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SUMMARY:Research Colloquium - Minji Lee:  The Medieval Womb - Hildegard of Bingen’s Views on the Female Reproductive Body
DESCRIPTION:Minji Lee will present her newly published book The Medieval Womb: Hildegard of Bingen’s views on the female reproductive body. as part of the regular Research Colloquium at the Center for the History of Women Philosophers and Scientists. \nLee\, M. (2025). The Medieval Womb: Hildegard of Bingen’s views on the female reproductive body. Arc Humanities Press. \nThis study of the twelfth-century German abbess Hildegard of Bingen examines her understanding of the womb through her medical work Cause et cure and visionary work Scivias. Medieval tradition viewed female bodies negatively\, seeing their porous nature as easily polluted. Women were considered weaker and more vulnerable to spiritual invasion. This volume shows how Hildegard’s revolutionary understanding of the female reproductive body reversed these assumptions. She connected female bodily flows not to pollution but to purification\, presenting menstruation and reproductive fluids as vital components in natural cleansing and healing processes. The book concludes with a chapter showing how Hildegard’s concept of beneficial bodily flow remains relevant in modern Western and non-Western alternative medicine\, in which female bodily porosity and fluid exchange continue to be understood as sources of regenerative power. \nMinji Lee is Assistant Professor of Religion and Medical Humanities at Montclair State University\, New Jersey. She holds a PhD from Rice University\, and specializes in medicine in relation to cultural practices\, women’s health\, and reproductive issues. \nEverybody is welcome to attend! \nThe talk will start at 4 pm. \nRoom: TP8.1.46 \nBuilding: Technologiepark 8 \nAdress: Technologiepark 8\, 33098 Paderborn \n  \nOr via Zoom: https://uni-paderborn-de.zoom-x.de/j/69114807044?pwd=V7I83cOcvWR1001l4FbcVdywNR2zFF.1
URL:https://historyofwomenphilosophers.org/event/research-colloquium-minji-lee-the-medieval-womb-hildegard-of-bingens-views-on-the-female-reproductive-body/
LOCATION:Technologiepark 8\, Technologiepark 8\, Paderborn\, 33098\, Germany
CATEGORIES:Colloquium,Talk
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SUMMARY:Research Colloquium - Pietro Gori: Mary B. Hesse’s contribution to the history and philosophy of science
DESCRIPTION:[Further information about the talk will follow.] \nDr. Pietro Gori is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy at NOVA University Lisbon\, where he is in charge of the chairs in Philosophy of Science and Philosophy of Knowledge. Integrated member of the NOVA Institute of Philosophy since 2012\, he is also the coordinator of the “Lisbon Nietzsche Group” at IFILNOVA. The main areas of his academic activity are Modern and Contemporary Western Philosophy\, History and Philosophy of Science\, Epistemology\, and Philosophical Anthropology. In this context\, Gori has particularly devoted his research to representatives of an anti-foundationalist shift in philosophy\, with a specific interest in the works of Friedrich Nietzsche\, William James\, and Ernst Mach. Since 2021\, his research has also been centered on the work of the British philosopher of science Mary B. Hesse and her post-empiricist approach. \nThe Talk is part of the regular research colloquium held at the Center for the History of Women Philosophers and Scientists. The research colloquium is organised by the Center for the History of Women Philosophers and Scientists. \nEverybody is welcome to attend! \nThe talk will start at 4 pm. \nRoom: TP8.1.46 \nBuilding: Technologiepark 8 \nAdress: Technologiepark 8\, 33098 Paderborn \n  \nOr via Zoom: https://uni-paderborn-de.zoom-x.de/j/68025505662?pwd=iu11BXoHRCtxeWwwueasYhQzPaSJqD.1
URL:https://historyofwomenphilosophers.org/event/new-voices-pietro-gori-on-mary-b-hesses-contribution-to-the-history-and-philosophy-of-science/
LOCATION:Technologiepark 8\, Technologiepark 8\, Paderborn\, 33098\, Germany
CATEGORIES:Colloquium,Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20260119T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20260119T180000
DTSTAMP:20260404T051538
CREATED:20260112T140446Z
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SUMMARY:Research Colloquium - Patricia Grill: Olga Hahn-Neurath im Kontext des Neurath-Kreises / des Wiener Kreises
DESCRIPTION:Olga Hahn zwischen Zugehörigkeit und Ausschluss \nVorgestellt wird ein Ausschnitt aus einem laufenden Dissertationsprojekt\, der der Sichtbarmachung der Philosophin Olga Hahn gewidmet ist. Hahn gehörte zu den wenigen weiblichen Mitgliedern des Wiener Kreises und promovierte 1911 als erst dritte Frau im Fach Philosophie an der Universität Wien. Dennoch ist ihre eigene philosophische Stimme in der Forschung weitgehend in den Hintergrund getreten.\nAusgehend von biografischen Quellen und späteren Erinnerungen soll in diesem Vortrag gezeigt werden\, dass Hahn zwar hohe intellektuelle Anerkennung genoss\, institutionell jedoch nur begrenzt verankert war. Im Zentrum steht die Frage\, wie sich diese ambivalente Position – im Diskurs präsent\, aber kaum dokumentiert – erklären lässt und welche epistemischen wie sozialen Bedingungen dazu beigetragen haben\, dass ihr Denken nur fragmentarisch überliefert ist.\nZiel ist es\, Olga Hahn als eigenständige Akteurin der frühen Wissenschafts- und Ideengeschichte sichtbar zu machen und zugleich die strukturellen Grenzen philosophischer Überlieferung kritisch zu reflektieren. \nDer Vortrag ist Teil des regulären Research Colloquiums des Center for the History of Women Philosophers and Scientists. Das Research Colloquium wird vom Center for the History of Women Philosophers and Scientists organisiert. \nAlle Interessierten sind herzlich willkommen! \nDer Vortrag beginnt um 16:00 Uhr. \nRaum: TP8.1.46 \nGebäude: Technologiepark 8 \nAdresse: Technologiepark 8\, 33098 Paderborn
URL:https://historyofwomenphilosophers.org/event/research-colloquium-patricia-grill-on-olga-hahn-neurath-in-the-context-of-the-neurath-circle-vienna-circle/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20251110T160000
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SUMMARY:Research Colloquium - Sebastian Luft: Toward an Ontology of Social Communities - With an Appendix on the Phenomenology of Social Communities
DESCRIPTION:Prof. Dr. Sebastian Luft will present his and Rodney K. B. Parker’s newly published book Gerda Walther. Toward an Ontology of Social Communities (De Gruyter\, 2025) as part of the regular Research Colloquium at the Center for the History of Women Philosophers and Scientists. \nLuft\, S. & Parker\, R. (2025). Gerda Walther. Toward an Ontology of Social Communities: With an Appendix on the Phenomenology of Social Communities. De Gruyter. \nAbstract: \nThis is the first full-text English translation of a seminal book within the phenomenological movement. \nThe work was orginally published in 1922 in Edmund Husserl’s yearbook Jahrbuch für Philosophie und phänomenologische Forschung\, and has had a wide impact on work in phenomenology (Husserl\, Heideger\, Stein) and social ontology. Gerda Walther broaches the topic of social ontology\, i.e.\, a study of social communities. She carries out this task by using the phenomenological method\, that is\, a study of the first-person (both singular and plural) experience of being a part of a community\, what it feels like internally (and its constitutive elements)\, how it relates to other individuals or other communities\, and how unifications between individiuals and communities or between communities take place. \nThe book is an important contribution to the phenomenology of intersubjectivity or the study of social ontology. Social ontology has been an important and fruitful field of research in contemporary social theory\, cognitive science\, and other disciplines. It will be a crucial contribution to current research. \n\n\n\nPioneering study of the nature of the social world\nAuthor was student of Edmund Husserl\nImportant work of early phenomenology\n\n  \nAbout the translators: \nSebastian Luft is Professor of Philosophy at Paderborn University\, Germany. Rodney K.B. Parker is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at King’s University College\, Western University\, Ontario\, Canada. \n\n  \nEverybody is welcome to attend! \nThe talk will start at 4 pm. \nRoom: TP8.1.46 \nBuilding: Technologiepark 8 \nAdress: Technologiepark 8\, 33098 Paderborn
