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Chris Meyns’s post is part of our Revealing Voices blog series. In 1758, a revolutionary text left London-based printer S. Richardson, swiftly finding its way from booksellers in The Strand and Pall Mall to the shelves of hundreds of philosophically inclined households. Supported by over 100 subscribers in an early form of crowdfunding, here was the […]
Jen Semler’s post is part of our Revealing Voices blog series. Looking down at my History of Modern Philosophy syllabus, I saw the usual suspects: Descartes, Leibniz, Clarke, Locke, Hume, and Kant. But I also saw two names that I had never heard of: Princess Elisabeth (1618-1680) and Émilie Du Châtelet (1706-1749). Who were these women, […]
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 […]
In September 2018 we started migrating the Project Vox cumulative bibliography from Endnote to Zotero in order to make it more available to the public and to enable our far-flung volunteers to work on it. The Zotero library has folders for the various figures from Project Vox. Please check out this open-access resource here. Our […]
Tell us about yourself. What brought you to work as an Image Metadata Intern for Project Vox? Stacy: I am an aspiring librarian with interests in history, women’s studies, African American culture, and outreach. I came to Project Vox to expand my librarian skill set and to support the study of women philosophers. Heather: As […]
Roy Auh’s post is part of our Revealing Voices blog series. On August 16th in Beijing, I had the opportunity to present a paper about Project Vox at the 24th World Congress of Philosophy. A world’s fair for all things academic philosophy, this conference by the International Federation of Philosophical Societies boasted an attendance of 8000 […]
Project Vox is pleased to announce the Du Châtelet Prize in Philosophy of Physics, an award that celebrates excellence in philosophy of physics and promotes breadth across the field both historically and philosophically. The prize—supported by Duke in collaboration with the Studies in History and Philosophy of Science—will be awarded next Spring to a U.S. or international […]
Deborah Boyle’s post is part of our Revealing Voices blog series. I first heard about Margaret Cavendish at a regional conference in 2001, and I was fascinated. I borrowed the presenter’s copy of Paper Bodies—a collection containing Blazing World, Cavendish’s autobiography, and a few of her poems—for the weekend. Looking for more Cavendish to read after that, […]
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 […]
