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1Brooke A. Ackerly, Political Theory and Feminist Social Criticism Reviewed by (review)Philosophy in Review 22 (1): 1-3. 2002.
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1Will the real Enlightenment historian please stand up? Catharine Macaulay versus David HumeIn Stephen Buckle Craig Taylor (ed.), Hume and the Enlightenment, Pickering & Chatto. 2011.Argues that on an interpretation of the Enlightenment which emphasises its radical potential and importance for the development of democracy Catharine Macaulay should be recognised as a more centrally Enlightenment historian than David Hume.
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1Jo-Anne Pilardi, Simone de Beauvoir Writing the Self: Philosophy Becomes Autobiography Reviewed by (review)Philosophy in Review 20 (1): 21-26. 2000.
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The Expanding Blaze. How the American Revolution Ignited the World, 1775–1848 (review)Redescriptions 22. 2019.
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Isolated individual or member of a Feminine Courtly Community? Christine de Pizan’s milieuIn Constant J. Mews & Crossley John (eds.), Communities of Learning: Networks and the Shaping of Intellectual Identity in Europe 1100-1500, Brepols Publishers. 2011.
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An eco-centric proposal for setting a price on greenhouse gas emissionsIn Brian Henning & Zack Walsh (eds.), Climate Change Ethics and the Non-human World. 2020.Argues for the justice of a land based allocation of rights to emit carbon dioxide on the basis of the fact that this would involve recognizing duties to land and would in fact be more fair and workable than proposals based on per-capita allocations.
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Louise Keralio-Robert, Virtue, Feminism, and the Problem of FanaticismEarly Modern French Studies 43 (1). 2021.Louise Keralio-Robert began publishing translations, novels, history, and a collection of women’s works in the decade prior to the French Revolution. She was a republican journalist during its initial stages and then, after a period of obscurity, returned to publishing translations and novels at the end of the first decade of the nineteenth century. This article offers an overview of the works produced during these three periods of her literary endeavour and defends her against the charge of hav…Read more
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Catharine Macaulay as Critic of HumeIn Geoff Boucher & Henry Martyn Lloyd (eds.), Rethinking the Enlightenment, . pp. 113-130. 2018.Catharine Macaulay’s The History of England challenges Hume’s interpretation of the history of the Stuarts, as developed in his The History of Great Britain, and is grounded in meta-ethical, religious, and political principles that are also fundamentally opposed to those developed by Hume, as she makes clear in her Treatise on the Immutabilty of Moral Truth. Here it is argued that the contrast between them poses a problem for a number of recent accounts of the enlightenment period, and that Maca…Read more
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The Miroir des Dames, the Chapelet des Vertus, and Christine de Pizan’s sourcesIn Clare Monagle (ed.), Intellectual Dynamism in the High Middle Ages. 2021.Examines the relationship between the Chapelet des vertues which has been claimed to be a source for Christine de Pizan's Epistre Othea and argues that the direction of influence was in the other direction.
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The Defence of Women 1400-1700In Sandrine Berges & Alan M. S. Coffee (eds.), The Wollstonecraftian Mind. 2019.Traces women's defence of their moral and spiritual equality with men, from the works of Christine de Pizan, through Marguerite of Navarre, Madeleine de Scudéry, Arcangela Tarabotti, to Mary Astell and Mary Wollstonecraft, arguing that although she appears not to have been aware of these precursors, the arguments they developed paved the way for her feminism.
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From Le Miroir des dames to Le Livre des trois vertusIn Karen Green & Mews Constant J. (eds.), Virtue Ethics for Women 1250-1550, Springer. 2011.
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Brooke A. Ackerly, Political Theory and Feminist Social Criticism (review)Philosophy in Review 22 1-3. 2002.
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What Were the Ladies in the City of Ladies Reading? The Libraries of Christine de Pizan’s ContemporariesMedievalia Et Humanistica 36 77-100. 2010.
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Germaine de Staël and the Politics of TasteIn Karl Axelsson, Camilla Flodin & Mattias Pirholt (eds.), Beyond Autonomy in Eighteenth-Century British and German Aesthetics, Routledge. 2020.At first glance, Germaine de Staël and Immanuel Kant evince strikingly different attitudes to aesthetic judgment. Yet she promoted Kant's aesthetics and philosophy. This paper examines both Staël's early literary works and her later De l'Allemagne in order to tease out the relationship between their aesthetic theories.
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Areas of Specialization
Philosophy of Language |
Medieval and Renaissance Philosophy |
17th/18th Century Philosophy |
Continental Philosophy |