URL:https://historyofwomenphilosophers.org/event/research-colloquium-sebastian-luft-insights-into-the-research-of-women-philosophers-and-ecotechgender/
LOCATION:Technologiepark 8\, Technologiepark 8\, Paderborn\, 33098\, Germany
CATEGORIES:Colloquium,Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20251103T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20251103T180000
DTSTAMP:20260404T051538
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SUMMARY:Research Colloquium - Laura E. Herrera Castillo: Beyond Passive Reception: Liselotte von der Pfalz and G.W. Leibniz on F.M. van Helmont
DESCRIPTION:While the historiography of philosophy has increasingly integrated marginalized figures\, the philosophical exchanges between Leibniz and his female correspondents remain understudied. Beyond well-known exchanges with figures like Lady Damaris Masham and Caroline of Ansbach (within the Clarke-Dispute)\, significant correspondences still await scholarly attention. This paper examines a rich thread in Leibniz’s correspondence with Sophie of Hannover\, focusing on the critical intervention of Elisabeth Charlotte (Liselotte) von der Pfalz\, whose challenges prompted an exchange on the thought of Francis Mercury van Helmont. As the first study\, to my knowledge\, dedicated to this episode and to treating Liselotte’s letters as philosophical documents\, its primary aim is to present and analyze this correspondence. Through this analysis\, the study seeks to elucidate Liselotte’s distinct philosophical attitude and\, to a lesser extent\, Sophie’s. Ultimately\, this microhistory addresses a broader meta-philosophical question: What does this episode reveal about early modern intellectual networks and the strategies women used to engage in philosophical discourse from the margins of official academic life? \nDr. Laura Herrera Castillo currently serves as the Deputy Director of the Leibniz-Forschungsstelle in Münster and teaches as an adjunct lecturer (Lehrbeauftragte) in Philosophy at the University of Münster. Originally from Colombia\, she earned her doctorate on Philosophy in Granada\, Spain\, with a thesis on Leibniz’s concept of function across his mathematics\, physics\, and metaphysics. She has conducted research at the universities of Münster and Hannover and has held a visiting professorship at LMU Munich.E-Mail: laura.herreracastillo@uni-muenster.de \nThe Talk is part of the regular research colloquium held at the Center for the History of Women Philosophers and Scientists. \nEverybody is welcome to attend! \nThe talk will start at 4 pm. \nRoom: TP8.1.46 \nBuilding: Technologiepark 8 \nAdress: Technologiepark 8\, 33098 Paderborn
URL:https://historyofwomenphilosophers.org/event/research-colloquium-laura-castillo-insights-into-the-research-of-women-philosophers-and-ecotechgender/
LOCATION:Technologiepark 8\, Technologiepark 8\, Paderborn\, 33098\, Germany
CATEGORIES:Colloquium,Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20251020T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20251020T180000
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CREATED:20251013T130439Z
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SUMMARY:Research Colloquium - Dr. Pierpaolo Betti: Atomism and Monadism Combined: Continuities between Du Châtelet’s and Kant’s Accounts of Matter
DESCRIPTION:Abstract: Most scholars emphasize the discontinuity in Kant’s early accounts of matter\, reinforcing the longstanding view that the young Kant explored various positions without committing to a specific one. More specifically\, commentators tend to read the shift from atomism to monadism or\, conversely\, from monadism to atomism\, as a turning point in Kant’s pre-critical account of matter. I challenge these readings by arguing that the young Kant did not conceive of atomism and monadism as mutually exclusive alternatives. Rather\, he developed an account of matter that combined monadism in metaphysics and a version of atomism known as corpuscularism in physics. I further show that\, prior to Kant\, Du Châtelet had already articulated such a hybrid account of matter by drawing on Wolffian ideas. By comparing Du Châtelet’s Institutions de physique with Kant’s early texts on natural philosophy\, I suggest that Du Châtelet’s views may have influenced Kant’s early account of matter more significantly than has generally been acknowledged in the literature. \nPierpaolo Betti obtained his PhD from KU Leuven in 2025. His doctoral research focused on the evolution of the concept of monad in Kant’s philosophy in light of the early reception of Leibniz’s monadology. As of November\, he will be a postdoctoral researcher at the Center for the History of Women Philosophers and Scientists at Paderborn University\, where he will contribute to the historical-critical edition of Du Châtelet’s Institutions de physique. His publications include “Kant’s Mature Account of Monads as Objects in the Idea” (The Southern Journal of Philosophy\, 2024) and “The Influence of Leibniz’s New Essays on Kant’s Account of Impenetrability in the Metaphysical Foundations of Natural Science” (book chapter in Leibniz in der klassischendeutschen Philosophie\, edited by Gregor Schäfer. Springer/Metzler\, forthcoming). \nThe Talk is part of the regular research colloquium held at the Center for the History of Women Philosophers and Scientists. The research colloquium is organised by the Center for the History of Women Philosophers and Scientists. \nEverybody is welcome to attend! \nThe talk will start at 4 pm. \nRoom: TP8.1.46 \nBuilding: Technologiepark 8 \nAdress: Technologiepark 8\, 33098 Paderborn
URL:https://historyofwomenphilosophers.org/event/research-colloquium-dr-pierpaolo-betti-atomism-and-monadism-combined-continuities-between-du-chatelets-and-kants-accounts-of-matter/
LOCATION:Technologiepark 8\, Technologiepark 8\, Paderborn\, 33098\, Germany
CATEGORIES:Colloquium,Talk
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DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20251013T180000
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CREATED:20251007T122101Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251031T151341Z
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SUMMARY:Research Colloquium- Dr. Manaswini Sen: From Practice to Philosophy: Trade Unionism\, Communism\, and Feminist Intellectual History in Late Colonial Bengal.
