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View article: Julia Wedgwood and the origin of language
Julia Wedgwood and the origin of language Open
This article provides the first detailed modern examination of Julia Wedgwood's interventions in the Victorian debate about the origin of language. Wedgwood wanted to understand language, consistently with Darwin's theory of evolution, as …
View article: Data privacy: a decade of confusion
Data privacy: a decade of confusion Open
Iacobucci's article on a general practice withdrawing from a kidney screening pilot after patients voiced concerns emphasises the urgent need for clear guidance for practices and patients about the ways that patient data are used, includin…
View article: Aesthetics and Ethics in Anna Jameson’s Characteristics of Women
Aesthetics and Ethics in Anna Jameson’s Characteristics of Women Open
In this paper I contribute to the recovery of women in the history of philosophy by giving the first modern-day philosophical account of the ideas on aesthetics and ethics of Anna Jameson (1794–1860). Although Jameson was massive in her ti…
View article: Emilia Dilke on Aesthetics
Emilia Dilke on Aesthetics Open
This article contributes to recovering the history of women’s contributions to aesthetics by examining Emilia Dilke’s writings on aesthetics from the mid-1860s to the early 1870s. Initially, Dilke took the historicist view that artworks ar…
View article: The Aesthetic Theory of Frances Power Cobbe
The Aesthetic Theory of Frances Power Cobbe Open
This article contributes to recognizing and recovering women’s voices in the history of aesthetics by examining the aesthetic theory put forward in the 1860s by the Anglo-Irish philosopher and feminist Frances Power Cobbe. Cobbe addressed …
View article: Bettina von Arnim's Romantic Philosophy in<i>Die Günderode</i>
Bettina von Arnim's Romantic Philosophy in<i>Die Günderode</i> Open
This article puts forward a philosophical interpretation of Bettina von Arnim's epistolary book Die Günderode , in the following stages. First I situate von Arnim's work in relation to women's participation in early German Romanticism and …
View article: Introduction to nineteenth-century British and American women philosophers
Introduction to nineteenth-century British and American women philosophers Open
Since the 1980s, an immense wave of scholarship has recovered the voices of the many women who contributed to early modern philosophy, transforming our picture of the period. It is now typical for ...
View article: Nature, Freedom, and Gender in Schelling
Nature, Freedom, and Gender in Schelling Open
This chapter examines Schelling’s ideas about nature and freedom from a feminist perspective, looking at his First Outline of a System of the Philosophy of Nature and his later Philosophical Investigations on the Essence of Human Freedom. …
View article: Conflicts of Motherhood, Then and Now
Conflicts of Motherhood, Then and Now Open
This piece reflects on the changes in the author’s relationship with her daughter over the ten years since the inaugural issue of Studies in the Maternal was published, in conjunction with the ways that philosophical exploration of motherh…
View article: Educational Outcomes For Aboriginal School Students In Tasmania: Is The Achievement Gap Closing?
Educational Outcomes For Aboriginal School Students In Tasmania: Is The Achievement Gap Closing? Open
A quality education is a basic societal right. Yet for many Aboriginal students that right is not yet a reality. This paper focuses on the situation of Aboriginal/palawa school students in Tasmania and employs a quantitative methodology to…
View article: Foreword
Foreword Open
s book L'ordine simbolico della madre was published in 1991 and translated into German in 1993, Spanish in 1994, and French in 2003.The publication of this translation is very welcome; it makes available to English speakers, at last, this …
View article: Europe and Eurocentrism
Europe and Eurocentrism Open
In this article I explore how philosophical thinking about God, reason, humanity and history has shaped ideas of Europe, focusing on Hegel. For Hegel, Europe is the civilization that, by way of Christianity, has advanced the spirit of free…
View article: II—Europe and Eurocentrism
II—Europe and Eurocentrism Open
In this article I explore how philosophical thinking about God, reason, humanity and history has shaped ideas of Europe, focusing on Hegel. For Hegel, Europe is the civilization that, by way of Christianity, has advanced the spirit of free…