Ruth Boeker
Biographic Data
| ID | 1490125 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ruth Boeker |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ruth |
| FAMILY NAME | Boeker |
| SIGNATURE | BOEKER R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University College Dublin |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5995-8868 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Catharine Trotter Cockburn’s and Anne Hepburn Arbuthnot’s contributions to Scottish philosophy
The aims of this paper are twofold. First, we draw attention to the contributions that Catharine Trotter Cockburn and her niece Anne Hepburn Arbuthnot made to Scottish Enlightenment philosophy and argue on these grounds that they should be acknowledged as Scottish philosophers. Second, we highlight how Cockburn and Arbuthnot, who, like other women of their day, were excluded from attending universities created spaces for learning outside institut…
Locke on Education, Persons, and Moral Agency
In her book Experience Embodied Anik Waldow devotes a chapter to ‘Locke’s Experimental Persons.’ Her chapter aims to show how Locke’s views on persons, personal identity, and moral agency in his Essay concerning Human Understanding build on his esteem-based approach to education that he develops in Some Thoughts concerning Education. After outlining main contributions that Waldow makes in her chapter, I turn to three issues that in my view deserv…
Rethinking Early Modern Philosophy
This introductory article outlines how this special issue contributes to existing scholarship that calls for a rethinking and re-evaluation of common assumptions about early modern philosophy. One way of challenging existing narratives is by questioning what role systems or systematicity play during this period. Another way of rethinking early modern philosophy is by considering assumptions about the role of philosophy itself and how philosophy c…
Thomas Reid on Promises and Social Operations of the Human Mind
My paper offers a new interpretation of Reid's account of social operations of the human mind. I argue that it is important to acknowledge the counterpart structure of social operations. By this I mean that for Reid every social operation is paired with a counterpart operation. On the view that I ascribe to Reid, at least two intelligent beings take part in a social operation and the social operation does not come into existence until both the so…
Hutcheson and his Critics and Opponents on the Moral Sense
This paper takes a new look at Francis Hutcheson's moral sense theory and examines it in light of the views of his rationalist critics and opponents who claim that there has to be an antecedent moral standard prior to any sense or affections. I examine how Gilbert Burnet, Samuel Clarke, and Catharine Trotter Cockburn each argue for the priority of reason over a moral sense and how Hutcheson responds or could respond to their views. Furthermore, I…
Francis Hutcheson on Liberty
This paper aims to reconstruct Francis Hutcheson's thinking about liberty. Since he does not offer a detailed treatment of philosophical questions concerning liberty in his mature philosophical writings I turn to a textbook on metaphysics. We can assume that he prepared the textbook during the 1720s in Dublin. This textbook deserves more attention. First, it sheds light on Hutcheson's role as a teacher in Ireland and Scotland. Second, Hutcheson's…
Teaching & Learning Guide for
Shaftesbury on Liberty and Self-Mastery
The aim of this paper is to show that Shaftesbury’s thinking about liberty is best understood in terms of self-mastery. To examine his understanding of liberty, I turn to a painting that he commissioned on the ancient theme of the choice of Hercules and the notes that he prepared for the artist. Questions of human choice are also present in the so-called story of an amour, which addresses the difficulties of controlling human passions. Jaffro dis…
Shaftesbury on Persons, Personal Identity and Character Development
Shaftesbury's major work Characteristicks of Men, Manners, Opinions, Times was one of the most influential English works in the eighteenth century. This paper focuses on his contributions to debates about persons and personal identity and shows that Shaftesbury regards metaphysical questions of personal identity as closely connected with normative questions of character development. I argue that he is willing to accept that persons are substances…
Locke on Personal Identity
Hutcheson and his Critics and Opponents on the Moral Sense