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Manaswini Sen will introduce us into her research on Trade Unionism\, Communism and Feminist Intellectual History in late colonial Bengal. \nShe is an Assistant Professor of Modern South Asian History at the Department of History\, Easwari School of Liberal Arts\, SRM University Ap (India). Her research interests lie within the fields of Labour History\, the History of Decolonisation in South Asia\, Intellectual History\, the History of Surveillance\, and the History of Communism in the Global South. \nThe Talk is part of the regular research colloquium held at the Center for the History of Women Philosophers and Scientists. The research colloquium is organised by the Center for the History of Women Philosophers and Scientists. \nEverybody is welcome to attend! \nThe talk will start at 4 pm. \nRoom: TP8.1.46 \nBuilding: Technologiepark 8 \nAdress: Technologiepark 8\, 33098 Paderborn
URL:https://historyofwomenphilosophers.org/event/research-colloquium-dr-manaswini-sen-from-practice-to-philosophy-trade-unionism-communism-and-feminist-intellectual-history-in-late-colonial-bengal/
LOCATION:Technologiepark 8\, Technologiepark 8\, Paderborn\, 33098\, Germany
CATEGORIES:Colloquium,Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20250630T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20250630T180000
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CREATED:20250325T093126Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250512T154944Z
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SUMMARY:Research Colloquium - Dr. Jil Muller: Holistic Philosophical Anthropology
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Jil Muller\, Deputy Director of The Center for the History of Women Philosophers and Scientists\, will introduce us into her research on Holistic Philosophical Anthropology. \nThe talk is part of the regular research colloquium held at the Center for the History of Women Philosophers and Scientists. The research colloquium is organized by Prof. Dr. Ruth E. Hagengruber. \nThe talk will start at 4 pm. \nEverybody is welcome to attend. \nRoom: TP8.1.46\nBuilding Technologiepark 8\nAdress: Technologiepark 8\, 33098 Paderborn\, Germany \n 
URL:https://historyofwomenphilosophers.org/event/research-colloquium-dr-jil-muller-holistic-philosophical-anthropology/
LOCATION:Technologiepark 8\, Technologiepark 8\, Paderborn\, 33098\, Germany
CATEGORIES:Colloquium,Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20250616T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20250616T180000
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CREATED:20250331T085858Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250428T121952Z
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SUMMARY:Research Colloquium – Dr. Dr. Luka Borsic: The Proto-Radical Feminism in 16th Century Dubrovnik: The Strange Case of Maruša Gundulić and Cvijeta Zuzorić
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Dr. Luka Boršić\, Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for Philosophy Zagreb (Croatia)\, will introduce us into hisresearch on Radical Feminism in 16th Century Dubrovnik: The Strange Case of Maruša Gundulić and Cvijeta Zuzorić. \nThe talk is part of the regular research colloquium held at the Center for the History of Women Philosophers and Scientists. The research colloquium is organized by Prof. Dr. Ruth E. Hagengruber. \nThe talk will start at 4 pm. \nEverybody is welcome to attend. \nRoom: TP8.1.46\nBuilding Technologiepark 8\nAdress: Technologiepark 8\, 33098 Paderborn\, Germany
URL:https://historyofwomenphilosophers.org/event/research-colloquium-dr-dr-luka-borsic-the-proto-radical-feminism-in-16th-century-dubrovnik-the-strange-case-of-marusa-gundulic-and-cvijeta-zuzoric/
LOCATION:Technologiepark 8\, Technologiepark 8\, Paderborn\, 33098\, Germany
CATEGORIES:Colloquium,Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20250602T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20250602T180000
DTSTAMP:20260404T051538
CREATED:20250325T095610Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250428T122051Z
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SUMMARY:Research Colloquium – Felix Grewe: Innovating Knowledge for the Future: Haraway's Storytelling from Cyborg to Companion Species
DESCRIPTION:Felix Grewe\, Research Fellow and Doctoral Student at the Center for the History of Women Philosophers and Scientists\, will introduce us into his research on Donna J. Haraway and her concepts of Storytelling. The talk Innovating Knowledge for the Future: Haraway’s Storytelling from Cyborg to Companion Species will give an introduction into the genesis of her innovative concepts of knowledge (re-)production including her concepts from the cyborg up to the more recent concept of companion species. \nThe talk is part of the regular research colloquium held at the Center for the History of Women Philosophers and Scientists. The research colloquium is organized by Prof. Dr. Ruth E. Hagengruber. \nThe talk will start at 4 pm. \nEverybody is welcome to attend. \nRoom: TP8.1.46\nBuilding Technologiepark 8\nAdress: Technologiepark 8\, 33098 Paderborn\, Germany
URL:https://historyofwomenphilosophers.org/event/research-colloquium-felix-grewe-innovating-knowledge-for-the-future-haraways-storytelling-from-cyborg-to-companion-species/
LOCATION:Technologiepark 8\, Technologiepark 8\, Paderborn\, 33098\, Germany
CATEGORIES:Colloquium,Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20250529T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20250529T180000
DTSTAMP:20260404T051538
CREATED:20250121T133122Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250121T133135Z
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SUMMARY:New Voices Women's Ideas in the History of Medicine
DESCRIPTION:Martina Guzzetti: Pregnant Women’s Wellbeing in Jane Sharp’s “The Midwives’ Book” (1671) \n\n\n\n\n\nWomen’s health\, wellbeing\, and medical conditions have always been at the centre of gendered debates concerning\, among other things\, who has the necessary knowledge and authority to discuss and provide advice about them. Of the many branches of medicine involved in these debates\, midwifery certainly holds a prominent position: in particular\, between the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries\, these controversies saw the rivalry between midwives and the emerging men-midwives encapsulated in their own publications. While men’s textbooks on midwifery were limited to the description of women’s anatomy and the discussion of the birth event itself (without taking into consideration what happened to women before\, during\, and after pregnancy)\, the midwives’ manuals offered a different point of view\, \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nthat is\, one of a skilled practitioner (despite the misogynist stereotypes) who could also share with her patients the same experience\, thus having access to a kind of knowledge which went beyond the purely technical one. This contribution deals in particular with Jane Sharp’s The Midwives’ Book (1671) and offers to focus precisely on an aspect often overlooked in men’s textbooks\, that is\, pregnant women’s wellbeing\, be it physical and/or mental. The analysis considers the creation of discourses related\, for example\, to factors helping the conception of a child\, to easing labour\, and to preventing diseases after childbirth. In the discussion\, particular attention will be devoted to the peculiar connection between midwives and pregnant women\, and to the references to professional and private experience used to back up such knowledge. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n  \nAbout the Speaker…\n \n\n\n\n\nMartina Guzzetti is a Post-Doctoral Researcher and Lecturer of English Language and Linguistics at the University of Insubria and the University of Milan. Her research is based around language and gender studies in historical perspective\, with a focus on news discourse\, lexicography\, and the popularisation of medical knowledge. She is currently working on a project about pregnant women’s wellbeing in midwifery manuals and domestic dictionaries. \n\n  \nEveryone is welcome to attend. Please register here and you will get the Zoom-Link after registration.
