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A History of Women Philosophers pp 209–272Cite as

Women Philosophers of the Seventeenth, Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries

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The preceding chapters explore in some detail modern philosphy’s indebtedness to women. It is appropriate to close this volume with brief descriptions of other women of the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries who were also accomplished philosophers. These are women who were actively engaged in philosophical discourse and/or publishing. Like other philosophers of the period, those mentioned in this chapter were often also scientists, political theorists, social activists, educators, theologians, or professional writers. It was in multi-disciplinary domains that Laura Bassi and Mary Somerville explored the connections between the sciences; that Harriet Martineau and Clemence Royer advocated, respectively, mechanism and substan-tialism; that Harriet Taylor Mill advocated feminism and liber-tarianism; that Hortense Allart de Meritens claimed a common foundation for religion and science; and, that Christine Ladd-Frankin suggested improvements to Boolean algebra and began her analysis of color and visual perception. The contributions of these and other women philosophers of the period can be given only the briefest description here. All merit greater attention than can be given in this volume and all are worthy subjects of further research.

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