Appendix: Two Forgotten Women Philosophers

After Hegel ◽  
2016 ◽  
pp. 217-220
Keyword(s):  
Women Philosophers

Pythagorean Women Philosophers

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dorota M. Dutsch
Keyword(s):  
Intellectual History ◽  
Possible Worlds ◽  
Literary Tradition ◽  
First Century ◽  
Wisdom Literature ◽  
Greek Culture ◽  
Female Voices ◽  
Grant Agency ◽  
Women Philosophers ◽  
Historical Accounts

Modern scholarly accounts of Greek philosophical history usually exclude women. And yet, from Dixaearchus of Messana to Diogenes Laertius, classical writers record the names of women philosophers from various schools. What is more, pseudonymous treatises and letters (likely dating after the first century CE) articulate the teachings of Pythagorean women. How can this literature inform our understanding of Greek intellectual history? To take these texts at face value would be naïve; to reject them, narrow-minded. This book is a deep examination of the literary tradition surrounding female Pythagoreans; it envisions the tradition as a network of texts that does not represent female philosophers but enacts their role in Greek culture. Part I, “Portraits,” assembles and contextualizes excerpts from historical accounts and wisdom literature. Part II, “Impersonations,” analyzes pseudonymous treatises and letters. Texts are approached with a mixture of suspicion and belief, inspired by Paul Ricoeur’s hermeneutics. Suspicion serves to disclose the misogyny of the epistemic regimes that produced the texts about and by women philosophers. Belief takes us beyond the circumstances of the texts’ production to possible worlds of diverse readers, institutions, and practices that grant agency to the female knower. In the process, the book uncovers traces of a fascinating dialogue about the gender of philosophical knowledge, which includes female voices.

Women philosophers and the canon

2002 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 641-652 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jonathan Rée
Keyword(s):  
Women Philosophers

Women Philosophers from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ruth Edith Hagengruber ◽  
Sarah Hutton
Keyword(s):  
The Enlightenment ◽  
Women Philosophers

Jewish Women Philosophers of First-Century Alexandria: Philo's "Therapeutae" Reconsidered

2005 ◽  
Vol 124 (2) ◽  
pp. 378
Author(s):  
Jorunn Okland ◽  
Joan E. Taylor
Keyword(s):  
First Century ◽  
Jewish Women ◽  
Women Philosophers

scholarly journals Is Utilitarianism Bad for Women?

2017 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
H. E. Baber
Keyword(s):  
Well Being ◽  
Global South ◽  
Economic Conditions ◽  
States Of Affairs ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Poor Women ◽  
Women Philosophers ◽  
Adaptive Preference ◽  
Favorable Conditions ◽  
Economics And Politics

Abstract Is Utilitarianism Bad for Women? Philosophers and policy-makers concerned with the ethics, economics, and politics of development argue that the phenomenon of ‘adaptive preference’ makes preference-utilitarian measures of well-being untenable. Poor women in the Global South, they suggest, adapt to deprivation and oppression and may come to prefer states of affairs that are not conducive to flourishing. This critique, however, assumes a questionable understanding of preference utilitarianism and, more fundamentally, of the concept of preference that figures in such accounts. If well-being is understood as preference-satisfaction it is easy to see why poor women in the Global South are badly off: even if they do not desire more favorable conditions they nevertheless prefer them, and that preference is not satisfied. Preferentism provides a rationale for improving economic conditions and dismantling the unjust institutions that prevent them from climbing higher on their preference-rankings. Utilitarianism, therefore, insofar as utility is understood as preference satisfaction, is good for women.

ENTRE HELENAS

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (42) ◽  
pp. 305
Author(s):  
Gislene Vale dos Santos
Keyword(s):  
History Of ◽  
Women Philosophers

É ponto comum e não discutível que a história da filosofia é construída majoritariamente por mãos masculinas; por isso, a importância de mostrar a contribuição do pensamento feminino silenciado por séculos. Nesse sentido, o objetivo deste artigo é evidenciar aquelas que contribuíram com a formação da própria concepção de filosofia, focando na reflexão construída pelas pensadoras gregas pitagóricas. Para isso me sirvo especialmente do trabalho de Mary Ellen Waithe, A history of women philosophers, 1992 (1987)

Introduction: new perspectives on women philosophers

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-11
Author(s):  
Ruth Edith Hagengruber ◽  
Sarah Hutton
Keyword(s):  
Women Philosophers
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