the price of bread? Condorcet and Grouchy on freedom and unreasonable laws in commerce
István Hont identified a point in the history of political thought at which republicanism and commercialism became separated. According to Hont, Emmanuel Sieyès proposed that a monarchical republic should be formed. By contrast the Jacobins, in favour of a republic led by the people, rejected not only Sieyès’s political proposal, but also the economic ideology that went with it. Sieyès was in favour of a commercial republic; the Jacobins were not…
Lucretia and the Impossibility of Female Republicanism in Margaret Cavendish's Sociable Letters
Margaret Cavendish is known for her personal allegiance to monarchy in England. This is reflected in her writings; as Hobbes did, she tended to criticize severely any attempt at rebellion and did not think England could become a republic. Yet it seems that Cavendish did have sympathy with some republican values, in particular, as Lisa Walters has argued, with the republican concept of freedom as nondomination. How can we explain this apparent inc…
Family, Gender, and Progress: Sophie de Grouchy and Her Exclusion in the Publication of Condorcet's Sketch of Human Progress
I examine some of the evidence for collaboration between Condorcet and Sophie de Grouchy on the writing of the Sketch of Human Progress, but also uncover the ways in which the publication and reception of that text worked to exclude a woman who was a philosopher in her own right from a work she clearly contributed to. I show that at least one passage that was added in the 1795 edition makes the work philosophically more interesting
A Feminist Perspective on Virtue Ethics
A Feminist Perspective on Virtue Ethics provides of historical survey of feminist virtue ethics, and shows how the ethical theorizing of women in the past can be brought to bear on that of women in th
Origins Revisited: On the Mother’s Side
Our way of looking at the history of philosophy and of constructing a canon for ourselves has been for a long time hostile to the inclusion of female writers. We look to those we regard as significant and influential and neglect the rest. We pick a figurehead, because we judge that is enough to represent the main strains in the history of thought. This has obvious advantages: it makes it possible to hold a debate about the history of philosophy w…
A Republican Housewife: Marie‐Jeanne Phlipon Roland on Women's Political Role
In this paper I look at the philosophical (and sometimes personal) struggles of one eighteenth‐century woman writer to reconcile a desire and obvious capacity to participate in the creation of republican ideals and their applications on the one hand, and on the other a deeply held belief that women's role in a republic is confined to the domestic realm. I argue that Marie‐Jeanne Phlipon Roland's philosophical writings—three unpublished essays, pu…
Teaching Christine de Pizan in Turkey
An important part of making philosophy as a discipline gender equal is to ensure that female authors are not simply wiped out of the history of philosophy. This has implications for teaching as well as research. In this context, I reflect on my experience of teaching a text by medieval philosopher Christine de Pizan as part of an introductory history of philosophy course taught to Turkish students in law, political science, and international rela…
Why Women Hug their Chains: Wollstonecraft and Adaptive Preferences
In a recent article, 1 Amartya Sen writes that one important influence on his theory of adaptive preferences is Wollstonecraft's account of how some women, though clearly oppressed, are apparently satisfied with their lot. 2 That would be wrong. Wollstonecraft does have a lot of interest to say on the topic of why her contemporaries appeared to choose what struck her as oppression, and her views can still help us reflect on contemporary problems …
Mirrors to One Another: Emotion and Value in Jane Austen and David Hume - E.M. Dadlez
Ryle and others have long persuaded us that Jane Austen was a virtue ethicist. But was she an Aristotelian virtue ethicist? Eva Dadlez, in her convincing and beautifully crafted monograph, asks us to judge otherwise: Hume, she says, not Aristotle, provides the theoretical background we need to understand Austen's virtue ethics. Of course there is a better chronological fit. They belong to the same age, with Hume being just early enough for his wr…
Why the Capability Approach is Justified
Sen and Nussbaum's capability approach has in the past twenty years become an increasingly popular and influential approach to issues in global justice. Its main tenet is that when assessing quality of life or asking what kind of policies will be more conducive to human development, we should look not to resources or preference satisfaction, but to what people are able to be and to do. This should then be measured against a more or less narrow co…
Virtue Ethics, Politics, and the Function of Laws: The Parent Analogy in Plato's Menexenus
