Sophia M Connell
Biographic Data
| ID | 4125096 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sophia M Connell |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sophia M |
| FAMILY NAME | Connell |
| SIGNATURE | CONNELL S M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Birkbeck, University of London |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8498-3988 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Teaching women into the history of early analytic philosophy
Aristotle on Sexual Difference
Journal Article Aristotle on Sexual Difference: Metaphysics, Biology, Politics Get access Aristotle on Sexual Difference: Metaphysics, Biology, Politics, by Marguerite Deslauriers. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022. Pp. vii + 354. Sophia M Connell Sophia M Connell Birkbeck College, University of London, UK [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Mind, fzad032, https://doi.org/10.1093/m…
Ancient Women Philosophers
Alice Ambrose and early analytic philosophy
Alice Ambrose (1906–2001) is best known as Wittgenstein’s student during the 1930s. Her association with probably the most famous philosopher of the twentieth century contributes to her obscurity. Ambrose is referred to in historiography of this period as ‘follower’ or ‘disciple’ but never considered in her own right as a philosopher. The neglect of her place in the history of philosophy needs to be resisted. This paper explores some of Ambrose’s…
Lost voices
This paper introduces a Special Issue of the British Journal for the History of Philosophy on women in philosophy 1880-1970. It argues that there are social, institutional and academic reasons why women philosophers have been excluded from the history of analytic philosophy in this period. There is still time to reverse those tendencies
Aristotle on the Concept of Shared Life
While many look to Aristotle for the idea of a fundamental division between human and animal, this book argues that this seriously misunderstands his thought. In the introduction, Agamben's influential view that ‘way of life’ (bios) stands opposed to ‘bare life’ (zōē) particularly concerns Brill since its effect has been ‘to foreclose engagement with Aristotle's understanding of life rather than open it up’ (11). It is not mere rationality but ‘l…
Aristotle on Women
This Element provides an account of Aristotle on women which combines what is found in his scientific biology with his practical philosophy. Scholars have often debated how these two fields are related. The current study shows that according to Aristotelian biology, women are set up for intelligence and tend to be milder-tempered than men. Thus, women are not curtailed either intellectually or morally by their biology. The biological basis for th…
Aristotle on Women
The Cambridge Companion to Aristotle's Biology
Aristotle's voluminous writings on animals have often been marginalised in the history of philosophy. Providing the first full-length comprehensive account of Aristotle's biology, its background, content and influence, this Companion situates his study of living nature within his broader philosophy and theology and differentiates it from other medical and philosophical theories. An overview of empiricism in Aristotle's Historia Animalium is follo…
Nutritive and Sentient Soul in Aristotle’s Generation of Animals 2.5
This paper argues that focusing on Aristotle’s theory of generation as primarily ‘hylomorphic’ can lead to difficulties. This is especially evident when interpreting the association between the male and sentient soul at GA 2.5. If the focus is on the male’s contribution as form and the female’s as matter, then soul becomes divided into nutritive from female and sentient from male which makes little sense in Aristotle’s biological ontology. In con…
Parallels Between Tyrant and Philosopher in Plato’s Republic
The Republic presents the characters of the philosopher and the tyrant as similar. Strongly focused by indiscriminate erotic motivation, both defy convention and lack familiar emotional responses, which make them appear to be mad. This essay argues that Plato put forward these parallels partly in order to defend Socrates from the charge of corrupting the young, partly to present a possible way to overthrow the current regime and partly to show th…
Aristotle on Female Animals
Aristotle's account of female nature has received mostly negative treatment, emphasising what he says females cannot do. Building on recent research, this book comprehensively revises such readings, setting out the complex and positive role played by the female in Aristotle's thought with a particular focus on the longest surviving treatise on reproduction in the ancient corpus, the Generation of Animals. It provides new interpretations of the na…
Philosophers in the Republic
An infamous problem with Socrates’ proposal in Plato's Republic that philosophers rule is that they will not want to and so ‘we will be doing them a wrong’ (519d) by forcing them back down into the cave. Roslyn Weiss offers an innovative solution to this dilemma by proposing that the Republic in fact gives the reader two paradigms of the philosopher, one better and intended for enlightened readers to discover, the other second-rate and designed t…
