Project Vox is featured on Duke Libraries’ Blog in the new Digital Project Profiles series by Digital Scholarship Services. Please read this new post about the early motivations for starting Project Vox and what we have learned working as part of the project team. This post highlights the more technical side of the project, but […]
The mind-body problem that troubles any serious Cartesian and has characterized debate in philosophy of mind for centuries does not find its source in a “typical” philosopher. The genius behind that crucial criticism of René Descartes is a princess of exiled Bohemian royalty. Princess Elisabeth of Bohemia (1618-1680) never published a work of her own; everything currently known […]
Julie Candler Hayes’s post is part of our Revealing Voices blog series. When I was an undergraduate philosophy major in the 70s, there were no women in sight. The picture started to shift when I was in grad school at Northwestern, moonlighting from the French Department in a Leibniz seminar taught by Ken Seeskind. As the lone […]
Michela Massimi’s post is part of our Revealing Voices blog series. My first encounter with the work of Gabrielle Émilie Du Châtelet was fortuitous, unexpected, and refreshing, like a thundery shower on a hot summer day. It was also surprisingly (and embarrassingly) very late in my academic career. I did not encounter Du Châtelet in my undergraduate […]
Check out Project Vox’s Andrew Janiak on the New Narratives in the History of Philosophy’s new podcast. The New Narratives project “aims to develop new narratives of our philosophical past that centrally include women thinkers, and thereby to reconfigure, enrich and reinvigorate the philosophical canon.” You can listen to Andrew talk about Project Vox, image culture, the philosophy […]
Laurynas Adomatis’s post is part of our Revealing Voices blog series. When I was already a doctoral student in Pisa working on Leibniz’s physics, I read a sad anecdote about how Galileo’s manuscripts were used as a wrapping paper for mortadella. They were initially entrusted to Vincenzo Viviani who hid them in the granary from the Inquisition. […]
We are excited to announce the addition of an Introduction to Philosophy narrative to our teaching materials page, along with several additional syllabi for the existing teaching narratives. The aim of our project is to promote the full integration of women philosophers into the canon through a narrative approach, situating them as active participants in the […]
Allauren Forbes’s post is part of our Revealing Voices blog series. My first experience with early modern women philosophers was Mary Astell’s A Serious Proposal to the Ladies. Once I picked it up, I couldn’t put it down—I immediately fell in love. I was struck by how distinctive Astell’s voice was, despite her clear Cartesian commitments, […]
This blog post highlights members of the 2017–2018 research team for Project Vox. The research team is a rotating group of students who collaborate to write new material for our site. This year the students wrote a new entry for Princess Elisabeth that will be available on our site soon pending review by our project […]
Emily Thomas’s post is part of our Revealing Voices blog series. I was a doctoral student when I discovered that women philosophers had existed before the twentieth century. I was hunting for secondary literature on early modern theories of space, trawling shelf stickers and book spines. In a section of the library uninspiringly named “A 32” […]
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 […]
Simone Webb’s post is part of our Revealing Voices blog series. Mary Astell’s (1666-1731) treatise A Serious Proposal to the Ladies (1694, 1697) has been analysed as utopian literature, a proto-feminist text, a philosophical work in which we can find Astell’s contributions to virtue theory and epistemology, and as an extended piece of rhetoric. These are […]
Nancy Kendrick’s post is part of our Revealing Voices blog series. A few years ago I was asked to contribute an essay on George Berkeley’s Bermuda Project to a volume a colleague was editing on Berkeley’s philosophy. The project was Berkeley’s plan to create a college in Bermuda in which Indigenous Americans and British […]
Project Vox would like to announce a new blog series dedicated to sharing research and stories from scholars of women philosophers. We chose to name the series Revealing Voices because we are revealing the voices of these formerly forgotten or understudied women philosophers, and we want to reveal the scholarly voices of those in the field. […]
Did you know that Project Vox publishes a biannual newsletter? Subscribe at the bottom of our home page by submitting your email address to learn about newly published information on the site. Last fall we sent a newsletter to announce our transcription of Émilie Du Châtelet’s Essai sur l’Optique. Remember that you can also follow […]
It’s the beginning of a new semester! Are you curious about how women philosophers would fit into your syllabus? Do you know about the different readings and source materials that you can provide your students? Project Vox’s Teaching section makes that easy! We provide sample syllabi from instructors all over the continent. See how […]
In the fall of 2014, a seminar group sat down to read a text that none of them had read before, not even the professor in the room. Worse than that, the text was in French, and only some of the participants could read French, so they set out to translate it as they went […]
Tell us about yourself. What brought you to work as the Assessment Analyst for Project Vox? My name is Adam Griggs and I am a Research Services Librarian at Mercer University. I found out about Project Vox as a second-year grad student in Library Science at UNC-Chapel Hill. At the time, I was hoping to […]
For the first time, the French text of Émilie Du Châtelet’s Essai sur l’Optique–her essay on optics–is now available. The release of the text represents an international collaboration and more than two years of work on four manuscript sources. Scholars working on Du Châtelet, women in early modern philosophy, and the history of science and optics will […]
Tell us about yourself. What brought you to work as a part of the Project Vox team? My name is Abby Flanigan and I’m currently the Research Librarian for Music and Performing Arts at the University of Virginia. I joined the Project Vox team in September 2015, at the start of my second year of […]