Can virtue ethics say anything worthwhile about laws? What would a virtue-ethical account of good laws look like? I argue that a plausible answer to that question can be found in Plato's parent analogies in the Crito and the Menexenus. I go on to show that the Menexenus gives us a philosophical argument to the effect that laws are just only if they enable citizens to flourish. I then argue that the resulting virtue-ethical account of just laws is…
Loneliness and Belonging: Is stoic cosmopolitanism still defensible
Why Women Hug their Chains: Wollstonecraft and Adaptive Preferences
In a recent article, 1 Amartya Sen writes that one important influence on his theory of adaptive preferences is Wollstonecraft's account of how some women, though clearly oppressed, are apparently satisfied with their lot. 2 That would be wrong. Wollstonecraft does have a lot of interest to say on the topic of why her contemporaries appeared to choose what struck her as oppression, and her views can still help us reflect on contemporary problems …
Family, Gender, and Progress: Sophie de Grouchy and Her Exclusion in the Publication of Condorcet's Sketch of Human Progress
I examine some of the evidence for collaboration between Condorcet and Sophie de Grouchy on the writing of the Sketch of Human Progress, but also uncover the ways in which the publication and reception of that text worked to exclude a woman who was a philosopher in her own right from a work she clearly contributed to. I show that at least one passage that was added in the 1795 edition makes the work philosophically more interesting
Loneliness and Belonging: Is stoic cosmopolitanism still defensible
Loneliness and Belonging: Is stoic cosmopolitanism still defensible
Why the Capability Approach is Justified
Sen and Nussbaum's capability approach has in the past twenty years become an increasingly popular and influential approach to issues in global justice. Its main tenet is that when assessing quality of life or asking what kind of policies will be more conducive to human development, we should look not to resources or preference satisfaction, but to what people are able to be and to do. This should then be measured against a more or less narrow co…
Virtue Ethics, Politics, and the Function of Laws: The Parent Analogy in Plato's Menexenus
Can virtue ethics say anything worthwhile about laws? What would a virtue-ethical account of good laws look like? I argue that a plausible answer to that question can be found in Plato's parent analogies in the Crito and the Menexenus. I go on to show that the Menexenus gives us a philosophical argument to the effect that laws are just only if they enable citizens to flourish. I then argue that the resulting virtue-ethical account of just laws is…
Mirrors to One Another: Emotion and Value in Jane Austen and David Hume - E.M. Dadlez
Ryle and others have long persuaded us that Jane Austen was a virtue ethicist. But was she an Aristotelian virtue ethicist? Eva Dadlez, in her convincing and beautifully crafted monograph, asks us to judge otherwise: Hume, she says, not Aristotle, provides the theoretical background we need to understand Austen's virtue ethics. Of course there is a better chronological fit. They belong to the same age, with Hume being just early enough for his wr…
Why Women Hug their Chains: Wollstonecraft and Adaptive Preferences
In a recent article, 1 Amartya Sen writes that one important influence on his theory of adaptive preferences is Wollstonecraft's account of how some women, though clearly oppressed, are apparently satisfied with their lot. 2 That would be wrong. Wollstonecraft does have a lot of interest to say on the topic of why her contemporaries appeared to choose what struck her as oppression, and her views can still help us reflect on contemporary problems …
Teaching Christine de Pizan in Turkey
An important part of making philosophy as a discipline gender equal is to ensure that female authors are not simply wiped out of the history of philosophy. This has implications for teaching as well as research. In this context, I reflect on my experience of teaching a text by medieval philosopher Christine de Pizan as part of an introductory history of philosophy course taught to Turkish students in law, political science, and international rela…
A Feminist Perspective on Virtue Ethics
A Feminist Perspective on Virtue Ethics provides of historical survey of feminist virtue ethics, and shows how the ethical theorizing of women in the past can be brought to bear on that of women in th
Origins Revisited: On the Mother’s Side
Our way of looking at the history of philosophy and of constructing a canon for ourselves has been for a long time hostile to the inclusion of female writers. We look to those we regard as significant and influential and neglect the rest. We pick a figurehead, because we judge that is enough to represent the main strains in the history of thought. This has obvious advantages: it makes it possible to hold a debate about the history of philosophy w…
A Republican Housewife: Marie‐Jeanne Phlipon Roland on Women's Political Role
