Table Of ContentWomen in the History of Philosophy and Sciences 13
Christine Lopes
Katarina Ribeiro Peixoto
Pedro Pricladnitzky Editors
Latin American
Perspectives
on Women
Philosophers in
Modern History
Women in the History of Philosophy
and Sciences
Volume 13
SeriesEditors
RuthEdithHagengruber,DepartmentofHumanities,CenterfortheHistory
ofWomenPhilosophers,PaderbornUniversity,Paderborn,Germany
MaryEllenWaithe,ProfessorEmerita,DepartmentofPhilosophyandComparative
Religion,ClevelandStateUniversity,Cleveland,OH,USA
GianniPaganini,DepartmentofHumanities,UniversityofPiedmont,Vercelli,Italy
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SarahHutton,UniversityofYork,London,UK
KaterinaKarpenko,Philosophy,KharkivNationalMedicalUniversity,Kharkiv,
Ukraine
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RonnyMiron,Bar-IlanUniversity,GaneyTikva,Israel
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As the historical records prove, women have long been creating original
contributions to philosophy. We have valuable writings from female philosophers
from Antiquity and the Middle Ages, and a continuous tradition from the
Renaissancetotoday.Thehistoryofwomenphilosophersthusstretchesbackasfar
as the history of philosophy itself. The presence as well as the absence of women
philosophersthroughoutthecourseofhistoryparallelsthehistoryofphilosophyas
awhole.
Edith Stein, Hannah Arendt and Simone de Beauvoir, the most famous
representatives of this tradition in the twentieth century, did not appear form
nowhere. They stand,sotospeak,ontheshoulders ofthefemaletitanswhocame
beforethem.
TheseriesWomenPhilosophersandScientistspublishedbySpringerisofinterest
notonlytotheinternationalphilosophycommunity,butalsoforscholarsinhistory
ofscienceandmathematics,thehistoryofideas,andinwomen’sstudies.
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Christine Lopes Katarina Ribeiro Peixoto
Pedro Pricladnitzky
Editors
Latin American Perspectives
on Women Philosophers
in Modern History
Editors
ChristineLopes KatarinaRibeiroPeixoto
JewishAcademy(AJ)–SãoPaulo StateUniversityofRiodeJaneiro(UERJ)
Southampton,UnitedKingdom RiodeJaneiro,Brazil
PedroPricladnitzky
StateUniversityofWesternParaná
(UNIOESTE)
Paraná,Brazil
StateUniversityofRiodeJaneiro(UERJ)
RiodeJaneiro,Brazil
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Foreword
BeyondtheCenturies,Culture,andotherBoundaries:Why
westudytheHistoryofWomenPhilosophersandScientists
In 2018, for the occasion of the four hundredth birthday celebration of Elisabeth
ofBohemia,ayoungBrazilianresearcher,Dr.KatarinaRibeiroPeixotojoinedthe
CelebratoryConferenceorganizedbytheCenterfortheHistoryofWomenPhiloso-
phers in Paderborn, Germany. Her visit was the first step to linking international
communitiesandtheirresearchintoreconstructingtheculturalheritageofwomen
philosophers.Threeyearslater,anintensivecooperationisinprocess,newperspec-
tiveshaveopened,andthisimportantvolumehasbeenaccomplished:LatinAmerican
PerspectivesonWomenPhilosophersinModernHistory.
Themoodforthisnewbeginningwasenthusiastic,thoughoneimportantquestion
demandedourattention:ShouldthereadingofwomenphilosophersintheEuropean
tradition—though long excluded—become an important topic in the rewriting of
the history of philosophy, or should scholars confine themselves to the discovery
and reawakening of the thoughts of women philosophers in their own particular
cultural context? Should the texts of these European women philosophers be read
andre-reflected,orhadthistobeseenasare-colonializationactofWesternthought,
yetonlyindisguise?Howisitpossibletoadvance mutualcooperationinorderto
retrieve our common women philosophers’ tradition, including the European and
LatinAmericanone,yetnotconfinedtothese?
IsreadingandlearningfromwomenphilosopherswiththeirWesternbackground
intertwined with the suppressive history of suprematism? Yes, and no. Of course,
womenwhoparticipatedinthatpolicywerepartofit,atleastinthesenseofbeing
partoftheunderlyingstructures.Womenphilosophersareasresponsibleasanyone
else,theyhavetobeinvestigated,intheirownright,astowhichsidetheywereon,
whatphilosophytheyprovidedtodescribetheirworld,thekindofnormstheydrafted
andwhichideastheydiscoveredtoestablishphilosophyandscientificthinking.
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Should these women who are not part of one’s own cultural tradition become
excluded? Is it an alternative to confine one’s own ideas and to root intellectual
powerinanationalistand/orgroupworld?
