Joanna Baillie on Sympathetic Curiosity and Elizabeth Hamilton's Critique
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21876352 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Deborah Boyle (0000-0003-2975-2268, College of Charleston, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Volume | 11 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 20-41 |
| Publication date | 2025-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of the American Philosophical Association (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2053-4477 • E-ISSN: 2053-4485 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/apa.2024.1 |
| OpenAlex | W4392914554 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 37 |
Scholars working on recovering forgotten historical women philosophers have noted the importance of looking beyond traditional philosophical genres. This strategy is particularly important for finding Scottish women philosophers. By considering non-canonical genres, we can see the philosophical interest of the works of Scottish poet and playwright Joanna Baillie (1762–1851), who presents an account of “sympathetic curiosity” as one of the basic principles of the human mind. Baillie's work is also interesting for being a rare case of a woman's philosophical work that was discussed in print by another woman philosopher – in this case, by Elizabeth Hamilton (1758–1816), who argues for the importance of a feature of human nature that she calls the “selfish principle.” The article suggests that focusing on critical engagements between historical women philosophers can help integrate their texts into the history of philosophy without presenting them as “handmaidens” to male philosophers
Curiosity · Psychoanalysis · Sociology · Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes · Literature: history, themes, analysis · Philosophy · Psychology · Religion, Gender, and Enlightenment · Social Psychology
Adam Smith
The Anti-Jacobin Novel
Korean Women Philosophers and the Ideal of a Female Sage
A Hidden Wisdom
The Science of a Legislator
Sympathy in Hume and Smith
Women in fiction
Elizabeth Hamilton’s Memoirs of Modern Philosophers as a philosophical text
Women’s Legal Landmarks
A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful
Martineau, Cobbe, and teleological progressivism
Impudent and Mannish Grown?" "Women's Ministry" in the Church of Scotland
The Persona of the Woman Philosopher in Eighteenth‐Century England
Elizabeth Hamilton on Sympathy and the Selfish Principle
Sympathy and moral sense
The links between Mary Wollstonecraft and Catharine Macaulay
Scottish Philosophy after the Enlightenment
| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |