Feminist Reflections on the History of Philosophy
Feminist work in the history of philosophy has come of age as an innovative field in the history of philosophy. This volume marks that accomplishment with original essays by leading feminist scholars who ask basic questions: What is distinctive of feminis
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The New Synthese Historical Library Texts and Studies in the History of Philosophy VOLUME 55
Managing Editor: SIMO KNUUTTILA, University of Helsinki
Associate Editors: DANIEL ELLIOT GARBER, University of Chicago RICHARD SORABJI, University of London
Editorial Consultants: JAN A. AERTSEN, Thomas-Institut, Universität zu Köln ROGER ARIEW, Virginia Polytechnic Institute E. JENNIFER ASHWORTH, University of Waterloo MICHAEL AYERS, Wadham College, Oxford GAIL FINE, Cornell University R. J. HANKINSON, University of Texas JAAKKO HINTIKKA, Boston University PAUL HOFFMAN, University of California, Riverside DAVID KONSTAN, Brown University RICHARD H. KRAUT, Northwestern University, Evanston ALAIN DE LIBERA, Université de Genève JOHN E. MURDOCH, Harvard University DAVID FATE NORTON, McGill University LUCA OBERTELLO, Università degli Studi di Genova ELEONORE STUMP, St. Louis University ALLEN WOOD, Stanford University
The titles published in this series are listed at the end of this volume.
FEMINIST REFLECTIONS ON THE HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY Edited by LILLI ALANEN University of Uppsala, Sweden
and
CHARLOTTE WITT University of New Hampshire, Durham, U.S.A.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS
vii
CHARLOTTE WITT, PREFACE
xi
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS CHARLOTTE WITT, Feminist History of Philosophy
xvii 1
KRISTIN SAMPSON, Identity and Gender in Plato
17
CYNTHIA FREELAND, Schemes and Scenes of Reading the Timaeus
33
SIGRIDUR THORGEIRSDOTTIR, Nietzsche’s Feminization of Metaphysics and its Significance for Theories of Gender Difference
51
MARTINA REUTER, Psychologizing Cartesian Doubt: Feminist Reading Strategies and the “Unthought” of Philosophy
69
ROBIN MAY SCHOTT, Feminist Rationality Debates: Rereading Kant
101
CHARLOTTE WITT, Form, Normativity and Gender in Aristotle: A Feminist Perspective
117
SARA HEINÄMAA, The Soul-Body Union and Sexual Difference: From Descartes to Merleau-Ponty and Beauvoir
137
ANNE J. JACOBSON, The Psychology of Philosophy: Interpreting Locke and Hume
153
DON GARRETT, Hume as a Man of Reason and Woman’s Philosopher
171
LILLI ALANEN, Descartes and Elisabeth: A Philosophical Dialogue?
193
LISA SHAPIRO, Some Thoughts on the Place of Women in Early Modern Philosophy
219
LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS
LILLI ALANEN is Professor of Philosophy at Uppsala University. Her current research interests are in early modern philosophy, philosophy of mind, moral philosophy and psychology. She is co-editor of Commonali
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