Latin American Perspectives on Women Philosophers in Modern History

This book presents Latin American Perspectives on women philosophers, comprising selected articles from the First International Conference of Women in Modern Philosophy that took place in Rio de Janeiro City, Brazil, Latin America, in June of 2019. The conference brought together over twenty national, transnational, and international philosophers from seven countries, whose work combines historical and analytical insight to recover the philosophical legacy of women philosophers. Historical and analytical work on women’s philosophical thought constitute efforts to re-conceptualize what counts as philosophical knowledge and re-appraise the epistemic relevance of written material that women thinkers produced for most of history. This collection and the conference that gave origin to it are testimony to the enduring power of multinational and multicultural philosophical collaboration.

A New Renaissance: The History of Women Philosophers across Boundaries and Cultures.-Sophie-Charlotte, The Modern Woman and the Reason of Reason.- Rosa Egipcíaca and Estamira – Two Thinkers in Colonial Society.- Part II Women in the History of Modern Philosophy.- Pour ce que Femme Sui: Female Perspective and Argumentation in Christine de Pizan’s Writings.- Oliva Sabucco on Embodied Affects.- Context and Self-Related Reflection: Elisabeth of Bohemia’s Way to Address the Moral Objectiveness.- Some Notes on the Concept of Matter in Cavendish.- Cavendish and the Ontological Status of Bodies.- Conway and Spinoza on Individuals: Frameworks for a Feminist Metaphysics.- Spirit, Body and Pain in Anne Conway.

Christine Lopes has a PhD in Philosophy from Birkbeck, University of London. She obtained her MA and BA in Philosophy at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ, Brazil). She has lectured in universities in England and Brazil. Her interests are both historical and analytical, and concern topics in epistemology, ethics, metaphysics, Kantian philosophies, women in philosophy, gender theory, and Jewish philosophy. She lives as an independent philosopher in England and is a research affiliate at the Laboratory of Politics, Behaviour, and Media at the Pontifical University of São Paulo (PUC-SP, Brazil) and a coordinator of the research group in Jewish Thought at the Jewish Academy of the Israeli Congregation of São Paulo (CIP). She is the founder of the Later German Philosophy project

Katarina Peixoto is a researcher on early modern philosophy and postdoctoral fellow at the Philosophy Department of State University of Rio de Janeiro (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). She is also the lead researcher of a project titled “Elisabeth of Bohemia’s Thought: Intentionality and responsibility in Elisabeth of Bohemia’s Thought 2019-2020,” also supported by CNPq. Peixoto was one of the organizers of the First International Conference on Women in The History of Philosophy, held at UERJ in 17th–20th of June of 2019.

Pedro Pricladnitzky holds a postdoctoral fellowship at the State University of Rio de Janeiro (UERJ-Capes/PRINT) and is an associate researcher at the University of Western Paraná (UNIOESTE). He obtained his PhD, MA, and BA in Philosophy at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS). He previously taught philosophy at the State University of Maringá (UEM). His research focuses on seventeenth-century philosophy and is concerned primarily with topicson metaphysics and their intersection with natural philosophy, philosophy of science, and philosophy of perception. He is particularly interested in theories of substance, the individuation of bodies, scientific reasoning in Descartes, and authors of Cartesian influence.