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 Châtelet 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.