Workshop con Sarah HUTTON
Minds of their own Some women philosophers of the seventeenth century
Three workshops by Sarah Hutton (University of York, United Kingdom)
5-7 May 2025
Università degli Studi di Macerata
Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici
Via Garibaldi, 20
Aula S1, 10:00
The seventeenth century is regarded as one of transformational change in philosophy, science and political thought. But the contribution of women routinely ignored by historians and philosophers alike. These three workshops will introduce some of the women thinkers of the period and examine what they had to say about such topics as gender equality, education, human nature and natural philosophy, against a background of social and cultural conditions which belittled female intellectual capacities and restricted women’s access to education. We will discuss the ideas of Marie de Gournay, Anna Maria van Schurmann, Margaret Cavendish, Anne Conway and Giuseppina Barbapiccola – all of them women with minds of their own, who were not afraid to express their ideas despite the social, cultural and educational disadvantages they faced as women.
1 Liberating the female mind: Marie de Gournay, Anna Maria van Schurman and Giuseppina Barbapiccola
2 Thinking outside the box: the natural philosophy of Margaret Cavendish
3 Anne Conway: entangled life and the boundaries of the human
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