Karen Detlefsen
Biographic Data
| ID | 460808 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Karen Detlefsen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Karen |
| FAMILY NAME | Detlefsen |
| SIGNATURE | DETLEFSEN K |
| AFFILIATIONS | California University of Pennsylvania |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Genre littéraire, méthode, et portée de la philosophie: Le cas des préfaces de Margaret Cavendish
Les Physical and Philosophical Opinions fournissent des éléments intéressants pour comprendre la position de Cavendish sur l’égalité intellectuelle ou non des femmes et des hommes. Le texte lui-même ne fournit pas un compte rendu définitif des opinions de Cavendish sur le sujet. Cependant, la préface du livre, qui comprend d’importantes réflexions autobiographiques, aide à expliquer pourquoi Cavendish trouve ces questions si difficiles à aborder.…
Émilie Du Châtelet on Newtonianism and Hypotheses in the Eighteenth Century
Émilie Du Châtelet produced one of the first fully articulated accounts of the role of hypothesis in science, problematizing the debate in mid-eighteenth-century France over the roles of hypotheses, experimentation, and speculation in scientific methodology. This chapter examines her original views on the general topic of hypotheses by examining her extended attack throughout her Institutions de physique against the specific hypothesis regarding …
Emilie du Châtelet
Emilie Du Châtelet (b. 1706–d. 1749) was a French philosopher, author, and translator who worked primarily in natural philosophy, but also wrote on language, produced Biblical criticism, tackled questions surrounding virtue and happiness, and grappled with the nature of liberty given her understanding of the physical world and of God. She wrote and published, in her lifetime, on fire (having conducted a range of experiments on the topic at her fa…
Women and Liberty, 1600-1800
This book addresses the theme of liberty as it is found in the writing of women philosophers of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, or as it is theorized with respect to women and their lives. It covers both theoretical and practical philosophy, with chapters on problems in the metaphysics of free will (both human and divine), the liberty (or lack thereof) of women in their moral, personal lives as well as their social-political, public liv…
Anne Conway on Liberty: Philosophical Essays
This chapter makes sense of Anne Conway’s account of humans’ free will and capacity to choose to sin given her commitment to the belief that creatures are naturally inclined towards the good. It does so by: first, laying out the foundations of Conway’s metaphysics, including the difference between God’s and humans’ free will; second, explaining the human’s love for that which is similar to her, even when the object loved is of a lesser degree of …
Descartes' Meditations: A Critical Guide
Margaret Cavendish on the Relation between God and World
It has often been noted that Margaret Cavendish discusses God in her writings on natural philosophy far more than one might think she ought to given her explicit claim that a study of God belongs to theology which is to be kept strictly separate from studies in natural philosophy. In this article, I examine one way in which God enters substantially into her natural philosophy, namely the role he plays in her particular version of teleology. I con…
Margaret Cavendish on the Relation between God and World
It has often been noted that Margaret Cavendish discusses God in her writings on natural philosophy far more than one might think she ought to given her explicit claim that a study of God belongs to theology which is to be kept strictly separate from studies in natural philosophy. In this article, I examine one way in which God enters substantially into her natural philosophy, namely the role he plays in her particular version of teleology. I con…
Margaret Cavendish on the Relation between God and World
It has often been noted that Margaret Cavendish discusses God in her writings on natural philosophy far more than one might think she ought to given her explicit claim that a study of God belongs to theology which is to be kept strictly separate from studies in natural philosophy. In this article, I examine one way in which God enters substantially into her natural philosophy, namely the role he plays in her particular version of teleology. I con…
Descartes' Meditations: A Critical Guide
Women and Liberty, 1600-1800
This book addresses the theme of liberty as it is found in the writing of women philosophers of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, or as it is theorized with respect to women and their lives. It covers both theoretical and practical philosophy, with chapters on problems in the metaphysics of free will (both human and divine), the liberty (or lack thereof) of women in their moral, personal lives as well as their social-political, public liv…
Anne Conway on Liberty: Philosophical Essays
This chapter makes sense of Anne Conway’s account of humans’ free will and capacity to choose to sin given her commitment to the belief that creatures are naturally inclined towards the good. It does so by: first, laying out the foundations of Conway’s metaphysics, including the difference between God’s and humans’ free will; second, explaining the human’s love for that which is similar to her, even when the object loved is of a lesser degree of …
Emilie du Châtelet
Emilie Du Châtelet (b. 1706–d. 1749) was a French philosopher, author, and translator who worked primarily in natural philosophy, but also wrote on language, produced Biblical criticism, tackled questions surrounding virtue and happiness, and grappled with the nature of liberty given her understanding of the physical world and of God. She wrote and published, in her lifetime, on fire (having conducted a range of experiments on the topic at her fa…
Émilie Du Châtelet on Newtonianism and Hypotheses in the Eighteenth Century
Émilie Du Châtelet produced one of the first fully articulated accounts of the role of hypothesis in science, problematizing the debate in mid-eighteenth-century France over the roles of hypotheses, experimentation, and speculation in scientific methodology. This chapter examines her original views on the general topic of hypotheses by examining her extended attack throughout her Institutions de physique against the specific hypothesis regarding …
Genre littéraire, méthode, et portée de la philosophie: Le cas des préfaces de Margaret Cavendish
Les Physical and Philosophical Opinions fournissent des éléments intéressants pour comprendre la position de Cavendish sur l’égalité intellectuelle ou non des femmes et des hommes. Le texte lui-même ne fournit pas un compte rendu définitif des opinions de Cavendish sur le sujet. Cependant, la préface du livre, qui comprend d’importantes réflexions autobiographiques, aide à expliquer pourquoi Cavendish trouve ces questions si difficiles à aborder.…
Philosophy (5 works) · Epistemology (4 works) · Historical Philosophy and Science (4 works) · Historical and Literary Studies (3 works) · Theology (3 works) · Art (2 works) · History (2 works) · History of Science and Medicine (2 works) · Humanities (2 works) · Law (2 works)