Overview
- Introduces methodological concepts for including women in the canon of the history of philosophy
- Shows how including women in the writing of the history of philosophy changes ideas about the content and styles of philosophy
- Explains how the history of philosophy changes when women thinkers are included
Part of the book series: Women in the History of Philosophy and Sciences (WHPS, volume 3)
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Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Methodology
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Celebrating Women Philosophers in Art
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About this book
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Ruth Hagengruber is a Professor of Philosophy, with special focus on economics and information science and Chair of the Department of Philosophy at Paderborn University, Germany. In 2006, she founded the teaching and research area History of Women Philosophers & Scientists and is Director of the Center History of Women Philosophers & Scientists, founded in 2016. In 2012, she delivered a lecture series at Paderborn University dedicated to the History of Women Philosophers, which is available on YouTube. Ruth Hagengruber also writes on philosophy of technology and economics. She is an honorary member of the International Association for Computing and Philosophy (I-ACAP) and member of the advisory board of the Munich Center for Technology in Society at the TU München. She is head of the German Society of Philosophy working group on research in the history of women philosophers. Her publications include German translations of works by Anne Conway, Emilie Du Châtelet, Marie de Gournay, Olympe de Gouges, Mary Wollstonecraft, and Margret Cavendish in Klassische philosophische Texte von Frauen (1998) and Von Diana zu Minerva (2010), as well as Emilie Du Châtelet und die deutsche Aufklärung, with Hartmut Hecht (2019), Émilie Du Châtelet between Leibniz and Newton (2011), History of Women's Ideas, coedited with Karen Green (The Monist, 2015) and Sebastian Luft, Women in Early Phenomenology on Social Ontology, with Edith Stein, Gerda Walter and Hedwig Conrad Martius (2018). Together with Mary Ellen Waithe, she is Editor-in-Chief of the Springer Series Women in the History of Philosophy and Science.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Methodological Reflections on Women’s Contribution and Influence in the History of Philosophy
Editors: Sigridur Thorgeirsdottir, Ruth Edith Hagengruber
Series Title: Women in the History of Philosophy and Sciences
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-44421-1
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-44420-4Published: 12 July 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-44423-5Published: 12 July 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-44421-1Published: 11 July 2020
Series ISSN: 2523-8760
Series E-ISSN: 2523-8779
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XX, 193
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations, 9 illustrations in colour
Topics: History of Philosophy, History of Science