URL:https://historyofwomenphilosophers.org/event/new-voices-womens-ideas-in-the-history-of-medicine-6/
CATEGORIES:Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20250519T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20250519T180000
DTSTAMP:20260404T051538
CREATED:20250414T142612Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250428T122113Z
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SUMMARY:Research Colloquium - Dr. Andrea Reichenberger - Grete Hermann: From Quantum Physics to Politics and Ethics
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Andrea Reichenberger\, research group leader at the Department of Mathematics at the University of Siegen\, will introduce us into her research on Grete Hermann: From Quantum Physics to Politics and Ethics. \nThe talk is part of the regular research colloquium held at the Center for the History of Women Philosophers and Scientists. The research colloquium is organized by Prof. Dr. Ruth E. Hagengruber. \nThe talk will start at 4 pm. \nEverybody is welcome to attend. \nRoom: TP8.1.46\nBuilding Technologiepark 8\nAdress: Technologiepark 8\, 33098 Paderborn\, Germany
URL:https://historyofwomenphilosophers.org/event/research-colloquium-dr-andrea-reichenberger-grete-hermann-from-quantum-physics-to-politics-and-ethics/
LOCATION:Technologiepark 8\, Technologiepark 8\, Paderborn\, 33098\, Germany
CATEGORIES:Colloquium,Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20250515T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20250515T180000
DTSTAMP:20260404T051538
CREATED:20250414T134925Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250428T122157Z
UID:30666-1747324800-1747332000@historyofwomenphilosophers.org
SUMMARY:Research Colloquium - Dr. Gabriele Schimmenti -(History of) Philosophy\, Politics\, and Art in Louise Dittmar (1807–1884): A Feminist Perspective
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Gabriele Schimmenti\, Post Doctoral Fellow and Adjunct Lecturer at the University Roma Tre (Italy)\, will introduce us into his research on (History of) Philosophy\, Politics\, and Art in Louise Dittmar (1807–1884): A Feminist Perspective. \nThe talk is part of the regular research colloquium and will take place at the Colloquium of Philosophy\, organized by the department of Philosophy at Paderborn University. \n  \nThe talk will start at 4 pm. \nEverybody is welcome to attend. \nRoom: O2\nBuilding O\nAdress: Pohlweg 51\, 33098 Paderborn\, Germany
URL:https://historyofwomenphilosophers.org/event/research-colloquium-dr-gabriele-schimmenti-history-of-philosophy-politics-and-art-in-louise-dittmar-1807-1884-a-feminist-perspective/
LOCATION:Building O\, Paderborn University\, Pohlweg 51\, Paderborn\, NRW\, 33098\, Germany
CATEGORIES:Colloquium,Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20250514T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20250514T180000
DTSTAMP:20260404T051538
CREATED:20250121T132628Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250121T132643Z
UID:30111-1747238400-1747245600@historyofwomenphilosophers.org
SUMMARY:New Voices Women's Ideas in the History of Medicine
DESCRIPTION:Viktorya Vasilyan: A History of Breastfeeding: Its Iconography and Medical Importance \n\n\n\n\n\nDuring human history\, infants were fed human milk for survival\, either through breastfeeding by their mothers or adoptive breastfeeding by other women. From antiquity to today\, breastfeeding has been valued\, reflected in mythology\, philosophy\, art\, and religion worldwide. In ancient Armenia\, it was prized for its health benefits\, with wet nurses serving the upper classes while rural women breastfed for economic reasons. Colostrum was once deemed harmful but gained recognition in 1699 through Michael Ettmüller. During the European Renaissance\, breastfeeding saw renewed appreciation in art\, with depictions like suckler Lady and suckler Eve symbolising respect for motherhood. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFigures such as Hildegard of Bingen and Regina Areshian\, founder of the Research Center of Maternal and Child Health Protection in Armenia\, studied maternal hygiene and wet nursing. This work explores sociological\, medical\, and moral treatises on these themes\, informed by research on the Virgo Lactans and Virgin of Humility. Iconography studies\, such as those by Williamson\, Sperling\, Rivera\, and Bergmann\, provide critical insights into the Eve-Mary relationship and sacred images\, though scholarly consensus on breastfeeding and wet nursing in the Middle Ages remains elusive. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout the Speaker…\n \n\n\n\n\nViktorya Vasilyan holds a PhD in History and serves as a researcher and the head of the Scientific Organisational Department at the Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography\, NAS RA. Additionally\, she is a lecturer at the Traditional Medicine University of Armenia. Currently\, she manages the “100 Archaeological Monuments of Armenia” project\, an initiative aimed at exploring and documenting significant archaeological sites across the nation. More information about this project is available at https://ama100.am/en. She is also honoured to serve as a Goodwill Ambassador for Peace\, Human Rights\, and Humanity with the IHRO in Armenia. \n\nEveryone is welcome to attend. Please register here and you will get the Zoom-Link after registration.
URL:https://historyofwomenphilosophers.org/event/new-voices-womens-ideas-in-the-history-of-medicine-5/
CATEGORIES:Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20250509T110000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20250509T133000
DTSTAMP:20260404T051538
CREATED:20250428T112028Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250428T122606Z
UID:30785-1746788400-1746797400@historyofwomenphilosophers.org
SUMMARY:Research Colloquium - Fatima Zohra Iflahen - Women’s Rights Theories and Movements in Morocco and North Africa: Coming of Age or Tutorship?
