A History of Women Philosophers

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle.
- I. Biography.
- II. Works.
- III. Natural Philosophy.
- IV. Feminism.
- V. Conclusions.
- 2. Kristina Wasa, Queen of Sweden.
- I. Biography.
- II. Philosophy.
- 1. Traditional Assessments of Kristina's Views.
- 2. Kristina's Philosophical Development.
- 3. Kristina and Descartes.
- 4. Religious Skepticism.
- 5. Philosophy and Linguistics.
- 6. The Maxims.
- 7. Misogyny and Feminism.
- III. Conclusions.
- 3. Anne Finch, Viscountess Conway.
- I. Biography.
- II. Influence on Leibniz.
- III. Philosophical Writing.
- IV. Summary.
- 4. Sor Juana Inés De La Cruz.
- I. Biography.
- II. Prose Philosophical Works.
- 1. Carta Atenagórica.
- 2. Respuesta.
- III. Philosophical Poetry.
- 1. Sueño.
- 2. Sonnets.
- IV. Conclusions.
- 5. Damaris Cudworth Masham.
- I. Biography.
- II. Works.
- 1. Correspondence.
- 2. Faith and Reason.
- 3. Women, Education and Reason.
- 4. Epistemology, Feminism and Moral Philosophy.
- III. Conclusions.
- 6. Mary Astell.
- I. Biography.
- II. Works.
- III. Religious Epistemology and Women.
- 1. Condition of Women.
- 2. Women, Epistemology and Reason.
- 3. Marriage and Subjection of Women.
- IV. Epistemology and Religious Knowledge.
- 1. Reason and Revelation.
- 2. Whether Matter Can Think.
- 3. Whether God is the Efficient Cause of Pain and Pleasure.
- V. Conclusions.
- 7. Catharine Trotter Cockburn.
- I. Biography.
- II. Philosophical Writings.
- III. Epistemological Foundations of Moral Law.
- 1. Knowledge of Virtue and Vice.
- 2. Natural Conscience.
- IV. Epistemological Foundation of Religion.
- 1. The Role of Rewards and Punishments.
- 2. On Revelation.
- V. The Immortality of the Soul.
- 1. Whether God May Add Thought to Matter.
- VI. Summary.
- VII. Conclusions.
- 8. Gabrielle Émilie Le Tonnelier De Breteuil Du Châtelet-Lomont.
- I. Biography.
- II. Ethics, Religion and Philosophy of Language.
- 1. Ethics.
- 2. Philosophy of Religion.
- 3. Philosophy of Language.
- III. Collaborative Works.
- 1. Collaboration on Voltaire's Éléments.
- 2. Collaboration with Voltaire on Traité de Métaphysique.
- IV. Metaphysics.
- 1. Writings on Metaphysics and Philosophy of Science.
- 2. The Development of du Châtelet's Views on Metaphysics.
- 3. Free Will: Problems for Newtonian Science.
- 4. Solving the Problems of Newtonianism.
- 5. Reaction to du Châtelet's Metaphysics.
- V. Philosophy of Science.
- 1. Fire, Light and Color.
- 2. Scientific Method.
- VI. Conclusions.
- 9. Mary Wollstonecraft.
- I. Biography.
- II. Works.
- III. Philosophy.
- 1. Human Nature.
- 2. Ethics.
- 3. Social and Political Philosophy.
- 4. Philosophy of Education.
- 5. Influences on Wollstonecraft's Philosophy.
- 6. Critique of Rousseau.
- IV. Conclusions.
- 10. Clarisse Coignet.
- I. Introduction.
- II. Metaethics and Moral Philosophy.
- 1. The New Science of Morality.
- 2. Freedom, a Fact of Human Nature.
- 3. Man, the Creator of Morality.
- 4. Duty, a Law of Conscience.
- III. Political and Social Philosophy.
- 1. The State, an Extension of Individual Morality.
- 2. The Social Contract.
- 3. The Separation of Religion and Morality.
- 4. Women's Suffrage and Women's Destiny.
- IV. Conclusions.
- 11. Antoinette Brown Blackwell.
- I. Biography.
- II. Philosophy.
- 1. Metaphysics.
- 2. Truth.
- 3. Perception.
- 4. Time.
- 5. God.
- 6. Immortality.
- 7. Mind/Body Problem.
- 8. Nature of the Sexes.
- III. Conclusions.
- 12. Julie Velten Favre.
- I. Biography.
- II. Works.
- III. Philosophy.
- 1. The Unity of Moral Law.
- 2. Woman's Moral Vocation.
- 3. The Great Human Family.
- 4. An "Ethics of Abundance".
- IV. Conclusions.
- 13. Women Philosophers of the Seventeenth, Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries.
- I. The Seventeenth Century.
- 1. Anna Maria van Schurman.
- 2. Bathsua Pell Makin.
- 3. Elisabeth of Bohemia, Princess Palatine.
- 4. Helena Lucretia Cornaro Piscopia.
- II. The Eighteenth Century.
- 1. Laura Bassi Verati.
- 2. Catharine Sawbridge Macaulay-Graham.
- 3. Sophia, a Person of Quality [pseud.].
- 4. (Marie) Olympe de Gouges (Marie de Gouzes).
- 5. Mary Fairfax Somerville.
- 6. Anna Doyle Wheeler.
- III. The Nineteenth Century.
- 1. Catharine Ward Beecher.
- 2. Harriet Martineau.
- 3. Harriet Hardy Taylor Mill.
- 4. Jenny Poinsard d'Héricourt.
- 5. George Eliot (Marian Evans).
- 6. Clemence Royer.
- 7. Juliette Lambert La Messine Adam.
- 8. Christine Ladd-Franklin.
- 9. Hortense Allart de Meritens.
- IV. Conclusions.