The title "Politics as Theology" of the 5th Annual International Summer School and Conference 2017 "Beyond Secular Faith", stems from a conviction that only a faith liberated from the conceptual restraints and ideological presuppositions imposed by secular culture - a faith centered radically on Christ - can offer a word of hope and reason to […]
Ruggero Sciuto (Oxford) is giving a talk on "Émilie Du Châtelet and the Three Leibnizian Versions of the Principle of Sufficient Reason" as part of the Research Colloquium "History of Women Philosophers" at the Center for the History of Women Philosophers and Scientists (Paderborn University).
For the fourth year in a row, the Conference by Women in Philosophy will be held in Amsterdam. This year’s conference will take place on Monday July 3rd, 2017 at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. The goal of the conference is to provide a platform for undergraduate and graduate women philosophers to present their work to […]
In 1785 Jacques-Pierre Brissot de Warville was in London, attempting to set up a society and journal to encourage cross-channel literary and political communication. His efforts resulted in the production of a few issues of the Lycee de Londres. He reported that in England he gained little support or encouragement, except from Catharine Macaulay. In […]
Dr. Rodney Parker (Paderborn), Dr. Henning Peucker (Paderborn) and Prof. Dr. Wolfhart Heckmann (Munich) are giving talks on the topic of Phenomenology, with regard to "Anthropology and Metaphysics in the Munich and Freiburg Circle", as part of the Research Colloquium "History of Women Philosophers" at the Center for the History of Women Philosophers and Scientists […]
Andrew Janiak, Professor of Philosophy, Chair of the Department (Duke University), and the co-leader of Project Vox , visits the Center for the History of Women Philosophers and Scientists. Both projects focus on texts written by women philosophers that have been neglected or ignored in the mainstream narratives of the history of philosophy. Project Vox's research […]
The first International Libori Summer School, organized by the Center for the History Women Philosophers and Scientists, starts with an event at the atmospheric Deelenhaus. After welcome addresses by Prof. Ruth Hagengruber, starting at 6:15 pm, Prof. Ronny Miron from Bar-Ilan University in Tel Aviv will hold an opening speech entitled "Shakespeare's Sisters". Afterwards, the […]
Libori Summer School course "Women Philosophers - Medieval and Renaissance Periods": With her book series „A History of Women Philosophers“ the instructor of this class, Prof. Dr. Mary Ellen Waithe, created a thorough overview over female thinkers, authors, and scientists within the history of philosophy. Together with Reverend Dr. Conley and Evina Glantzi this Libori […]
The Libori Summer School “Émilie Du Châtelet: Matter, Bodies, Forces, Motion” focuses on some of the chapters from Du Châtelet’s Institutions de physique (1740/42) within the context of the scientific thinking of her time. In the early 18th century, the Dutch physicist Willem Jacob 's Gravesande, at Leiden University, performed a number of experiments wherein […]
Libori Summer School course "Women Phenomenologists of the Early 20th Century": In 1907, the Göttingen Circle of phenomenologists was founded by Theodor Conrad – one of many students of Theodor Lipps who travelled from Munich to study with Husserl – and Alfred von Sybel – one of Husserl’s early Göttingen followers. Over the next three […]
This Libori Summer School course "Helene Druskowitz and Modern Misandry" will offer an overview over a minimally investigated “third voice” in the history of ideas: man-hating (misandry, viriphobia). As some would argue, misandry, though more covertly than misogyny, has always been present in the public discourse of our civilization. However, around the fin de siècle […]
Keynote speakers: Sigridur Thorgeirsdottir, Professor of Philosophy at the University of Iceland, specializing in feminist philosophy, the philosophy of Nietzsche, and the philosophy of nature and embodiment. Cecilia Malmström Olsson, PhD at Lund University in Literature, with special focus on Dance Studies. Malmström Olsson specializes in dance and aesthetics, as well as dance and politics […]
As part of the first International Libori Summer School, the project Center for the History of Women Philosophers and Scientists will hold an evening event at the AStA Stadtcampus, starting at 6.30 pm on Wednesday, July 26th. Prof. Jeffrey K. McDonough, Head of the Department of the History of Philosophy at Harvard University, will present […]
The first International Libori Summer School will end ceremoniously with an evening event at the Deelenhaus. The director of the Center for the History of Women Philosophers and Scientists, Prof. Ruth Hagengruber, will chair the event together with American professor and project advisor Mary Ellen Waithe. Afterwards, Dr. Charles Wolfe from Ghent University will give […]
The interdisciplinary and award winning project “Philosophie in den Medien“ was launched 2014 by Prof. Dr. Ruth Hagengruber (philosophy), Prof. Dr. Dr. Gerhard E. Ortner (dramatic staging), Ulrich Lettermann (music), and Bernhard Koch (filming) to present women philosophers’ thoughts via student performances to the broad public. These performances featured women philosophers and scientists as Émilie […]
In this paper, Karen Detlefsen (University of Pennsylvania) examines two early modern women’s approach to women, their minds and education, and their self-knowledge. Mary Astell is a seventeenth-century thinker who grounds many of her claims in theological commitments. Emilie Du Châtelet is an eighteenth century thinkers whose theological commitments are considerably weaker, and as a […]