This paper takes a new look at Francis Hutcheson's moral sense theory and examines it in light of the views of his rationalist critics and opponents who claim that there has to be an antecedent moral standard prior to any sense or affections. I examine how Gilbert Burnet, Samuel Clarke, and Catharine Trotter Cockburn each argue for the priority of reason over a moral sense and how Hutcheson responds or could respond to their views. Furthermore, I…
Locke on Personal Identity
Shaftesbury on Persons, Personal Identity and Character Development
Shaftesbury's major work Characteristicks of Men, Manners, Opinions, Times was one of the most influential English works in the eighteenth century. This paper focuses on his contributions to debates about persons and personal identity and shows that Shaftesbury regards metaphysical questions of personal identity as closely connected with normative questions of character development. I argue that he is willing to accept that persons are substances…
Shaftesbury on Liberty and Self-Mastery
The aim of this paper is to show that Shaftesbury’s thinking about liberty is best understood in terms of self-mastery. To examine his understanding of liberty, I turn to a painting that he commissioned on the ancient theme of the choice of Hercules and the notes that he prepared for the artist. Questions of human choice are also present in the so-called story of an amour, which addresses the difficulties of controlling human passions. Jaffro dis…
Francis Hutcheson on Liberty
This paper aims to reconstruct Francis Hutcheson's thinking about liberty. Since he does not offer a detailed treatment of philosophical questions concerning liberty in his mature philosophical writings I turn to a textbook on metaphysics. We can assume that he prepared the textbook during the 1720s in Dublin. This textbook deserves more attention. First, it sheds light on Hutcheson's role as a teacher in Ireland and Scotland. Second, Hutcheson's…
Teaching & Learning Guide for
Thomas Reid on Promises and Social Operations of the Human Mind
My paper offers a new interpretation of Reid's account of social operations of the human mind. I argue that it is important to acknowledge the counterpart structure of social operations. By this I mean that for Reid every social operation is paired with a counterpart operation. On the view that I ascribe to Reid, at least two intelligent beings take part in a social operation and the social operation does not come into existence until both the so…
Hutcheson and his Critics and Opponents on the Moral Sense
This paper takes a new look at Francis Hutcheson's moral sense theory and examines it in light of the views of his rationalist critics and opponents who claim that there has to be an antecedent moral standard prior to any sense or affections. I examine how Gilbert Burnet, Samuel Clarke, and Catharine Trotter Cockburn each argue for the priority of reason over a moral sense and how Hutcheson responds or could respond to their views. Furthermore, I…
Locke on Education, Persons, and Moral Agency
In her book Experience Embodied Anik Waldow devotes a chapter to ‘Locke’s Experimental Persons.’ Her chapter aims to show how Locke’s views on persons, personal identity, and moral agency in his Essay concerning Human Understanding build on his esteem-based approach to education that he develops in Some Thoughts concerning Education. After outlining main contributions that Waldow makes in her chapter, I turn to three issues that in my view deserv…
Rethinking Early Modern Philosophy
This introductory article outlines how this special issue contributes to existing scholarship that calls for a rethinking and re-evaluation of common assumptions about early modern philosophy. One way of challenging existing narratives is by questioning what role systems or systematicity play during this period. Another way of rethinking early modern philosophy is by considering assumptions about the role of philosophy itself and how philosophy c…
Catharine Trotter Cockburn’s and Anne Hepburn Arbuthnot’s contributions to Scottish philosophy
The aims of this paper are twofold. First, we draw attention to the contributions that Catharine Trotter Cockburn and her niece Anne Hepburn Arbuthnot made to Scottish Enlightenment philosophy and argue on these grounds that they should be acknowledged as Scottish philosophers. Second, we highlight how Cockburn and Arbuthnot, who, like other women of their day, were excluded from attending universities created spaces for learning outside institut…
Philosophy (9 works) · Epistemology (8 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Aesthetics (5 works) · Metaphysics (5 works) · Self (5 works) · Personal identity (4 works) · Philosophical Ethics and Theory (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Political Philosophy and Ethics (3 works)