Women's Perspectives on Ancient and Medieval Philosophy

1. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-3-030-73189-2
Verlag: Springer International Publishing

Buch, Englisch, Band 24, 357 Seiten, HC runder Rücken kaschiert, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 735 g

Reihe: Logic, Argumentation & Reasoning

This book promotes the research of present-day women working in ancient and medieval philosophy, with more than 60 women having contributed in some way to the volume in a fruitful collaboration. It contains 22 papers organized into ten distinct parts spanning the sixth century BCE to the fifteenth century CE.

Each part has the same structure: it features, first, a paper which sets up the discussion, and then, one or two responses that open new perspectives and engage in further reflections. Our authors’ contributions address pivotal moments and players in the history of philosophy: women philosophers in antiquity, Cleobulina of Rhodes, Plato, Lucretius, Bardaisan of Edessa, Alexander of Aphrodisias, Plotinus, Porphyry, Peter Abelard, Robert Kilwardby, William Ockham, John Buridan, and Isotta Nogarola.

The result is a thought-provoking collection of papers that will be of interest to historians of philosophy from all horizons. Far from being an isolated effort, thisbook is a contribution to the ever-growing number of initiatives which endeavour to showcase the work of women in philosophy.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Chouinard, Isabelle

Noël, Roxane

McConaughey, Zoe

Medeiros Ramos, Aline

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie Antike Philosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie Mittelalterliche & Scholastische Philosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Moderne Philosophische Disziplinen Feministische Philosophie, Gender Studies

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Part 1. Women Philosophers in Antiquity.- 1. Women Philosophers in Antiquity: Open Questions and Some Results (Maddalena Bonelli).- 2. Women Philosophers in Antiquity and the Reshaping of Philosophy (Katharine R. O’Reilly).- Part 2. The Riddles of Cleobulina of Rhodes.- 3. Cleobulina of Rhodes and the Philosophical Power of Riddles (Mariana Gardella Hueso).- 4. The Riddles of Cleobulina: A Response to Mariana Gardella Hueso’s “Cleobulina of Rhodes and the Philosophical Power of Riddles” (Anna Potamiti).- Part 3. Women in Plato’s Republic and Statesman.- 5. What Happened to the Philosopher Queens? On the “Disappearance” of Female Rulers in Plato’s Statesman (Annie Larivée).- 6. Women and Childrearing in the Republic (Emily Fletcher).- Part 4. Lucretius on Women’s Sexuality.- 7. Sexual Freedom and Feminine Pleasure in Lucretius (Julie Giovacchini).- 8. An Epicurean Community of Women: A Response to Julie Giovacchini (Natania Meeker).- Part 5. Bardaisan of Edessa and Alexander of Aphrodisias on Fate, Nature, and Freedom.- 9. Destiny, Nature and Freedom According to Bardaisan and Alexander of Aphrodisias: An Unknown Aspect of the Controversy Against Determinism (Izabela Jurasz).- 10. How to Limit Fatalism? A Comparison Between Alexander of Aphrodisias and Bardaisan (Isabelle Koch).- 11. Bardaisan of Edessa on free will, Fate, and Nature: Alexander of Aphrodisias, Origen, and Diodore of Tarsus (Ilaria L. E. Ramelli).- Part 6. Plotinus and Porphyry on Women.- 12. Plotinus and Porphyry on Women’s Legitimacy in Philosophy (Mathilde Cambron-Goulet and François-Julien Côté-Remy).- 13. Soul, Gender and Hierarchy in Plotinus and Porphyry: A Response to Mathilde Cambron-Goulet and François-Julien Côté-Remy’s “Plotinus and Porphyry on Women’s Legitimacy in Philosophy” (Jana Schultz).- 14. Women and Philosophy in Porphyry’s Life of Plotinus (Alexandra Michalewski).- Part 7. The Concept of Nature in Peter Abelard.- 15. Abelard’s Homo Intelligitur Puzzle: On the Relation Between Universal

Über Autor(innen)

Isabelle Chouinard
is a PhD candidate in philosophy at the Université de Montréal and the Centre Léon Robin (Sorbonne Université) under the joint supervision of Louis-André Dorion and Jean-Baptiste Gourinat. Her dissertation examines the Stoic reception of ancient Cynicism. Her main areas of research include Socratic and Hellenistic schools of philosophy, especially Cynicism, Cyrenaic hedonism and Stoicism. She teaches ancient Greek at the Université de Montréal. 
Zoe McConaughey?
is?
agrégée
in philosophy; PhD student at the Université de Lille (France) and the Université du Québec à Montréal (Canada), she will defend in 2021 her dissertation entitled “Aristotle. Science and the dialectician's activity.” Her research deals with history and philosophy of logic, thus encompassing both historical issues, especially Aristotelian logic and epistemology, and?logical issues, in particular dialogical logic. She is co-author of?
Immanent Reasoning or Equalityin Action?
(Springer, 2018), with Shahid Rahman, Ansten Klev and Nicolas Clerbout. 
Aline Medeiros Ramos
is an instructor (
chargée de cours
) in philosophy at the Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières, in Canada. She is also a PhD candidate in philosophy at the Université du Québec à Montréal, currently writing her dissertation under the supervision of Claude Panaccio on the intellectual virtues according to John Buridan. In addition to specializing in medieval philosophy focusing on the late Middle Ages, she is also generally interested in ethics and, in particular, virtue theory. 
Roxane Noël
is a Gates scholar currently writing her PhD thesis at the University of Cambridge under the supervision of John Marenbon. She specializes in medieval philosophy, with a special focus on the twelfth century. Her M.A. thesis, titled “Understanding universals in Abelard’s
Tractatus de intellectibus
: The notion of ‘nature’”, was written under the supervision of Jack Zupko, at the University of Alberta, with support from SSHRC and FRQSC.