Allauren Samantha Forbes
Biographic Data
| ID | 6533582 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Allauren Samantha Forbes |
| GIVEN NAMES | Allauren Samantha |
| FAMILY NAME | Forbes |
| SIGNATURE | FORBES A S |
| AFFILIATIONS | McMaster University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5627-6258 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
The Case for Malebranche’s Feminist Potential
Can Nicolas Malebranche be usefully understood as a feminist thinker and, if so, in what ways? While Malebranche remains a major figure in early modern European philosophy, it is not obvious that he was a feminist ally, particularly in comparison to some of his canonical brethren. In this chapter, the author explores the case for Malebranche’s feminist potential. She argues that Malebranche might not have thought of himself as a feminist, but tha…
Scudéry’s portraits
In the ongoing project of recovering and (re)integrating early modern European women philosophers, scholars have been re-examining not only who counts as a philosopher, but what kinds of works are properly understood as philosophical. Madeleine de Scudéry is best remembered as a novelist, but some scholars have argued that her dialogues are richly philosophical. Here, I examine an early and overlooked text from Scudéry – Illustrious Women – which…
Mary Brunton, Self-Control
Prejudice as Viciousness
Marie de Gournay and Anton Wilhelm Amo, though thinking and writing in different social contexts, each offer an account of prejudice which bears a deep philosophical resonance to that of the other. This resonance is striking and mutually illuminating: Gournay and Amo develop a view of prejudice as a kind of epistemic and moral viciousness that damages both the prejudicial person and their socio‐epistemic neighbors. Their accounts highlight how ag…
Madeleine de Scudéry on conversation and its feminist ends
Madeleine de Scudéry (1607–1701) is best remembered as a novelist rather than as a philosopher, but she is both a gifted literary figure and an overlooked philosopher. These roles are, at least in her case, inseparable. Through her dialogues, Scudéry offers an account of the conversation that is at once a rhetorical social art as well as a substantive philosophical phenomenon and socio-political practice with feminist effects. According to Scudér…
Astell, friendship, and relational autonomy
Mary Astell's theory of friendship is rich and interesting: it presents the reader with an interpretive puzzle that addresses the nature and roles of virtue and love in friendship, among other things. Recently, Jacqueline Broad and Nancy Kendrick have tackled this puzzle. Broad offers a loosely Aristotelian interpretation, and Kendrick offers an anti‐Aristotelian Christian Platonist interpretation. However, neither fully discharges the apparent t…
Mary Astell on Bad Custom and Epistemic Injustice
Mary Astell is a fascinating seventeenth‐century figure whose work admits of many interpretations. One feature of her work that has received little attention is her focus on bad custom. This is surprising; Astell clearly regards bad custom as exerting a kind of epistemic power over agents, particularly women, in a way that limits their intellectual capacities. This article aims to link two contemporary sociopolitical/social‐epistemological projec…
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Mary Astell on Bad Custom and Epistemic Injustice
Mary Astell is a fascinating seventeenth‐century figure whose work admits of many interpretations. One feature of her work that has received little attention is her focus on bad custom. This is surprising; Astell clearly regards bad custom as exerting a kind of epistemic power over agents, particularly women, in a way that limits their intellectual capacities. This article aims to link two contemporary sociopolitical/social‐epistemological projec…
Astell, friendship, and relational autonomy
Mary Astell's theory of friendship is rich and interesting: it presents the reader with an interpretive puzzle that addresses the nature and roles of virtue and love in friendship, among other things. Recently, Jacqueline Broad and Nancy Kendrick have tackled this puzzle. Broad offers a loosely Aristotelian interpretation, and Kendrick offers an anti‐Aristotelian Christian Platonist interpretation. However, neither fully discharges the apparent t…
Madeleine de Scudéry on conversation and its feminist ends
Madeleine de Scudéry (1607–1701) is best remembered as a novelist rather than as a philosopher, but she is both a gifted literary figure and an overlooked philosopher. These roles are, at least in her case, inseparable. Through her dialogues, Scudéry offers an account of the conversation that is at once a rhetorical social art as well as a substantive philosophical phenomenon and socio-political practice with feminist effects. According to Scudér…
Prejudice as Viciousness
Marie de Gournay and Anton Wilhelm Amo, though thinking and writing in different social contexts, each offer an account of prejudice which bears a deep philosophical resonance to that of the other. This resonance is striking and mutually illuminating: Gournay and Amo develop a view of prejudice as a kind of epistemic and moral viciousness that damages both the prejudicial person and their socio‐epistemic neighbors. Their accounts highlight how ag…
Scudéry’s portraits
In the ongoing project of recovering and (re)integrating early modern European women philosophers, scholars have been re-examining not only who counts as a philosopher, but what kinds of works are properly understood as philosophical. Madeleine de Scudéry is best remembered as a novelist, but some scholars have argued that her dialogues are richly philosophical. Here, I examine an early and overlooked text from Scudéry – Illustrious Women – which…
Mary Brunton, Self-Control
The Case for Malebranche’s Feminist Potential
Can Nicolas Malebranche be usefully understood as a feminist thinker and, if so, in what ways? While Malebranche remains a major figure in early modern European philosophy, it is not obvious that he was a feminist ally, particularly in comparison to some of his canonical brethren. In this chapter, the author explores the case for Malebranche’s feminist potential. She argues that Malebranche might not have thought of himself as a feminist, but tha…
Epistemology (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Law (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Social Psychology (3 works) · Art (2 works) · Art history (2 works) · Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics (2 works) · Feminist Epistemology and Gender Studies (2 works)