News and announcements about Project Vox, including information about newly available resources, updated site content, and Project Vox in the media.
We are happy to announce that our pre-college lesson plans are now available. These lesson plans feature Project Vox philosophers who made important contributions to ethical, political, scientific and literary debates that are commonly taught in high-school English Language Arts and social studies courses. Each lesson enables students to engage in philosophical inquiry, helps sharpen […]
Project Vox is pleased to announce the launch of a new community space called SandVox, a venue for sharing unconventional, ephemeral, or experimental scholarly work with our audience. In contrast to our main content—philosopher entries, teaching materials, a timeline, and an image gallery—SandVox projects can be created by anyone, and they are not hosted by […]
On October 5, former team member Emilie Menzel will talk about her work with Project Vox as part of a panel of Duke researchers engaged in open scholarship. (If you’re in the area and you’d like to attend this in-person talk, more information and a registration link can be found at https://duke.libcal.com/event/11159787.) Emilie joined our […]
“The more ignorant a people are, the easier it is for an absolute government to exercise its unlimited power over them. It is based on this principle, so contrary to the progressive march of civilization, that most men oppose women’s access to the means of cultivating their spirits. However, this is a mistake that has […]
We have a new teaching page and would like to your help filling it with helpful resources for instructors of philosophy. Please read more about our new teaching page here. Teaching materials are welcomed from individuals with relevant subject area expertise and teaching experience. We are organizing these materials into two categories: syllabi and teaching materials. We also […]
This post addresses our revised Teaching Page by Emilie Menzel, Teaching Resources Analyst. We are delighted to announce the results of what has been a year long endeavor: assessing and updating the teaching resources page on our Project Vox website. Project Vox has supported the collection and publication of philosophy course syllabi for nearly two […]
Meet Tullia d’Aragona, the newest philosopher on Project Vox! Tullia d’Aragona was a sixteenth-century poet, philosopher, and cortegiana honesta [honorable courtesan], a courtesan recognized and praised for her intellectual abilities. Born in Rome around the turn of the sixteenth century, she traveled to intellectual centers throughout the Italian peninsula, where she gained the favor of […]
Many of you who responded to our recent teaching page survey remarked that you would like access to more texts by the women philosophers on our website. We would like to point you to our transcription and translation of Émilie Du Châtelet‘s Essai sur l’Optique. Bryce Gessell, Fritz Nagel, and Andrew Janiak edited the transcription in […]
The original Project Vox team in 2014 included faculty and staff and quickly grew to include student workers, both graduate students and undergraduates. If you have read our blog, you know that students are part of all aspects of our team and we pride ourselves on mentorship to and among them. From the beginning, Project […]
This semester, Project Vox reached a wonderful milestone: 100,000 unique users have now visited our site! As a small project focused on team mentorship and training in academic research, 100,000 unduplicated visitors to the Project Vox website is a number well worth celebrating. These analytics also demonstrate the importance and reach of open-access scholarship. We […]
When universities began to move online in spring 2020 as a result of Covid-19, Project Vox published a list of permanent online resources to use in the classroom. As we are still in a global pandemic, we would like to share these resources again with updated links and some added materials. In these uncertain times, […]
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— […]
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) […]
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 […]
Since 2016 Project Vox has worked to build and connect a broad community centered around reforming philosophy instruction, and has seen both clear engagement from that audience as well as positive responses from scholars, students, and the general public. In our view, we would not have been so successful, had we not had an individual […]
Meet Anna Maria van Schurman: New Philosopher on Project Vox! If there is ever a person where describing them as “remarkable,” “extraordinary,” or “incredible” is an understatement, it is the Dutch genius Anna Maria van Schurman (1607-1678). To start, she was fluent in more than a dozen of languages, deeply erudite in a variety of […]
The Project Vox team hopes everyone is remaining safe amid the coronavirus outbreak and its consequences in our daily life. As educators move their instruction online in response to efforts to contain the outbreak, many vendors have responded by making their previously restricted materials freely available to the public for a limited time. Project Vox, […]
We are excited to announce an UPDATED bibliography of Émilie Du Châtelet! Onto the Bibliography section of Émilie Du Châtelet, we have included dozens of new sources that have been published since our entry was originally launched on 2015. Check them out now! We hope to continue keeping our philosopher entries as up-to-date with relevant […]
Émilie Du Châtelet worked on various scientific topics during the late 1730s, and the Essai sur l’Optique, or “essay on optics,” comes from that period. It shares much in common with her essay on the nature and propagation of fire, and serves as an important counterpoint to some aspects of her major later work, the […]