Women Writing Natural Philosophy in Early Modern Europe: Spaces and Exchanges University of Exeter, UK 2-4 June 2025 The Cultures of Philosophy project at the University of Exeter in the UK invites proposals for our first conference, ‘Women Writing Natural Philosophy in ..read more

La philosophie de Marguerite Porete – Appel de textes Numéro thématique de la revue Philosophiques, printemps 2025 De Marguerite Porete ne nous est parvenu qu’un seul ouvrage, Le miroir des âmes simples et anéanties et qui seulement demeurent en vouloir et désir ..read more

Locke Studies is pleased to announce that its twenty-fifth issue, to be published in 2025, will include a special section devoted to three of Locke’s most important interlocutors and critics: Mary Astell (1666-1731), Catharine Trotter Cockburn (1679-1749), and Damaris Cudworth Masham (1659-1708). The special section will include invited articles by Ruth Boeker, Jacqueline Broad, and Sarah Hutton alongside several articles chosen through this open call. Submissions are encouraged from scholars working in Philosophy, Political Science, History, Gender Studies, Literature, or any other field ..read more

ENN Knowledge Mobilization Specialist 2024.pdfDownload ..read more

From the organiser Alison Stone: The online series of talks on 19th-century women philosophers from the last few weeks is now available to view from here. For anyone who missed them at the time and wants to catch up ..read more

Sophie Smith reviewed the following two books in the latest issue of LRB (Vol. 46 No. 8 · 25 April 2024): How to Think like a Woman: Four Women Philosophers Who Taught Me How to Love the Life of the Mind by  Regan Penaluna. The Routledge Handbook of Women and Early Modern European Philosophy edited by Karen Detlefsen and Lisa Shapiro. Here is her review ..read more

Workshop: “The Cavendish Circle: Philosophical Networks in the 17th Century” 30 April 2024 Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Department of Philosophy and Cultural Heritage Papers presented in the workshop investigate ways in which philosophical and scientific ideas were discussed and circulated through the mediation and within the context of the so-called “Cavendish Circle” during the 1640s. By gathering five expert contributors, this event aims to shed light on a vibrant intellectual context, which was seminal for the advancement of the ideas of pivotal thinkers in the history of European ph ..read more

I know it’s March already, but please help yourselves to an updated 2024 Calendar with pictures of French Revolutionary women to celebrate Women’s History Month. I made it last year to mark the publication of my book Liberty in Their Names. Liberty In Their Names – 2024.pdfDownload You can find lots of stories from my research for that book on this blog: Liberty in Thy Name. My new work-in-progress book The Home: a Philosophical project (working title) also has a blog with posts about women’s history. I’m sharing the latest one about why it’s important to get the history of the private and pub ..read more

In the Letters on Sympathy (1798) Sophie de Grouchy argues that the way to reduce injustice is to make it the case that ‘laws no longer support wealth inequality’ (134). She suggests that a fair distribution of the resources a country like France in the 18th century has to offer, even accounting for a degree of ‘natural inequality’, even the poorest members of society would be well-off, owing on average ‘two or three acres of crop’ which corresponds to ‘fifty livres’ (134).  Aside from the abolition of poverty, which is one of the main causes of crime, she says, reducing th ..read more

Women and Epistemic Emotions in the Early Modern PeriodMcMaster University McMaster University 25-27 October 2024 Submission deadline: 30 March 2024 Notification of acceptance: 6 April 2024 This workshop highlights the subject of women and epistemic emotions – emotions which either aid us in knowing or are themselves instances of knowledge – in the early modern period. Paradigm examples of epistemic emotions include doubt and curiosity, though other emotions such as love or fear may also play important epistemic roles. Thus, an epistemic emotion is one that plays a causal role in dri ..read more