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.