DESCRIPTION:Prof. Dr. Fatima-Zohra Iflahen\, Full Professor at Cadi Ayyad University\, Marrakesh\, Morocco\, will introduce us into her research on Women’s Rights Theories and Movements in Morocco and North Africa: Coming of Age or Tutorship? \nThe talk is part of the regular research colloquium held at the Center for the History of Women Philosophers and Scientists. The research colloquium is organized by Prof. Dr. Ruth E. Hagengruber. \nThe talk will start at 11 am (CEST). \nEverybody is welcome to attend. \nThe talk will be held via zoom: \nZoom-Link https://uni-paderborn-de.zoom-x.de/j/92100765408
URL:https://historyofwomenphilosophers.org/event/research-colloquium-fatima-zohra-iflahen-womens-rights-theories-and-movements-in-morocco-and-north-africa-coming-of-age-or-tutorship/
LOCATION:zoom
CATEGORIES:Colloquium,Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20250505T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20250505T180000
DTSTAMP:20260404T051538
CREATED:20250325T101435Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250428T122236Z
UID:30521-1746460800-1746468000@historyofwomenphilosophers.org
SUMMARY:Research Colloquium - Michael Walshots: JOHANNA CHARLOTTE UNZER (1725–82): THE FIRST FEMALE GERMAN PHILOSOPHER
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Michael Walshots\, Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz\, will introduce us into his research on Johanna Charlotte Unzer (1725–82): The first female german philosopher. \nThe talk is part of the regular research colloquium held at the Center for the History of Women Philosophers and Scientists. The research colloquium is organized by Prof. Dr. Ruth E. Hagengruber. \nThe talk will start at 4 pm. \nEverybody is welcome to attend. \nRoom: TP8.1.46\nBuilding Technologiepark 8\nAdress: Technologiepark 8\, 33098 Paderborn\, Germany
URL:https://historyofwomenphilosophers.org/event/research-colloquium-michael-walshots-johanna-charlotte-unzer-1725-82-the-first-female-german-philosopher/
LOCATION:Technologiepark 8\, Technologiepark 8\, Paderborn\, 33098\, Germany
CATEGORIES:Colloquium,Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20250430T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20250430T180000
DTSTAMP:20260404T051538
CREATED:20250121T132156Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250307T073542Z
UID:30107-1746028800-1746036000@historyofwomenphilosophers.org
SUMMARY:New Voices Women's Ideas in the History of Medicine
DESCRIPTION:Karine Durin: Fluids as Dynamic and Organic Forces. Medical knowledge in Oliva Sabuco de Nantes \n\n\n\n\n\nThis work will examine the study of organic fluids and movements in the Nueva filosofía de la naturaleza del hombre\, published by Oliva Sabuco de Nantes in 1587. The representation of the internal anatomy shows the dynamics that flow back and forth\, combining the power of emotions and affects\, the processes of digestion and the influence of the environment\, all of which are expressed in Sabuco’s vision through the ebb and flow of movements of growth and decay. The categories of dry and wet are themselves governed by the emotions\, in particular tristeza y descontento\, when the soul and body are in discord. The regulating role of the emotions on the movement of fluids and even on the principles of digestion brings us back \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nback to the centre of the vital composition\, which for Sabuco is the brain. From then\, the flow of fluids in all their forms (milk\, semen\, bile\, gastric fluid\, tears\, white blood\, chyle) led us to follow Sabuco’s project of medical reform. But what happens in this text with the legacy of ancient and galenic physiology’s theories on fluids and humours? What philosophical interpretation stems from this interpretation of the bodily fluidity\, which affects men\, women and animals equally? The bodily fluidity in Sabuco gives rise to a rich metaphorical expression and highlights a vitalism correlated with a global vision of society whose reform project concludes the 1587 work. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n  \nAbout the Speakers…\n \n\n\n\n\nKarine Durin is Full-Professor at the University of Nantes (France). She is a specialist of intellectual history in the Early Modern Iberian World. She recently published a chapter on Sabuco de Nantes\, between Epicureanism and Stoicism (“A Female Dissenter in Counter-Reformation Spain”\, De Gruyter\, 2024) and a contribution on feminine reading of Baltasar Gracián in XVIIth century France (Classiques Garnier\, 2024). She is currently working on the first translation of Sabuco’s treatise in French. \n\n  \nEveryone is welcome to attend. Please register here and you will get the Zoom-Link after registration.
URL:https://historyofwomenphilosophers.org/event/new-voices-womens-ideas-in-the-history-of-medicine-4/
CATEGORIES:Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20250430T110000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20250430T130000
DTSTAMP:20260404T051538
CREATED:20250424T142830Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250428T122638Z
UID:30744-1746010800-1746018000@historyofwomenphilosophers.org
SUMMARY:Research Colloquium - Dr. Dagmar Pichová (Masaryk University\, Brno)\, Czech Women Philosophers: Anna Pammrová and Albína Dratvová
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Pichová is giving a guest lecture in the seminar Radical Feminism (led by Ana Rodrigues). \nThe lecture will take place on campus in room E2.316. \nInterested guests are welcome!  However\, due to limited room capacity\, prior registration is requested: please email to ana.rodrigues@uni-paderborn.de \n  \nDr. Pichová will present the life and work of two Czech women philosophers\, Anna Pammrová (1860–1945) and Albína Dratvová (1892–1969). \nAlbína Dratvová was among the first women to graduate from Charles University in Prague. She was the first Czech woman philosopher to pursue an academic career\, publish a philosophical monograph\, and earn her habilitation in philosophy. Dratvová was also deeply engaged with psychology and ethical issues. In Smutek vzdělanců (The Sadness of Scholars\, 1940)\, she explored the nature and causes of the distinct melancholy experienced by scholars as a consequence of their intellectual work. \nAnna Pammrová spent most of her life in seclusion in the forest\, living in extremely modest conditions. Despite her unconventional and largely self-directed education\, she acquired extensive knowledge of foreign languages and translated philosophical texts into Czech. Her interests spanned Ancient Indian wisdom\, theosophy\, and the philosophy of Tolstoy\, Schopenhauer\, and Nietzsche. \nDagmar Pichová argues that studying their work is valuable not only as a case study of Central European women philosophers but also for its broader intellectual contributions. Pammrová’s thought can be examined through the lens of contemporary ecofeminism\, while Dratvová developed a complex perspective on the status and role of scholars in modern society.
