Dear all,
Just to clarify, today's talk will take place from 5-6pm in the Barbara White Room at Newnham College. Further details about the venue, speaker and talk below. You are all welcome to join us for the Easter dinner afterwards. Best wishes, Magali and Ellisif On 2016-03-23 15:09, WiP wrote: > Dear all, > > This is a reminder that we are welcoming Jacqueline Broad tomorrow on > the topic: "Cartesian Feminism in the Seventeenth Century: François > Poulain de la Barre and Mary Astell". You are all very welcome, as > always. > > Abstract: > This paper will discuss the impact of Cartesian epistemological, > metaphysical, and ethical ideas on the feminist arguments of François > Poulain de la Barre (1647-1723) and Mary Astell (1666-1731). In the > scholarly literature to date, it is a common view that Descartes' method > of doubt and his concept of the thinking self provided significant > inspiration for early modern feminists. On the one hand, it is said, his > radical method led these early feminists to challenge male authority, > prejudice, and custom; on the other, his metaphysics of the self > seemingly leant support to the idea that the human mind 'has no sex'. In > this discussion, however, I propose to highlight other influential > aspects of Cartesian philosophy for feminist thought, such as Descartes' > views concerning freedom, error, and judgment, his philosophy of the > passions, and his ethical ideas concerning virtue. I will argue that it > is an over-simplification to say that Poulain and Astell's core feminist > insights owe their origins to the Cartesian method of doubt or to the > idea that 'the mind has no sex'. > > About the speaker: > Dr. Jacqui Broad is an Associate Professor and Australian Research > Council Future Fellow at Monash University. Shespecializes in early > modern philosophy (c. 1650-1750), with a particular focus on women > philosophers of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. She is author > of several seminal books on the topic, including: The Philosophy of Mary > Astell: An Early Modern Theory of Virtue (OUP, 2015); Women Philosophers > of the Seventeenth Century (CUP, 2002); A History of Women's Political > Thought in Europe, 1400-1700 (with Karen Green; CUP, 2009), and a modern > edition of Astell's The Christian Religion (CRRS & Iter, 2013). She is > currently organising the 16th Symposium of the International Association > of Women Philosophers (IAPh), to be held at Monash Caulfield, Melbourne, > 7-10 July 2016. > > About the venue: > The Barbara White Room is wheelchair accessible, either from Newnham > Walk or from Fawcett car park (nr. 12 on the map > http://www.newn.cam.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/college_map_08-6.pdf > [1]), > with no steps but a few doors that need to be opened manually. There is > padded seating. There is blue badge parking nearby, at Sidgwick site > opposite the porter's lodge, which is accessed by three steps. Parking > can be reserved at Newnham Walk by request in advance. A hearing loop > can be arranged by request in advance. There is a gender neutral > accessible toilet in a separate part of the buiding, but no other gender > neutral toilets. There is no bsl interpreter, or a designated quiet > space. You can contact us about access on [email protected] > > Best wishes, > > Ellisif and Magali > > _____________________________________________________ > To unsubscribe from the CamPhilEvents mailing list, > or change your membership options, please visit > the list information page: http://bit.ly/CamPhilEvents [2] > > List archive: http://bit.ly/CamPhilEventsArchive [3] > > Please note that CamPhilEvents doesn't accept email > attachments. See the list information page for further > details and suggested alternatives. -- Ellisif Wasmuth PhD candidate Faculty of Classics University of Cambridge Links: ------ [1] http://www.newn.cam.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/college_map_08-6.pdf [2] http://bit.ly/CamPhilEvents [3] http://bit.ly/CamPhilEventsArchive _____________________________________________________ To unsubscribe from the CamPhilEvents mailing list, or change your membership options, please visit the list information page: http://bit.ly/CamPhilEvents List archive: http://bit.ly/CamPhilEventsArchive Please note that CamPhilEvents doesn't accept email attachments. See the list information page for further details and suggested alternatives.
