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On the Consolation of Philosophy is laid out as follows: Book I: Boethius laments his imprisonment before he is visited by Philosophy, personified as a woman. Book II: Philosophy illustrates the capricious nature of Fate by discussing the "wheel of Fortune"; she further argues that true happiness lies in the pursuit of wisdom.
^C – For more information about this person's contribution to philosophy see her entry in The Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy. Cambridge University Press; 1999. ISBN 0-521-63722-8 ^D1 – For more information about this person's contribution to philosophy see her entry in Jane Duran's Eight Women Philosophers: Theory Politics and Feminism ...
Victoria, Lady Welby (1837–1912) was a self-educated English philosopher of language. ... Feminism and History of Philosophy (Oxford Readings in Feminism), ...
Throughout her work on natural philosophy, Margaret Cavendish defends the belief that all nature is composed of free, self-moving, rational matter. [34] Eileen O'Neill provides an overview of Cavendish's natural philosophy and its critical reception in her introduction to Observations upon Experimental Philosophy. [35]
From 1949–66, Warnock was a fellow and tutor in philosophy at St Hugh's College, Oxford. [7] [8] In addition to her husband Geoffrey Warnock, then a fellow of Magdalen College, her circle during this period included the philosophers Isaiah Berlin, Stuart Hampshire, David Pears and Peter Strawson, as well the authors Kingsley Amis and David Cecil. [6]
Anne Conway (also known as Viscountess Conway; née Finch; 14 December 1631 – 23 February 1679 [2]) was an English philosopher of the Enlightenment, whose work was in the tradition of the Cambridge Platonists.
Lady Mary Shepherd, (née Primrose; 31 December 1777 – 7 January 1847) was a Scottish philosopher [1] who published two philosophical books, one in 1824 and one in 1827. According to Robert Blakey , in her entry in his History of the Philosophy of the Mind , she exercised considerable influence over the Edinburgh philosophy of her day.
It emphasizes Hypatia's astronomical and mechanical studies rather than her philosophy, portraying her as "less Plato than Copernicus", [255] and emphasizes the restrictions imposed on women by the early Christian church, [258] including depictions of Hypatia being sexually assaulted by one of her father's Christian slaves, [259] and of Cyril ...