In this paper I look at the philosophical (and sometimes personal) struggles of one eighteenth‐century woman writer to reconcile a desire and obvious capacity to participate in the creation of republican ideals and their applications on the one hand, and on the other a deeply held belief that women's role in a republic is confined to the domestic realm. I argue that Marie‐Jeanne Phlipon Roland's philosophical writings—three unpublished essays, pu…
What’s it got to do with the price of bread? Condorcet and Grouchy on freedom and unreasonable laws in commerce
István Hont identified a point in the history of political thought at which republicanism and commercialism became separated. According to Hont, Emmanuel Sieyès proposed that a monarchical republic should be formed. By contrast the Jacobins, in favour of a republic led by the people, rejected not only Sieyès’s political proposal, but also the economic ideology that went with it. Sieyès was in favour of a commercial republic; the Jacobins were not…
Lucretia and the Impossibility of Female Republicanism in Margaret Cavendish's Sociable Letters
Margaret Cavendish is known for her personal allegiance to monarchy in England. This is reflected in her writings; as Hobbes did, she tended to criticize severely any attempt at rebellion and did not think England could become a republic. Yet it seems that Cavendish did have sympathy with some republican values, in particular, as Lisa Walters has argued, with the republican concept of freedom as nondomination. How can we explain this apparent inc…
Family, Gender, and Progress: Sophie de Grouchy and Her Exclusion in the Publication of Condorcet's Sketch of Human Progress
I examine some of the evidence for collaboration between Condorcet and Sophie de Grouchy on the writing of the Sketch of Human Progress, but also uncover the ways in which the publication and reception of that text worked to exclude a woman who was a philosopher in her own right from a work she clearly contributed to. I show that at least one passage that was added in the 1795 edition makes the work philosophically more interesting
Revolution and Republicanism: Women Political Philosophers of Late Eighteenth-Century France and Why They Matter
In this article, I present the arguments of three republican women philosophers of eighteenth-century France, focusing especially on two themes: equality (of class, gender, and race) and the family. I argue that these philosophers, Olympe de Gouges, Marie-Jeanne Phlipon Roland, and Sophie de Grouchy, who are interesting and original in their own right, belong to the neo-republican tradition and that re-discovering their texts is an opportunity to…
Olympe de Gouges
Olympe de Gouges, though a well-known historical figure, has not been investigated as a philosopher until quite recently. Yet, many of her writings have philosophical import, whether they are written in the genre of the philosophical treatise, drama or political pamphlets. In the three main sections, the author gives an overview of some of her arguments, showing their originality and their relevance to debates contemporary to her and to us. In th…
Domesticity and Political Participation: At Home with the Jacobin Women
The exclusion of women from political participation and the separation of private and public spheres seem anchored in human history to such an extent that we may think they are necessary. I offer an analysis of a philosophical moment in history, the early years of the French Revolution, where politics and domesticity were not incompatible. I show how this enabled women to participate in politics from within their homes, at the same time fulfillin…
Mary Wollstonecraft’s Influence on French Revolutionary Educational Reform
When Mary Wollstonecraft travelled to Paris in December 1792, she was already well-known there as a republican writer, and a defender of women’s rights, particularly to education. Her philosophy of education was very closely tied to her republican beliefs – to educate a child in the right way was to preserve her from domination. In Paris, Wollstonecraft became friends with several famous Girondins, including Madame Roland and Jacques-Pierre Briss…
Early modern women philosophers and politics: Accommodating sphere restrictions
In his Politics, Aristotle decreed that human beings needed to take part in politics to flourish, but that women, despite being human, needed to stay at home and away from politics. This paper offers an overview of how early modern women philosophers worked to makes their lives more political despite being constricted to the domestic sphere. Lucrezia Marinella argued that the home was like a small city, requiring quasi political skill to run, Cav…
Slavery, the French revolution, and Condorcet’s childhood argument
Philosophy (15 works) · Political science (14 works) · Law (13 works) · Sociology (13 works) · Politics (12 works) · Epistemology (8 works) · Law (8 works) · Philosophy (7 works) · Religion, Gender, and Enlightenment (6 works) · Virtue (6 works)