Alison Stone’s post is part of our Revealing Voices blog series. Frances Power Cobbe (1822-1904) was a prominent ethicist, feminist, advocate for animal welfare, and critic of Darwinism and atheism, very well known in the Victorian era. Such was her reputation in her time that when the scientist Richard Owen criticised her for championing animals’ […]
This collaborative post, authored by Anna Twiddy, is part of our Behind the Scenes blog series. For the first time in Project Vox history, we’ve published two entire philosopher entries in the span of just a few weeks: those of Mary Shepherd and Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz (if you haven’t checked out these […]
Meet Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, the newest philosopher on Project Vox! Perdirte, Señora, quiero I Beg You, Señora (translated by Jaime Manrique and Joan Larkin) Que en mi amorosa passion no fue descuido, ni mengua, quitar el uso a la lengua por dárselo al corazón. Moved by my passion— not careless, not indifferent— […]
Skye Shirley’s post is part of our Revealing Voices blog series. I started keeping a diary when I was twelve. Like many young women, I found in my diaries a space for unbridled questioning, imagining, and self-expression. At my peak around age sixteen, I bought a jumbo 500-page journal and filled it within months. I […]
Meet Lady Mary Shepherd: New Philosopher on Project Vox! Enter Lady Mary Shepheard Imbued with a taste for Prose, poesy, paste Metaphysics to lull her Polemics -Samuel Coleridge Mary Shepherd (1777-1847) was a Scottish philosopher who engaged with numerous scientific and philosophical issues of her era within an especially rich intellectual context. Shepherd (née Primrose) […]
Sophia He and Laura Petersen’s post is part of our Project Vox Classroom blog series. What is Project Nota’s Story? Sophia He: In a conversation with my friend Skye Shirley, founder and executive director of Lupercal, a reading group for women and gender non-binary Latinists, I learned about Laura Cereta, a 15th-century Renaissance humanist. She […]
The philosophers featured on Project Vox were historically excluded from formal education, therefore they had to be creative in their pursuit of knowledge. Our newest series, Project Vox Classroom, explores where learning happens and how the classroom experience is shaped when incorporating marginalized philosophers. A relearning of philosophy occurs when syllabi critically consider the boundaries […]
Over the course of the next couple of months, Project Vox will be reflecting changes we’ve been working on over the past year. In the past, Project Vox’s primary focus has been on early modern European and British women philosophers. Our Revealing Voices blog series began featuring scholars working on philosophers beyond the early modern […]
Dana Hogan’s post is part of our Behind the Scenes blog series. On the Project Vox site, you can read our polished philosopher profiles and the Behind-the-Scenes blog posts about the work that goes into creating these profiles; but what happens before all that? How does the team select a philosopher? The Project Vox team […]
Arpita Varghese is currently the Gender and Humanities Action Analyst for UN Women. She completed her BA in Global Studies at Duke University in 2015, and her MSc in Global Governance and Diplomacy at the University of Oxford. While at Duke, Arpita assisted Project Vox with various research on women philosophers. This interview is part of Where […]
Deepshikha Sharma’s post is part of our Revealing Voices blog series. The Orient or The Occident, the malestreamness of Philosophy pervades all academic institutions. While I dabbled The Vedas and The Republic, I barely came across women philosophers in the prescribed syllabi. Tokenistic approaches or footnotes mentioned them in hushed voices and minuscule fonts. And […]
Jacqueline Broad and Catherine Sutherland’s post is part of our Revealing Voices blog series. In his biographical sketch of Mary Astell in 1752, George Ballard records Astell as ‘intimately acquainted with many classic authors. Those she admired most were Zenophon, Plato, Hierocles, Tully, Seneca, Epictetus, and M. Antoninus.’[1] In Ruth Perry’s landmark biography of Mary […]
Céline Leboeuf’s post is part of our Revealing Voices blog series. In addition to this Revealing Voices post, Professor Céline Leboeuf has generously shared a syllabus for her Philosophy of Gender and Race course: Céline Leboeuf Gender and Race Fall 2020 My introduction to Simone de Beauvoir was Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter, the first volume […]
