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, […]