Women's Perspectives on Ancient and Medieval Philosophy
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| Summary: | XIX, 357 p. 1 illus. text |
| Language: | English |
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Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer,
2021.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2021. |
| Series: | Logic, Argumentation & Reasoning, Interdisciplinary Perspectives from the Humanities and Social Sciences,
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-73190-8 |
| Format: | Electronic eBook |
Table of Contents:
- Part 1. Women Philosophers in Antiquity
- 1. Women Philosophers in Antiquity: Open Questions and Some Results (Maddalena Bonelli)
- 2. Women Philosophers in Antiquity and the Reshaping of Philosophy (Katharine R. O’Reilly)
- Part 2. The Riddles of Cleobulina of Rhodes
- 3. Cleobulina of Rhodes and the Philosophical Power of Riddles (Mariana Gardella Hueso)
- 4. The Riddles of Cleobulina: A Response to Mariana Gardella Hueso’s “Cleobulina of Rhodes and the Philosophical Power of Riddles” (Anna Potamiti)
- Part 3. Women in Plato’s Republic and Statesman
- 5. What Happened to the Philosopher Queens? On the “Disappearance” of Female Rulers in Plato’s Statesman (Annie Larivée)
- 6. Women and Childrearing in the Republic (Emily Fletcher)
- Part 4. Lucretius on Women’s Sexuality
- 7. Sexual Freedom and Feminine Pleasure in Lucretius (Julie Giovacchini)
- 8. An Epicurean Community of Women: A Response to Julie Giovacchini (Natania Meeker)
- Part 5. Bardaisan of Edessa and Alexander of Aphrodisias on Fate, Nature, and Freedom
- 9. Destiny, Nature and Freedom According to Bardaisan and Alexander of Aphrodisias: An Unknown Aspect of the Controversy Against Determinism (Izabela Jurasz)
- 10. How to Limit Fatalism? A Comparison Between Alexander of Aphrodisias and Bardaisan (Isabelle Koch)
- 11. Bardaisan of Edessa on free will, Fate, and Nature: Alexander of Aphrodisias, Origen, and Diodore of Tarsus (Ilaria L. E. Ramelli)
- Part 6. Plotinus and Porphyry on Women
- 12. Plotinus and Porphyry on Women’s Legitimacy in Philosophy (Mathilde Cambron-Goulet and François-Julien Côté-Remy)
- 13. Soul, Gender and Hierarchy in Plotinus and Porphyry: A Response to Mathilde Cambron-Goulet and François-Julien Côté-Remy’s “Plotinus and Porphyry on Women’s Legitimacy in Philosophy” (Jana Schultz)
- 14. Women and Philosophy in Porphyry’s Life of Plotinus (Alexandra Michalewski)
- Part 7. The Concept of Nature in Peter Abelard
- 15. Abelard’s Homo Intelligitur Puzzle: On the Relation Between Universal Understandings and a World of Singulars (Roxane Noël)
- 16. Some Further Remarks on Abelard’s Notion of Nature (Irene Binini)
- Part 8. Robert Kilwardby on Bodily Pain
- 17. Does Bodily Pain have an Intentional Character? Robert Kilwardby’s Answer (Elena Băltuță)
- 18. Scaring Away the Spectre of Equivocation: A Comment (Sonja Schierbaum)
- Part 9. John Buridan and William Ockham on craft
- 19. Is ars an Intellectual Virtue? John Buridan on Craft (Aline Medeiros Ramos)
- 20. William Ockham on Craft: Knowing how to Build Houses on the Canadian Shield (Jenny Pelletier)
- Part 10. Eve’s sin in Isotta Nogarola
- 21. The Fruit of Knowledge: To Bite or not to Bite? Isotta Nogarola on Eve’s sin and its Scholastic Sources (Marcela Borelli, Valeria A. Buffon and Natalia G. Jakubecki)
- 22. Why Eve Matters in the History of Feminist Arguments (Marguerite Deslauriers).