Feminist Reflections on the History of Philosophy

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xvii

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2. Feminist History of Philosophy

   • Charlotte Witt

   Pages 1-15

3. Identity and Gender in Plato

   • Kristin Sampson

   Pages 17-32

4. Schemes and Scenes of Reading the Timaeus

   • Cynthia A. Freeland

   Pages 33-49

5. Nietzsche’s Feminization of Metaphysics and Its Significance for Theories of Gender Difference

   • Sigridur Thorgeirsdottir

   Pages 51-68

6. Psychologizing Cartesian Doubt Feminist Reading Strategies and the “Unthought” of Philosophy

   • Martina Reuter

   Pages 69-100

7. Feminist Rationality Debates Rereading Kant

   • Robin May Schott

   Pages 101-115

8. Form, Normativity and Gender in Aristotle A Feminist Perspective

   • Charlotte Witt

   Pages 117-136

9. The Soul-Body Union and Sexual Difference from Descartes to Merleau-Ponty and Beauvoir

   • Sara Heinämaa

   Pages 137-151

10. The Psychology of Philosophy Interpreting Locke and Hume

    • Anne J. Jacobson

    Pages 153-170

11. Hume as Man of Reason and Woman’s Philosopher

    • Don Garrett

    Pages 171-192

12. Descartes and Elisabeth A Philosophical Dialogue?

    • Lilli Alanen

    Pages 193-218

13. Some Thoughts on the Place of Women in Early Modern Philosophy

    • Lisa Shapiro

    Pages 219-250

14. Back Matter

    Pages 251-253

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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 feminist work in the history of philosophy? Is there a method that is distinctive of feminist historical work? How can women philosophers be meaningfully included in the history of the discipline? Who counts as a philosopher?
This collection is a unique collaboration among philosophers from North America and the Nordic Countries, including papers written from both analytic and continental philosophical perspectives and discussing both ancient and modern philosophers. Feminist Reflections on the History of Philosophy will be of interest to historians of philosophy, feminist theorists, women's studies faculty and students, and humanists interested in canon formation and transformation.

• Aristotle
• Friedrich Nietzsche
• Immanuel Kant
• Nietzsche
• Plato
• René Descartes
• history of philosophy
• metaphysics
• philosophy

• University of Uppsala, Sweden

  Lilli Alanen

• University of New Hampshire, Durham, USA

  Charlotte Witt

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