URL:https://historyofwomenphilosophers.org/event/research-colloquium-dr-dagmar-pichova-masaryk-university-brno-czech-women-philosophers-anna-pammrova-and-albina-dratvova/
LOCATION:Building E\, Paderborn University\, Warburger Straße 100\, Paderborn\, 33098\, Germany
CATEGORIES:Colloquium,Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20250416T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20250416T180000
DTSTAMP:20260404T051538
CREATED:20250121T131624Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250121T131755Z
UID:30102-1744819200-1744826400@historyofwomenphilosophers.org
SUMMARY:New Voices Women's Ideas in the History of Medicine
DESCRIPTION:Shannon McHugh: Women’s Reproductive Lives in Renaissance Italian Lyric Poetry \n\n\n\n\n\nWhat can a sonnet teach us about the history of women’s reproductive bodies? For the early modern world\, notions about pregnancy and childbirth have been well documented by historians\, who have combed through archival and print materials composed by the period’s medical\, religious\, and humanist authorities. Literary texts\, however\, have been consulted less\, including lyric poetry; short\, emotional poems are not normally among the historian’s go-to objects. Yet lyric is rife with representations of motherhood. Examples appear in verse written in vernacular and in Latin\, in poems of Marian worship and of autobiographic account\, such as the prolific poet Francesca Turina (1553–1641)\, who composed numerous poems on miscarriage\, childbirth\, and early motherhood. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe details captured in her descriptions both complicate standard historical narratives and flesh out our understanding of family practices in this period\, shading in scholarly models with affective dimensions. This paper expands our understanding of the history of women’s reproductive autonomy by tracing depictions of pregnancy\, abortion\, miscarriage\, birth\, and nursing in Renaissance Italian lyric poetry. Unlike texts by medical and theological authorities\, lyric provides access to personal experience and can do so on a wider scale: it was the most democratic of literary genres\, practiced by men of various social stripes\, and\, in early modern Italy\, by numerous women. \n\n\n\n  \nAbout the Speaker…\n \n\n\n\n\nShannon McHugh is Assistant Director of Research at The Huntington Library. Her research focuses on early modern Italian and French lyric poetry and gender. Publications include Petrarch and the Making of Gender in Renaissance Italy (Amsterdam UP\, 2023) and the co-edited volume Vittoria Colonna: Poetry\, Religion\, Art\, Impact(Amsterdam UP\, 2021). She was the 2023–24 Molina Fellow in the History of Medicine at The Huntington\, where she researched her current book project\, “Women’s Reproductive Lives in Renaissance Lyric Poetry.” \n\n  \nEveryone is welcome to attend. Please register here and you will get the Zoom-Link after registration.
URL:https://historyofwomenphilosophers.org/event/new-voices-womens-ideas-in-the-history-of-medicine-3/
CATEGORIES:Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20250402T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20250402T180000
DTSTAMP:20260404T051538
CREATED:20250121T131017Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250326T074025Z
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SUMMARY:New Voices Women's Ideas in the History of Medicine
DESCRIPTION:Anna Gili: Women’s Health in Early Islamic Medical Works: Contextualising al-Maǧūsī’s “Kitāb al-malakī” \n\n\n\n\n\nAl-Maǧūsī\, a Zoroastrian physician from the Fārs province\, composed his Kitāb al-malakī during the second half of the tenth century. This medical encyclopaedia in ten books which aims to synthesize and systematize all earlier medical knowledge into a unified whole also devotes great attention to women’s health issues. Al-Maǧūsī’s analysis encompasses topics such as foetal formation\, growth\, and female anatomy along gynaecological diseases\, the diet of pregnant women and the role of midwives\, while also examining cures for gynaecological ailments and specific surgical operations. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBased on the assumption that the Kitāb al-malakī should be studied as an organic treatise\, my talk will present an overview of how and why reproduction\, maternity\, and fertility were considered relevant in the tenth century. I will also be assessing to what extent the Kitāb al-malakī relies on earlier sources and which innovations are contributed by al- Maǧūsī himself. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout the Speaker…\n \n\n\n\n\nAnna Gili is a PhD student in Latin and Arabic philology at the University of Padua and the Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg (cotutelle de thèse). Her main research interest is the transmission of medical knowledge from Greek into Arabic and from Arabic into Latin during the Middle Ages. Her PhD project aims to critically edit and study the books on pathology in the medical encyclopaedia al-Kitāb al-Malakī\, composed by ʿAlī ibn al-ʿAbbās al-Maǧūsī (10th c.) and in its two Latin translations\, namely the Pantegni by Constantine the African and the Liber regalis by Stephen of Antioch. \n\n\n  \nEveryone is welcome to attend. Please register here and you will get the Zoom-Link after registration.
URL:https://historyofwomenphilosophers.org/event/new-voices-womens-ideas-in-the-history-of-medicine-2/
CATEGORIES:Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20250319T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20250319T180000
DTSTAMP:20260404T051538
CREATED:20250121T114028Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250121T133611Z
UID:30087-1742400000-1742407200@historyofwomenphilosophers.org
SUMMARY:New Voices Women's Ideas in the History of Medicine
DESCRIPTION:Irene Calà: Aspasia and the Others: Women and Medicine in Late Antiquity \n\n\n\n\n\nMedical texts from Late Antiquity are invaluable for our understanding of lost medical sources. This is particularly true for the medical work of Aetius\, a physician native to Amida\, lived in the first half of the sixth century AD\, and author of a 16-book treatise known as Libri medicinales. This compilation is considered one of the most significant and source-rich works of its time.  While female sources in medical texts appear quite limited or entirely absent—such as in the works of Oribasius of Pergamum—they undoubtedly represent one of the primary sources for the last of the Libri medicinales\, where Aetius lists a certain Aspasia as a specialist in various medical practices related to gynaecology and obstetrics. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe prominence of Aspasia seems\, at times\, to overshadow that of the more renowned Soranus of Ephesus\, who is considered the foremost authority on women’s diseases. From this observation\, we will attempt to trace the remnants of a medical literature written by women\, echoes of which are preserved in the medical texts of Late Antiquity. The selected passages related to fertility\, pregnancy\, and childbirth management will be discussed\, highlighting the physical and psychological approach that characterizes Aspasia’s medical practice and the concrete role played by women in the care of women. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout the Speaker…\n \n\n\n\n\nIrene Calà is research associate at the Institute for Ethics\, History\, and Theory of Medicine at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München. She is specialist of Greek medicine in Late Antiquity\, with a focus on the continuity of medical knowledge from antiquity through the Renaissance. She is currently working on the first critical edition of the unpublished books of Aetius of Amida\, in the DFG project led by Mathias Witt.  \n\n\n\n  \nEveryone is welcome to attend. Please register here and you will get the Zoom-Link after registration.