Ifwedidso,wewoulddelimitourworldofideasthatweareableotherwiseto
sharewithpeoplefromallovertheworld(andwhichistheonlymeansthatallows
ustocrossbordersandgobeyondboundaries)andsacrificethisideainfavourofthe
placewhereweourselveshappentobeborn.Weareallcitizensoftheworld,atleast
united in spirit, and therein lies the opportunity to create unity across borders and
breakchains.Greatideasdonotbelongtoanycountry.Wesharespiritualinsightsthat
neverbecomelessinsharing;onthecontrary,spiritshavethesecretofmultiplying
bydivision.
We all need to relearn and appreciate the fruitfulness of spiritual sharing. This
bookisanexampleofdoingso.Insharingandbringingtogetherwhatisknownand
unknown, it crosses borders, cultures, and centuries, it brings together the old and
known with the newly discovered. We find here a collection of particular percep-
tions that captivates us beyond the borders and boundaries because of its spiritual
significance. We find stories of oppression and standing firm, of great ideas that
transcendtimesandcontinents,celebratingthepowerofthinkingthatbreaksdown
boundariesandgivesrisetoacommunityeducatedbythethoughtsandideasfrom
womenphilosophers,worldwideandinun-restrictedfashion.
October2021 RuthE.Hagengruber
CenterfortheHistoryofWomen
Philosophers
Paderborn, Germany
Contents
1 Introduction .................................................. 1
ChristineLopes,KatarinaRibeiroPeixoto,andPedroPricladnitzky
PartI Women,Voices,History
2 ANewRenaissance:TheHistoryofWomenPhilosophers
AcrossBoundariesandCultures ................................ 9
SarahHutton
3 OlivaSabucoonEmbodiedAffects .............................. 19
ChristineLopes
4 ContextandSelf-RelatedReflection:ElisabethofBohemia’s
WaytoAddresstheMoralObjectiveness ........................ 33
KatarinaRibeiroPeixoto
5 SomeNotesontheConceptofMatterinCavendish ............... 53
JulianaAbuzagloEliasMartins
6 CavendishandtheOntologicalStatusofIndividualBodies ........ 61
PedroPricladnitzky
7 Spirit,Body,andPaininAnneConway ......................... 75
NataliaStrok
8 TheEclecticismofAnneConway ............................... 91
TeresaRodríguez
9 NotesonÉmilieDuChâtelet’sEpistemology:Experience
asaSourceofKnowledge ...................................... 101
MitieliSeixasdaSilva
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PartII Feminism,Silencing,andColonization
10 Pour ce que Femme Sui: Female Perspective
andArgumentationinChristinedePizan’sWritings ............. 123
AnaRiegerSchmidt
11 Conway and Spinoza on Individuals: Frameworks
foraFeministMetaphysics ..................................... 141
NastassjaPugliese
12 Sophie Charlotte: The Modern Woman and the Reason
oftheReason ................................................. 157
TessaMouraLacerda
13 RosaEgipcíacaandEstamira:TwoThinkersinaColonial
Society ....................................................... 169
FabianodeLemosBrittoandUlyssesPinheiro
Editors and Contributors
AbouttheEditors
ChristineLopeshasaPh.D.inPhilosophyfromBirkbeck,UniversityofLondon.
She obtained her MA and BA in Philosophy at the Federal University of Rio de
Janeiro(UFRJ,Brazil).ShehaslecturedinuniversitiesinEnglandandBrazil.Her
interestsarebothhistoricalandanalytical,andconcerntopicsinepistemology,meta-
physics, ethics, women in philosophy, gender theory, and Jewish philosophy. She
haslecturedinuniversitiesinBrazilandEngland,whereshelives.Lopesisanasso-
ciateresearcheratinternationalacademicinstitutionsandisthefounderoftheLater
GermanPhilosophyproject(https://latergermanphilosophy.com).
Katarina Ribeiro Peixoto is a researcher on early modern philosophy and post-
doctoralfellowatthePhilosophyDepartmentofStateUniversityofRiodeJaneiro
(UERJ), where she works on research on the problem of singular terms in The
Port-Royal Logic, supported by The Brazilian National Council for Research and
Development(CNPq).Sheisalsotheleadresearcherofaprojecttitled“Elisabeth
ofBohemia’sThought:IntentionalityandresponsibilityinElisabethofBohemia’s
Thought 2019–2020”, also supported CNPq. Peixoto was one of the organizers of
theFirstInternationalConferenceofWomeninTheHistoryofPhilosophy,heldat
UERJ in 17–20 June 2019. For further work by Peixoto, please see: https://philpe
ople.org/profiles/katarina-peixoto.
PedroPricladnitzkyholdsapostdoctoralfellowshipattheStateUniversityofRio
deJaneiro(UERJ-CAPES/PRINT)andisanassociateresearcherattheUniversityof
WesternParaná(UNIOESTE).HeobtainedhisPh.D.,MA,andBAinPhilosophyat
theFederalUniversityofRioGrandedoSul(UFRGS).Hepreviouslytaughtphilos-
ophyattheStateUniversityofMaringá(UEM).Hisresearchfocusesonseventeenth-
centuryphilosophyandisconcernedprimarilywithtopicsonmetaphysicsandtheir
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