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“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 […]
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 […]
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 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 semester, many of our undergraduate team members are registered for a course focusing on the research methods of Project Vox. Dana Hogan and Yasemin Altun led the students through a semester of learning the ways that we train students to write for a public audience, how to conduct research in philosophy, and how to collaborate on a […]
This semester, many of our undergraduate team members are registered for a course focusing on the research methods of Project Vox. Dana Hogan and Yasemin Altun are leading the students through a semester of learning the ways that we train students to write for a public audience, how to conduct research in philosophy, and how […]
Please enjoy a Behind the Scenes post that provides the story of two undergraduate researchers working to create our first network visualization. Please watch the video below where they explain their process. Here is how the story begins: Duke Kunshan University students Karen Nielsen, majoring in philosophy, and Junyi Tao, majoring in data science, join […]
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 […]
This post, authored by Yasemin Altun, is part of our Behind the Scenes blog series. Allow me, briefly, to judge a website by its cover. Type to the front page of projectvox.org and a carrousel of images immediately fills your screen. Women of varied gazes and guises face you for a moment, before dissolving into the […]
Project Vox is comprised of undergraduates, graduate students, postdoctoral researchers, faculty, staff, and community members. With such an array of contributors, our team has developed formalized roles for project management while maintaining flexibility to accommodate different forms of participation and levels of commitment. This post is written from my perspective as Research Lead, a role […]
Over the past two and a half years, I have participated in Project Vox’s research team as a volunteer, a student, and ultimately as Research Lead, a formalized role which involves mentorship and management of the research team. As a PhD candidate in Art History specializing in early modern women artists, I was attracted to […]
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 […]
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 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 […]
It’s no secret that the Project Vox team features members from all kinds of scholarly backgrounds. From undergraduate students to faculty members, so much of what makes Project Vox unique, and what allows it to accomplish what it has accomplished, can be attributed to the fact that it incorporates so many diverse types of expertise […]
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 […]
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 […]