Posts 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 working in the field.
This post is part of our Revealing Voices blog series. I have been personally engaged with questions about God’s existence, the relationship between science and faith, and other concerns quite typical of contemporary philosophy of religion as far back as high school. But those questions sent me down a long philosophical rabbit hole that has led […]
This post is part of our Revealing Voices blog series. This month we are pleased to share a post from a dancer incorporating philosophy into her ballet career. A year ago, at sixteen, I made the most significant decision of my relatively young life. Perhaps “decision” is a misnomer, or at least bears a different meaning […]
This post is part of our Revealing Voices blog series. My writing on Lydia Maria Child was inspired by the United States’ 2016 election. I had been writing on classical German philosophy, Hegel especially, for most of my career. But now, in the face of America’s new reality, I resolved to turn to my own country, and […]
This post is part of our Revealing Voices blog series. There are two passions that drove me to philosophy. The first was a sense of wonder akin to what Aristotle described over two millennia ago in the opening line of his metaphysics. The second was a sense of horror. Let me explain. Ever since I was […]
This post is part of our Revealing Voices blog series. It was, no doubt, the great questions of the post-Kantian tradition that got me hooked on philosophy: How could one read texts such as Kant’s First Critique, Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit, Nietzsche’s Genealogy of Morals, or Marx’s Capital and not want more? I definitely wanted more. I started working on […]
This post is part of our Revealing Voices blog series. Women philosophers writing about women philosophers is a recent development in the history of philosophy. To date, almost all women philosophers that have been written about have been written about by men; and almost all women writing about philosophers have been writing about male ones.[1] Women writing […]
This post is part of our Revealing Voices blog series. We are Olivia Branscum and Haley Brennan, and together we run the New Narratives in the History of Philosophy podcast. This podcast project and Project Vox are part of the Extending New Narratives in the History of Philosophy project (funded by the Social Sciences and […]
This post marks our first where we include the native language of the contributor or the philosopher. We hope that by featuring multiple languages on our blog, we are able to share these Revealing Voices stories with a wider range of classrooms and audiences. Nicoly Monteiro edited the Portuguese version of this post. At the […]
Dalitso Ruwe’s post is part of our Revealing Voices blog series. In 2019, I became the first Black person to obtain a Doctor of Philosophy Degree in philosophy from Texas A&M University. My time at Texas A&M made me appreciate the different traditions of philosophical inquiry. In the areas of research, I was drawn particularly to […]
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’ […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
This post serves an introduction to the future publication of Project Vox’s Outreach & Assessment Manual. An earlier version of this post was originally presented at the Association for Computers and the Humanities meeting in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in July 2019 and was adapted to reflect the current state of the project. Meredith’s post is part […]
Theresa Helke’s post is part of our Revealing Voices blog series. Roy Auh: How did you first hear of Project Vox? Theresa Helke: I was trying to design a curriculum in the philosophy of language, looking to include a variety of voices and I’d been struggling, when I found among the results a couple of […]
Bo Karen Lee’s post is part of our Revealing Voices blog series. Roy Auh: How did you first come across not just one but two early modern scholarly women, Jeanne Guyon and Anna Maria van Schurman? Bo Karen Lee: When I was in seminary, someone in my church was reading Jeanne Guyon’s Experiencing the Depths of […]
Martine van Elk’s post is part of our Revealing Voices blog series. For much of my academic career, my research and teaching concentrated on early modern English literature, but about ten years ago, I came across a large anthology of writing by Dutch women, now also available in English translation, which changed my research radically. On seeing […]
Anne Larsen’s post is part of our Revealing Voices blog series. It has been stated that Anna Maria van Schurman’s defence of women’s higher education was timid and conservative because she did not oppose the sexual division of roles, unlike Marie de Gournay, her radical revisionary peer, who contended that women should take on the […]