Please enjoy a Behind the Scenes post that provides the story of two undergraduate researchers working to create our first network visualization. Please watch the video below where they explain their process. Here is how the story begins: Duke Kunshan University students Karen Nielsen, majoring in philosophy, and Junyi Tao, majoring in data science, join […]
This post accompanies the publication of The Philosopher Queens, a crowd-funded book edited by Rebecca Buxton and Lisa Whiting. The mission of this book, like that of the Revealing Voices, reflects a need to share stories and ideas of women philosophers and the collaboration of women in scholarship. Although this book is a collaboration between […]
Jen Semler is currently completing her master’s degree in Medieval Icelandic Studies at the University of Iceland. She graduated from Duke University with a bachelor’s degree in philosophy and public policy. For Project Vox, she was part of the research team for the Princess Elisabeth and Anna Maria van Schurman cycles. This interview is part […]
Jen Semler’s post is part of our Revealing Voices blog series. Looking down at my History of Modern Philosophy syllabus, I saw the usual suspects: Descartes, Leibniz, Clarke, Locke, Hume, and Kant. But I also saw two names that I had never heard of: Princess Elisabeth (1618-1680) and Émilie Du Châtelet (1706-1749). Who were these women, […]
Roy Auh’s post is part of our Revealing Voices blog series. On August 16th in Beijing, I had the opportunity to present a paper about Project Vox at the 24th World Congress of Philosophy. A world’s fair for all things academic philosophy, this conference by the International Federation of Philosophical Societies boasted an attendance of 8000 […]
Deborah Boyle’s post is part of our Revealing Voices blog series. I first heard about Margaret Cavendish at a regional conference in 2001, and I was fascinated. I borrowed the presenter’s copy of Paper Bodies—a collection containing Blazing World, Cavendish’s autobiography, and a few of her poems—for the weekend. Looking for more Cavendish to read after that, […]
Jill Hernandez’s post is part of our Revealing Voices blog series. It’s probably not shocking to learn that I quite accidentally stumbled upon the trove of scholarship by early modern women by way of studying well-trodden arguments by early modern men. The experience is akin to one I had this morning, when I looked at the other […]