URL:https://historyofwomenphilosophers.org/event/new-voices-womens-ideas-in-the-history-of-medicine/
CATEGORIES:Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20250303T163000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20250303T183000
DTSTAMP:20260404T051538
CREATED:20250228T160017Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250228T160324Z
UID:30262-1741019400-1741026600@historyofwomenphilosophers.org
SUMMARY:About the Entanglements of Life
DESCRIPTION:Inputtalk zur regulären stattfindenden Veranstaltung Pillars & Umbrellas des Gleichstellungsprogramms der Technischen Universität Dresden. Im Rahmen der Veranstaltungsreihe findet am kommenden Montag 3. März 2025 ein DIALOGUE – Format der Kolloquiumsreihe statt. Es handelt sich dabei um den  vierten Teil der Kolloquiumsreihe mit dem Thema Reshape Reality – Questioning Claims of Neutrality for Inclusive TechnoFutures\, bei dem unser Kollege Felix Grewe einen Inputtalk zu Donna J. Haraway halten wird. \nDer Titel des Talks lautet: About the Entanglements of Life – Donna J. Haraway and her theories on becoming with/kinship \nMehr Informationen zur Veranstaltung können auf der Seite der TU Dresden abgerufen werden. \n 
URL:https://historyofwomenphilosophers.org/event/about-the-entanglements-of-life/
LOCATION:TU Dresden/ZOOM
CATEGORIES:Colloquium,Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20250226T163000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20250226T180000
DTSTAMP:20260404T051538
CREATED:20241118T105355Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241118T105400Z
UID:29929-1740587400-1740592800@historyofwomenphilosophers.org
SUMMARY:New Voices Winter 2025: Women in the History of Analytic Philosophy and Philosophy of Science
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Amanda J. Favia (Nassau Community College): What’s Self-love Got to Do with it? E.E. Constance Jones on the Deduction of Prudence from Benevolence \nE. E. (Emily Elizabeth) Constance Jones (1848-1922) was a prominent figure in British philosophy in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries known primarily for her work in philosophical logic. Jones\, however\, also made important contributions to ethics and moral psychology. This talk will focus on one of those contributions—Jones’s response to Sidgwick’s “dualism of practical reason”\, a problem that Sidgwick never resolved to his own satisfaction. Sidgwick held that practical reason has an allegiance to two distinct ‘methods’: self-love (prudence) and benevolence (duty to others). While both methods are independently rational\, they may potentially come into conflict. This\, for Jones\, presented “the most important difficulty of the system of [Sidgwick’s] Universalistic Hedonism”. As such\, she returned to this problem a number of times in the course of her career producing several original and promising responses. In two of her most promising responses—what I will call the Argument from Temporal Irrelevance and the Argument from Mutual Dependency—Jones attempts to demonstrate a necessary connection between self-love and benevolence that subverts the problematic dualism. Ultimately\, there is no actual conflict of methods\, only an appearance of one. After a close analysis of these two arguments\, I will consider some challenges to her view and argue that even if her arguments are not entirely successful in resolving the “dualism of practical reason”\, they succeed in changing the course of the debate.
URL:https://historyofwomenphilosophers.org/event/new-voices-winter-2025-women-in-the-history-of-analytic-philosophy-and-philosophy-of-science-5/
CATEGORIES:Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20250219T163000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20250219T180000
DTSTAMP:20260404T051538
CREATED:20241118T105003Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241125T140456Z
UID:29926-1739982600-1739988000@historyofwomenphilosophers.org
SUMMARY:New Voices Winter 2025: Women in the History of Analytic Philosophy and Philosophy of Science
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Julia Franke-Reddig (University of Siegen and Université de Genève): Ilse (Rosenthal-)Schneider and Einstein on Kantian Philosophy \nThe name Ilse (Rosenthal-)Schneider is not well known today. However\, she was a promising student of Albert Einstein\, Max von Laue\, and Alois Riehl\, publishing her dissertation on the space-time problem in the context of Kant and Einstein with Springer in 1921. Although prominent philosophers like Moritz Schlick and Hans Reichenbach harshly criticized her interpretation of the relationship between transcendental philosophy and the theory of relativity\, Einstein himself supported Schneider’s work\, even after her exile to Australia in 1938. \nIn Australia\, she never obtained a professorship but remained actively engaged in research and university life. Notably\, she later became a key figure in the foundation of Australian philosophy of science. Systematically\, Schneider advocated for a Neo-Kantian view\, arguing that transcendental philosophy was compatible with the general theory of relativity. While I do not aim to determine whether her interpretation was correct\, it is worth noting that Einstein—though not a philosopher and unfamiliar with Kantian philosophy—has often been associated with philosophical interpretations of relativity theory\, particularly by thinkers who reject a transcendental perspective. \nAs Klaus Hentschel pointed out\, Einstein evolved from being a conventionalist in 1917 to adopting a philosophical realist stance in later years. This evolution makes Schneider’s perspective on the philosophical interpretation of relativity theory particularly intriguing. She maintained close correspondence and professional exchange with Einstein until the end of his life. \nIn my talk\, I will reconstruct Schneider’s position on the relationship between Kantian philosophy and relativity theory and compare it to Einstein’s comments on the subject. This analysis aims to propose an approach or an initial framework for a better understanding Einstein’s position regarding the philosophical implications of his theory.
URL:https://historyofwomenphilosophers.org/event/new-voices-winter-2025-women-in-the-history-of-analytic-philosophy-and-philosophy-of-science-4/
CATEGORIES:Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20250212T163000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20250212T180000
DTSTAMP:20260404T051538
CREATED:20241118T103628Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241118T104709Z
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SUMMARY:New Voices Winter 2025: Women in the History of Analytic Philosophy and Philosophy of Science
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Suki Finn (Royal Holloway University of London): Thinking (About Stebbing) To Some (Feminist) Purpose \nSusan Stebbing’s popular book\, Thinking To Some Purpose\, was first published in 1939\, went out of print for many decades\, and was finally republished in 2022. The relevance of and need for the book is as pertinent now as it was when it was written. This paper outlines its applicability to the contemporary political setting and positions it as a feminist text. As such\, I think about Stebbing to some purpose\, namely\, some feminist purpose\, and argue that this gives purpose to Thinking To Some Purpose in present times. Gillian Russell (2024) has deemed Thinking To Some Purpose to be feminist insofar as it can be utilised to serve feminist ends; Sophia M. Connell and Frederique Janssen-Lauret (2023) take Stebbing’s work to exemplify and promote epistemic virtues that one could take to be feminist; Bryan Pickel (2022) highlights Stebbing’s holistic view of thought that incorporates a persons social situation\, which is reminiscent of feminist epistemology. I agree on all of these accounts and find further evidence to paint a feminist picture of Stebbing\, arguing for the rightful place of Thinking To Some Purpose as a crucial book for and of feminism\, inside and outside of academic philosophy. \n 
URL:https://historyofwomenphilosophers.org/event/new-voices-winter-2025-women-in-the-history-of-analytic-philosophy-and-philosophy-of-science-3/
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SUMMARY:New Voices Winter 2025: Women in the History of Analytic Philosophy and Philosophy of Science
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Giulia Felappi\, (University of Southampton): “There is no reason for the necessity of the ultimate principles of deduction.” Margaret MacDonald on Logical Necessity. \nThis talks aims at contributing to the recent enterprise of rediscovering Margaret MacDonald’s views\, by focusing on her reflections on the necessity of logic\, a theme that runs through many of her papers and reviews. As it has been noted\, MacDonald was profoundly influenced by Peirce\, the Vienna Circle’s positivists\, Stebbing and Wittgenstein\, in particular the one of the lectures he delivered in the mid 1930s in Cambridge. Those authors surely form the background against which she developed her own views on the necessity of logic. But in this paper we will not aim at discussing her claims to detect those influences. Rather\, we will focus on MacDonald’s claims themselves\, and the reasons she put forward to support them. We will see both MacDonald’s negative views about what the necessity of logic is not (§1)\, and her positive view about what it is and how it supports her claim that it is in fact irrational to ask for a reason for the necessity of logic (§2). We will conclude by considering what she would reply now to defenders of dialethism and paraconsistent logics\, to better show how her view on the necessity of logic is different from others\, such as David Lewis’s (§3).
