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 […]
This collaborative post, authored by Anna Twiddy, is part of our Behind the Scenes blog series. For the first time in Project Vox history, we’ve published two entire philosopher entries in the span of just a few weeks: those of Mary Shepherd and Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz (if you haven’t checked out these […]
Sophia He and Laura Petersen’s post is part of our Project Vox Classroom blog series. What is Project Nota’s Story? Sophia He: In a conversation with my friend Skye Shirley, founder and executive director of Lupercal, a reading group for women and gender non-binary Latinists, I learned about Laura Cereta, a 15th-century Renaissance humanist. She […]
Damla Ozdemir’s post is part of our Behind the Scenes blog series. Roy Auh: How and when did you learn about Project Vox? Damla Ozdemir: Around my junior year of high school, I was reading a book about Voltaire because I was interested in physics, philosophy, and history, and found information about Émilie Du Châtelet. I became […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Jen Semler is currently completing her master’s degree in Medieval Icelandic Studies at the University of Iceland. She graduated from Duke University with a bachelor’s degree in philosophy and public policy. For Project Vox, she was part of the research team for the Princess Elisabeth and Anna Maria van Schurman cycles. This interview is part […]
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, […]
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 […]
