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This chapter provides the background to the American women philosophers’ works that are introduced and collected in Knowledge, Mind and Reality: An Introduction by Early Twentieth-Century American Women Philosophers. We describe the institutional context which made these works possible and their methodological and theoretical background. We also provide biographies for their authors.
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The Australasian Philosophical Review edition includes articles on Grace Andrus de Laguna, co-curated by Krist Vaesen and Dorothy Rogers https://aap.org.au/APR; the Springer series is Women in the History of Philosophy and Sciences, edited by Marie Ellen Waithe, Ruth Hagengruber, and Gianni Paganini https://www.springer.com/series/15896; the Oxford handbooks include Lydia Moland and Alison Stone’s edited collection (2021) on nineteenth-century American and British women philosophers, and Kristin Gjesdal and Dalia Nassar’s edited collection (2021) on nineteenth-century women philosophers in the German tradition; the series of articles on women in the history of philosophy is published by The Journal of the American Philosophical Association https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-the-american-philosophical-association/women-in-the-history-of-philosophy; the new journal is Journal of the History of Women Philosophers and Scientists (Brill) https://brill.com/view/journals/jhwp/jhwp-overview.xml.
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See also Rogers (2020).
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Katzav, J., Rogers, D., Vaesen, K. (2023). American Women Philosophers: Institutions, Background and Thought. In: Katzav, J., Vaesen, K., Rogers, D. (eds) Knowledge, Mind and Reality: An Introduction by Early Twentieth-Century American Women Philosophers. Women in the History of Philosophy and Sciences, vol 18. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-24437-7_1
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