Aristotle and Galen on sex difference and reproduction
Aristotle and Galen on sex difference and reproduction
Philosophers in the Republic
An infamous problem with Socrates’ proposal in Plato's Republic that philosophers rule is that they will not want to and so ‘we will be doing them a wrong’ (519d) by forcing them back down into the cave. Roslyn Weiss offers an innovative solution to this dilemma by proposing that the Republic in fact gives the reader two paradigms of the philosopher, one better and intended for enlightened readers to discover, the other second-rate and designed t…
Aristotle on Female Animals
Aristotle's account of female nature has received mostly negative treatment, emphasising what he says females cannot do. Building on recent research, this book comprehensively revises such readings, setting out the complex and positive role played by the female in Aristotle's thought with a particular focus on the longest surviving treatise on reproduction in the ancient corpus, the Generation of Animals. It provides new interpretations of the na…
Parallels Between Tyrant and Philosopher in Plato’s Republic
The Republic presents the characters of the philosopher and the tyrant as similar. Strongly focused by indiscriminate erotic motivation, both defy convention and lack familiar emotional responses, which make them appear to be mad. This essay argues that Plato put forward these parallels partly in order to defend Socrates from the charge of corrupting the young, partly to present a possible way to overthrow the current regime and partly to show th…
Nutritive and Sentient Soul in Aristotle’s Generation of Animals 2.5
This paper argues that focusing on Aristotle’s theory of generation as primarily ‘hylomorphic’ can lead to difficulties. This is especially evident when interpreting the association between the male and sentient soul at GA 2.5. If the focus is on the male’s contribution as form and the female’s as matter, then soul becomes divided into nutritive from female and sentient from male which makes little sense in Aristotle’s biological ontology. In con…
Aristotle on Women
This Element provides an account of Aristotle on women which combines what is found in his scientific biology with his practical philosophy. Scholars have often debated how these two fields are related. The current study shows that according to Aristotelian biology, women are set up for intelligence and tend to be milder-tempered than men. Thus, women are not curtailed either intellectually or morally by their biology. The biological basis for th…
Aristotle on Women
The Cambridge Companion to Aristotle's Biology
Aristotle's voluminous writings on animals have often been marginalised in the history of philosophy. Providing the first full-length comprehensive account of Aristotle's biology, its background, content and influence, this Companion situates his study of living nature within his broader philosophy and theology and differentiates it from other medical and philosophical theories. An overview of empiricism in Aristotle's Historia Animalium is follo…
Alice Ambrose and early analytic philosophy
Alice Ambrose (1906–2001) is best known as Wittgenstein’s student during the 1930s. Her association with probably the most famous philosopher of the twentieth century contributes to her obscurity. Ambrose is referred to in historiography of this period as ‘follower’ or ‘disciple’ but never considered in her own right as a philosopher. The neglect of her place in the history of philosophy needs to be resisted. This paper explores some of Ambrose’s…
Lost voices
This paper introduces a Special Issue of the British Journal for the History of Philosophy on women in philosophy 1880-1970. It argues that there are social, institutional and academic reasons why women philosophers have been excluded from the history of analytic philosophy in this period. There is still time to reverse those tendencies
Aristotle on the Concept of Shared Life
While many look to Aristotle for the idea of a fundamental division between human and animal, this book argues that this seriously misunderstands his thought. In the introduction, Agamben's influential view that ‘way of life’ (bios) stands opposed to ‘bare life’ (zōē) particularly concerns Brill since its effect has been ‘to foreclose engagement with Aristotle's understanding of life rather than open it up’ (11). It is not mere rationality but ‘l…
Ancient Women Philosophers
Aristotle on Sexual Difference
Journal Article Aristotle on Sexual Difference: Metaphysics, Biology, Politics Get access Aristotle on Sexual Difference: Metaphysics, Biology, Politics, by Marguerite Deslauriers. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022. Pp. vii + 354. Sophia M Connell Sophia M Connell Birkbeck College, University of London, UK [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Mind, fzad032, https://doi.org/10.1093/m…
Teaching women into the history of early analytic philosophy
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