CultPhil: Cultures of Philosophy: Women Writing Knowledge in Early Modern Europe

CultPhil：哲学文化：现代早期欧洲女性书写知识

• 批准号: EP/Y006372/1
• 负责人: Helena Taylor
• 金额: $ 161.86万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF EXETER
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2023 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=EP%2FY006372%2F1
• 关键词: CultPhil; Cultures; Philosophy; Women; Writing

Where are the women philosophers in the history of philosophy? This is not a new question, nor has it been left unaddressed; however, CultPhil proposes a new way of responding to it that will transform our understanding of the history of philosophy. Focussing on seventeenth-century Europe, the project investigates what I am calling 'cultures of philosophy' to produce a more inclusive, contextually-defined approach to women's philosophical writing from the period. Such cultures include genres not usually considered to be philosophical (such as periodicals, salon poetry, marginalia); the circulation and exchange of philosophical writing by women; transnational dynamics of authority and collectivity; and ideas about the identity of a female philosopher. Exploring these cultures will a) allow us to move beyond reliance on the philosophical treatise as the main principle for inclusion in the canon, and b) enable analysis of the sociological conditions of learning that were both restrictive and enabling for women writers. The project argues that those conditions-from education to the problem posed by the female intellectual-shaped both philosophical writing by women and the processes that have rendered that writing less visible. As part of the project's comparative approach, it will examine four case studies, France, England, Italy and the Dutch Republic, across three research strands. The first strand looks at 'Genres', and, to maximise analysis, concentrates on the sub-discipline of natural philosophy, the domain closest to science and most inaccessible to women. The second strand, 'Exchanges', takes a transnational approach to women's knowledge production and its historiography. The third strand, 'Identities', analyses the figure of the female philosopher. CultPhil aims to understand how sociological conditions inflected philosophical writing by women; to interrogate processes of historiographical invisibility; and to challenge the philosophical canon.

哲学史上的女哲学家在哪里？这不是一个新问题，也不是没有得到解决。然而，CultPhil 提出了一种新的回应方式，它将改变我们对哲学史的理解。该项目以 17 世纪的欧洲为重点，研究了我所说的“哲学文化”，以便为该时期的女性哲学写作提供一种更具包容性、根据语境定义的方法。这些文化包括通常不被认为是哲学的流派（例如期刊、沙龙诗歌、旁注）；妇女哲学著作的流通和交流；权威和集体的跨国动态；以及关于女性哲学家身份的想法。探索这些文化将a）让我们摆脱对哲学论文作为纳入经典的主要原则的依赖，b）能够分析对女性作家既限制又有利的学习社会学条件。该项目认为，这些条件——从教育到女性知识分子提出的问题——塑造了女性的哲学写作以及使这种写作变得不那么明显的过程。作为该项目比较方法的一部分，它将研究法国、英国、意大利和荷兰共和国三个研究领域的四个案例研究。第一条线着眼于“流派”，为了最大限度地进行分析，重点关注自然哲学的子学科，这是最接近科学但女性最难以进入的领域。第二部分“交流”采用跨国方法来研究女性的知识生产及其史学。第三条“身份”分析了女性哲学家的形象。 CultPhil 旨在了解社会条件如何影响女性的哲学写作；质疑史学隐形的过程；并挑战哲学经典。