Why Research and Teach Early Modern Women Philosophers

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ID21395037
AuthorsHope Sample (0000-0001-6620-8179, corresponding author)
Year2023
Volume61
Issue1
Pages257-274
Publication date2023-03-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueThe Southern Journal of Philosophy (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0038-4283 • E-ISSN: 2041-6962
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/sjp.12489
OpenAlexW4319793917
LanguageEN
References cited17

This paper makes explicit some issues of gender that have been implicitly raised in recent discussions concerning the recovery of European women's contributions to the history of seventeenth‐ and eighteenth‐century philosophy. A useful way to bring these issues to light is to distinguish between the project of recovering women's contributions and the project of justifying their inclusion. The former project is an important effort to provide a more accurate understanding of the history of philosophy. Within the latter project, there is a distinction between justifying the inclusion of a specific author and justifying women's inclusion in general. The suggestion that we need to justify women's inclusion in general is fundamentally illegitimate because it presumes that either women's philosophical ability is up for debate or that their contributions require special explanation, both of which are misogynist

Epistemology · Inclusion (mineral) · Social science · Sociology · American Constitutional Law and Politics · Historical Philosophy and Science · Philosophy · Religion, Gender, and Enlightenment

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