Women's Perspectives on Ancient and Medieval Philosophy

This book promotes the research of present-day women working in ancient and medieval philosophy, with more than 60 women having contributed in some way to the volume in a fruitful collaboration. It contains 22 papers organized into ten distinct parts spanning the sixth century BCE to the fifteenth century CE.Each part has the same structure: it features, first, a paper which sets up the discussion, and then, one or two responses that open new perspectives and engage in further reflections. Our authors' contributions address pivotal moments and players in the history of philosophy: women philosophers in antiquity, Cleobulina of Rhodes, Plato, Lucretius, Bardaisan of Edessa, Alexander of Aphrodisias, Plotinus, Porphyry, Peter Abelard, Robert Kilwardby, William Ockham, John Buridan, and Isotta Nogarola. The result is a thought-provoking collection of papers that will be of interest to historians of philosophy from all horizons. Far from being an isolated effort, this book is a contribution to the ever-growing number of initiatives which endeavour to showcase the work of women in philosophy.

Auteur

Isabelle Chouinard is a PhD candidate in philosophy at the Université de Montréal and the Centre Léon Robin (Sorbonne Université) under the joint supervision of Louis-André Dorion and Jean-Baptiste Gourinat. Her dissertation examines the Stoic reception of ancient Cynicism. Her main areas of research include Socratic and Hellenistic schools of philosophy, especially Cynicism, Cyrenaic hedonism and Stoicism. She teaches ancient Greek at the Université de Montréal.

Zoe McConaugheyisagrégée in philosophy; PhD student at the Université de Lille (France) and the Université du Québec à Montréal (Canada), she will defend in 2021 her dissertation entitled Aristotle. Science and the dialectician's activity. Her research deals with history and philosophy of logic, thus encompassing both historical issues, especially Aristotelian logic and epistemology, andlogical issues, in particular dialogical logic. She is co-author ofImmanent Reasoning or Equality in Action(Springer, 2018), with Shahid Rahman, Ansten Klev and Nicolas Clerbout.

Aline Medeiros Ramos is an instructor (chargée de cours) in philosophy at the Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières, in Canada. She is also a PhD candidate in philosophy at the Université du Québec à Montréal, currently writing her dissertation under the supervision of Claude Panaccio on the intellectual virtues according to John Buridan. In addition to specializing in medieval philosophy focusing on the late Middle Ages, she is also generally interested in ethics and, in particular, virtue theory.

Roxane Noël is a Gates scholar currently writing her PhD thesis at the University of Cambridge under the supervision of John Marenbon. She specializes in medieval philosophy, with a special focus on the twelfth century. Her M.A. thesis, titled Understanding universals in Abelard's Tractatus de intellectibus: The notion of 'nature', was written under the supervision of Jack Zupko, at the University of Alberta, with support from SSHRC and FRQSC.

Contenu

· Introduction

Part I Feminine Perspectives in Ancient Philosophy

· Maddalena Bonelli , 'Women philosophers in Antiquity: a History of Exclusion and Devaluation'

· Response to Bonelli

· Mariana Gardella, 'Hide and Reveal: Cleobuline of Lindos and the Philosophical Power of Riddles'

· Response to Gardella

· Emese Mogyorodi, 'Immateriality and the Feminine in Parmenides'

· Response to Mogyorodi

· Laurence Godin-Tremblay, 'Dialectical Refutations of the Eleatics'

· Response to Godin-Tremblay

· Mathilde Brémond, 'Dialectic and First Principles in Aristotle: The Case of Physics I.2-3' · Response to Brémond

· Annie Larivée, 'Where Have the Philosopher-Queens Gone? On the 'Disappearance' of the Female Rulers in Plato's Stateman'

· Response to Larivée

· Yu-Jung Sun, 'How can we teach truth through fake stories: the usage of myth in Plato's dialogues'

· Response to Sun

· Vanessa Arviset, 'Memory as a moral quality in Aristotle'

· Response to Arvisset

· Isabelle Chouinard, 'Anticipating the Worst: A Cyrenaic Technique to Increase Pleasure'

· Response to Chouinard

· Julie Giovacchini, 'Sexual Freedom and Feminine Pleasure in Lucretius: Politics of Sexuality'

· Response to Giovacchini

· Anna-Christine Corbeil, 'Myth and Time in Plotinus' Third Ennead'

· Response to Corbeil

· Mathilde Cambron-Goulet (and François-Julien Côté-Rémy), 'Neoplatonic Perspectives on Female Philosophers'

· Response to Cambron-Goulet

· Izabela Jurasz, 'Bardaisan, a Syriac Philosopher'

· Response to Jurasz

Part II Feminine Perspectives in Medieval Philosophy

· Valeria Buffon, Marcela Borelli et Natalia Jakubecki, 'Isotta Nogarola on Original Sin: Vehementem disertamque Evae patronam: The devil's advocate?'

· Response to Buffon, Borelli and Jakubecki · **Roxane ...