Feminist History of Philosophy: The Recovery and Evaluation of Women's Philosophical Thought

About the Contributors.- Introduction; Eileen O'Neill .- I. The History of Metaphysics, Epistemology and Natural Philosophy .- 1. The Methodological Principles Behind Anne Conway's Principles ; Christia Mercer .- 2. Sensible and rational knowledge in the epistemological thought of Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz; Laura Benítez Grobet .- 3. Emilie du Ch
telet on the Use of Hypothesis and Metaphysics in Science; Karen Detlefsen .- 4. Lady Mary Shepherd on Causality and Causal Reasoning; Martha Brandt Bolton .- II. The History of Moral Philosophy and Moral Psychology, and Philosophy of Mind .- 5. Princess Elisabeth of Bohemia on the Cartesian Mind: Interaction, Happiness, Freedom; Tad M. Schmaltz .- 6. Amour, Ambition and Amitié : Marie Thiroux D'Arconville on Passion and Virtue; Lisa Shapiro .- 7. Simone de Beauvoir and Madeleine de Scudéry on the Self-Other Dialectic; Nancy Bauer .- 8. Sophie de Grouchy, Marquise de Condorcet: Wisdom and Reform between Reason and Feeling; Eric Schliesser .- 9. George Eliot: Literature as Experimental Philosophy; Moira Gatens .- III: The History of Feminist Social and Political Philosophy .- 10. Virtue Ethics and the Origins of Feminism: the Case of Christine de Pizan; Karen Green .- 11. Marie de Gournay and Aristotle; Marguerite Deslauriers .- 12. Astell and the History of Political Philosophy; Patricia Springborg .- 13. Damaris Cudworth Masham: Toleration and Women's Education in Occasional Thoughts ; Jacqueline Broad .- 14. Taking Liberty: Politics and Feminism in Margaret Cavendish and Catharine Macaulay; Sarah Hutton .- 15. Mary Wollstonecraft's Contributions to Modern Political Philosophy; Eileen Hunt Botting .- Bibliography.- Index.