URL:https://historyofwomenphilosophers.org/event/new-voices-winter-2025-women-in-the-history-of-analytic-philosophy-and-philosophy-of-science/
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SUMMARY:Research Colloquium - Inken Schmidt-Voges & Sina Menke
DESCRIPTION:Prof. Dr. Inken Schmidt-Voges (Universität Marburg) and Sina Menke will present their Research. More information coming soon.
URL:https://historyofwomenphilosophers.org/event/research-colloquium-inken-schmidt-voges-sina-menke/
LOCATION:Technologiepark 21\, Universität Paderborn\, 33100\, Germany
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SUMMARY:Research Colloquium - Andreas Vrahimis
DESCRIPTION:Talk by Dr. Andreas Vrahimis (University of Cyprus). More Information coming soon.
URL:https://historyofwomenphilosophers.org/event/research-colloquium-andreas-vrahimis/
LOCATION:Technologiepark 21\, Universität Paderborn\, 33100\, Germany
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SUMMARY:New Voices 2025: Women in the History of Analytic Philosophy and Philosophy of Science
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Peter West (Northestern University\, London): Dorothy Emmet’s Moral Philosophy \nDorothy Emmet (1904-2000) was only the second woman in Britain to be a Professor of Philosophy\, when she was appointed to the position at Manchester University in 1946. She succeeded Susan Stebbing and\, like Stebbing\, was the only woman in Britain to be a Professor of Philosophy upon her appointment (Stebbing died in 1943). There is currently almost no secondary literature on Emmet (West 2023 is an exception) and virtually no scholarship on her moral philosophy (aside from Larry Blum’s recent discussions of Emmet in connection to the Wartime Quartet). \nYet\, Emmet’s work in moral philosophy makes for fascinating reading. As a student in Oxford she studied under A. D. Lindsay and\, like Lindsay\, felt almost immediately disillusioned by the moral philosophy she saw taking place around her\, which seemed too abstract and detached from the real world. Emmet’s intuitions were further cemented during her summers as a student which she spent teaching Plato’s Republic to miners in Wales. In 1966\, she published Rules\, Roles and Relations. The central thesis of the text is that moral philosophy should draw on the insights of sociology. Sociology\, Emmet argues\, informs us that human relations and interactions are too complex and ‘intermingled’ to be subjected to the kind of abstract analysis that moral philosophers typically employ. In particular\, Emmet argues that the roles we play in a society (roles like mother\, sister\, colleague\, police officer\, teacher\, member of parliament\, and so on) have a deep influence on the kinds of actions we perform and the morality of those actions. \nIn this paper\, I will reconstruct Emmet’s approach to moral philosophy. I will also argue that\, like Stebbing and (afterwards) members of the Wartime Quartet\, Emmet felt that modern moral philosophy should take inspiration from Aristotle. Instead of focusing on linguistic analysis of terms like ‘good’ and on atomistic conceptions of interactions between agents\, moral philosophy should focus on our character traits\, virtues (or what Emmet calls ‘excellences’)\, and on our ways of living.
URL:https://historyofwomenphilosophers.org/event/new-voices-2025-women-in-the-history-of-analytic-philosophy-and-philosophy-of-science/
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SUMMARY:New Voices Winter 2025: Women in the History of Analytic Philosophy and Philosophy of Science
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Andreas Vrahimis (University of Cyprus): Stebbing’s critique of Schiller’s pragmatism \nWhereas early criticisms of pragmatist theories of truth by analytic philosophers like Russell and G.E. Moore are well known\, and helped shape the ongoing debates on this topic\, L. Susan Stebbing’s significant contributions to the debate have hitherto largely been ignored. At the outset of her career\, Stebbing became embroiled in a controversy with F.C.S. Schiller\, spanning multiple publications\, in which she objected against his variant of the pragmatist account of truth. As Chapman notes\, the debate is somewhat abstruse and ‘does not make very satisfactory reading’ (2013\, 30). It involves multiple forms of miscommunication\, largely due to Schiller’s failure\, throughout the debate\, to acknowledge the significance of some of Stebbing’s arguments. In this paper\, I reconstruct the debate in a manner that clarifies the arguments on either side. I thereby re-evaluate the debate’s significance for understanding the development of Stebbing’s views and their position within the history of analytic philosophy’s early critical encounters with pragmatism. At stake in the debate is\, primarily\, the question whether the pragmatist tenet ‘all that is true works’ is logically convertible into the obverse claim that ‘all that works is true’. I demonstrate that this question originates in Moore’s prior objections against William James’ theory of truth. The debate is prompted by Schiller’s reply to Moore\, in which he rejects that the pragmatist theory of truth entails this convertibility. He does this by attempting to account for falsehoods that work. In developing a series of detailed objections\, Stebbing aims to demonstrate Schiller’s response to Moore to be inadequate. I show that\, contrary to what has been commonly assumed in the recent scholarly literature\, Stebbing’s (qualified) defence of Moorean theses began already at the outset of her career. In his multiple responses to Stebbing\, Schiller ends up denying that pragmatism upholds a criterion for truth\, but claims it only involves a specific view of confirmation. I argue that\, once the misunderstandings are cleared away\, the debate can be shown to have ended prematurely\, with a number of challenges posed by Stebbing left unanswered by Schiller’s confirmationism.
URL:https://historyofwomenphilosophers.org/event/new-voices-winter-2025-women-in-the-history-of-analytic-philosophy-and-philosophy-of-science-2/
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