A History of Women Philosophers: Modern Women Philosophers, 1600-1900 / Edition 1

by M.E. Waithe

Overview

edited by Mary Ellen Waithe Series: HISTORY OF WOMEN PHILOSOPHERS volume: 3

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780792309314
Publisher:	Springer Netherlands
Publication date:	10/31/1991
Series:	History of Women Philosophers , #3
Edition description:	1991
Pages:	302
Product dimensions:	6.30(w) x 9.45(h) x 0.24(d)

Table of Contents

1. Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle.- I. Biography.- II. Works.- III. Natural Philosophy.- IV. Feminism.- V. Conclusions.- 2. Kristina Wasa, Queen of Sweden.- I. Biography.- II. Philosophy.- III. Conclusions.- 3. Anne Finch, Viscountess Conway.- I. Biography.- II. Influence on Leibniz.- III. Philosophical Writing.- IV. Summary.- 4. Sor Juana Inés De La Cruz.- I. Biography.- II. Prose Philosophical Works.- III. Philosophical Poetry.- IV. Conclusions.- 5. Damaris Cudworth Masham.- I. Biography.- II. Works.- III. Conclusions.- 6. Mary Astell.- I. Biography.- II. Works.- III. Religious Epistemology and Women.- IV. Epistemology and Religious Knowledge.- V. Conclusions.- 7. Catharine Trotter Cockburn.- I. Biography.- II. Philosophical Writings.- III. Epistemological Foundations of Moral Law.- IV. Epistemological Foundation of Religion.- V. The Immortality of the Soul.- VI. Summary.- VII. Conclusions.- 8. Gabrielle Émilie Le Tonnelier De Breteuil Du Châtelet-Lomont.- I. Biography.- II. Ethics, Religion and Philosophy of Language.- III. Collaborative Works.- IV. Metaphysics.- V. Philosophy of Science.- VI. Conclusions.- 9. Mary Wollstonecraft.- I. Biography.- II. Works.- III. Philosophy.- IV. Conclusions.- 10. Clarisse Coignet.- I. Introduction.- II. Metaethics and Moral Philosophy.- III. Political and Social Philosophy.- IV. Conclusions.- 11. Antoinette Brown Blackwell.- I. Biography.- II. Philosophy.- III. Conclusions.- 12. Julie Velten Favre.- I. Biography.- II. Works.- III. Philosophy.- IV. Conclusions.- 13. Women Philosophers of the Seventeenth, Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries.- I. The Seventeenth Century.- II. The Eighteenth Century.- III. The Nineteenth Century.- IV. Conclusions.