Reading group sessions spring 2025

12 February: Sabrina Ebbersmeyer

Text: Karen Detlefsen and Lisa Shapiro ‘Introduction’ + Karen Detlefsen ‘Method, Genre, and the Scope of Philosophy’. The Routledge Handbook of Women and Early Modern European Philosophy, edited by Karen Detlefsen and Lisa Shapiro. Routledge, pp. 1-9 + 41-56.

12 March: Martin Arndal

Text: ‘Richard Rorty – ‘The Historiography of Philosophy: Four Genres’. Philosophy in History, edited by Richard Rorty, Jerome Schneewind, and Quintin Skinner. Cambridge University Press, 1984, pp. 49-76.

2 April: Irina Hron

Text: Beatrijs Vanacker and Lieke van Deinsen – ‘Portraying Female Intellectual Authority: An Introduction’. Portraits and Poses: Female Intellectual Authority, Agency and Authorship in Early Modern Europe, edited by Beatrijs Vanacker and Lieke van Deinsen. Leuven University Press, 2022, pp. 7-26.

7 May: Bodil Hvass Kjems

Text: Penelope Deutscher – ‘Introduction: Feminist Philosophy and Constitutive Instability’ + Jean-Jacques Rousseau and the Inconstancy of Woman’. Yielding Gender: Feminism, Deconstruction, and the History of Philosophy. Routledge, pp. 1-10 + 89-111.