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, […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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. […]
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, […]
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 […]
Nancy Kendrick’s post is part of our Revealing Voices blog series. A few years ago I was asked to contribute an essay on George Berkeley’s Bermuda Project to a volume a colleague was editing on Berkeley’s philosophy. The project was Berkeley’s plan to create a college in Bermuda in which Indigenous Americans and British […]
Project Vox would like to announce a new blog series 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 in the field. […]
