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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
