Women in the History of Philosophy and Sciences 13 Christine Lopes Katarina Ribeiro Peixoto Pedro Pricladnitzky   Editors Latin American Perspectives on Women Philosophers in Modern History Women in the History of Philosophy and Sciences Volume 13 SeriesEditors RuthEdithHagengruber,DepartmentofHumanities,CenterfortheHistory ofWomenPhilosophers,PaderbornUniversity,Paderborn,Germany MaryEllenWaithe,ProfessorEmerita,DepartmentofPhilosophyandComparative Religion,ClevelandStateUniversity,Cleveland,OH,USA GianniPaganini,DepartmentofHumanities,UniversityofPiedmont,Vercelli,Italy EditorialBoard LukaBorsic,InstituteofPhilosophy,Zagreb,Croatia AntonioCalcagno,PhilosophyDept,King’sUniversityCollege,London,ON, Canada SabrinaEbbersmeyer,DepartmentofCommunication,UniversityofCopenhagen, KøbenhavnS,Denmark JohnConley,LoyolaUniversityMaryland,Baltimore,MD,USA KarenGreen,UniversityofMelbourne,StKilda,VIC,Australia SarahHutton,UniversityofYork,London,UK KaterinaKarpenko,Philosophy,KharkivNationalMedicalUniversity,Kharkiv, Ukraine KlausMainzer,TechnicalUniversityMunich,München,Germany RonnyMiron,Bar-IlanUniversity,GaneyTikva,Israel Marie-FrederiquePellegrin,UniversitéJeanMolinLyonIII,Lyon,France sandraPlastina,DptCultureEducation,UniversitàdellaCalabria,Arcavacatadi Rende,Italy DorothyRogers,MontclairStateUniversity,Montclair,NJ,USA SigridurThorgeirsdottir,DepartmentofPhilosophy,UniversityofIceland, Reykjavik,Iceland GeorgeN.Vlahakis,OpenHellenicUniversity,Athens,Greece ElizabethMinnich,AssociationofAmericanColleges&Universities,Charlotte, NC,USA PaolaRumore,DepartmentDiFilosofia,UniversitadegliStudidiTorino,Torino, Italy MariafrancaSpallanzani,UniversityofBologna,Bologna,Italy TamaraAlbertini,DepartmentofPhilosophy,UniversityofHawaiiatManoa, Honolulu,HI,USA DorotaDutsch,SantaBarbara,USA RomanaBassi,Padova,Italy MassimoMazzotti,Berkeley,CA,USA As the historical records prove, women have long been creating original contributions to philosophy. We have valuable writings from female philosophers from Antiquity and the Middle Ages, and a continuous tradition from the Renaissancetotoday.Thehistoryofwomenphilosophersthusstretchesbackasfar as the history of philosophy itself. The presence as well as the absence of women philosophersthroughoutthecourseofhistoryparallelsthehistoryofphilosophyas awhole. Edith Stein, Hannah Arendt and Simone de Beauvoir, the most famous representatives of this tradition in the twentieth century, did not appear form nowhere. They stand,sotospeak,ontheshoulders ofthefemaletitanswhocame beforethem. TheseriesWomenPhilosophersandScientistspublishedbySpringerisofinterest notonlytotheinternationalphilosophycommunity,butalsoforscholarsinhistory ofscienceandmathematics,thehistoryofideas,andinwomen’sstudies. Moreinformationaboutthisseriesathttps://link.springer.com/bookseries/15896 · · Christine Lopes Katarina Ribeiro Peixoto Pedro Pricladnitzky Editors Latin American Perspectives on Women Philosophers in Modern History Editors ChristineLopes KatarinaRibeiroPeixoto JewishAcademy(AJ)–SãoPaulo StateUniversityofRiodeJaneiro(UERJ) Southampton,UnitedKingdom RiodeJaneiro,Brazil PedroPricladnitzky StateUniversityofWesternParaná (UNIOESTE) Paraná,Brazil StateUniversityofRiodeJaneiro(UERJ) RiodeJaneiro,Brazil ISSN 2523-8760 ISSN 2523-8779 (electronic) WomenintheHistoryofPhilosophyandSciences ISBN 978-3-031-00287-8 ISBN 978-3-031-00288-5 (eBook) https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-00288-5 ©TheEditor(s)(ifapplicable)andTheAuthor(s),underexclusivelicensetoSpringerNature SwitzerlandAG2022 Thisworkissubjecttocopyright.AllrightsaresolelyandexclusivelylicensedbythePublisher,whether thewholeorpartofthematerialisconcerned,specificallytherightsoftranslation,reprinting,reuse ofillustrations,recitation,broadcasting,reproductiononmicrofilmsorinanyotherphysicalway,and transmissionorinformationstorageandretrieval,electronicadaptation,computersoftware,orbysimilar ordissimilarmethodologynowknownorhereafterdeveloped. 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ThisSpringerimprintispublishedbytheregisteredcompanySpringerNatureSwitzerlandAG Theregisteredcompanyaddressis:Gewerbestrasse11,6330Cham,Switzerland Foreword BeyondtheCenturies,Culture,andotherBoundaries:Why westudytheHistoryofWomenPhilosophersandScientists In 2018, for the occasion of the four hundredth birthday celebration of Elisabeth ofBohemia,ayoungBrazilianresearcher,Dr.KatarinaRibeiroPeixotojoinedthe CelebratoryConferenceorganizedbytheCenterfortheHistoryofWomenPhiloso- phers in Paderborn, Germany. Her visit was the first step to linking international communitiesandtheirresearchintoreconstructingtheculturalheritageofwomen philosophers.Threeyearslater,anintensivecooperationisinprocess,newperspec- tiveshaveopened,andthisimportantvolumehasbeenaccomplished:LatinAmerican PerspectivesonWomenPhilosophersinModernHistory. Themoodforthisnewbeginningwasenthusiastic,thoughoneimportantquestion demandedourattention:ShouldthereadingofwomenphilosophersintheEuropean tradition—though long excluded—become an important topic in the rewriting of the history of philosophy, or should scholars confine themselves to the discovery and reawakening of the thoughts of women philosophers in their own particular cultural context? Should the texts of these European women philosophers be read andre-reflected,orhadthistobeseenasare-colonializationactofWesternthought, yetonlyindisguise?Howisitpossibletoadvance mutualcooperationinorderto retrieve our common women philosophers’ tradition, including the European and LatinAmericanone,yetnotconfinedtothese? IsreadingandlearningfromwomenphilosopherswiththeirWesternbackground intertwined with the suppressive history of suprematism? Yes, and no. Of course, womenwhoparticipatedinthatpolicywerepartofit,atleastinthesenseofbeing partoftheunderlyingstructures.Womenphilosophersareasresponsibleasanyone else,theyhavetobeinvestigated,intheirownright,astowhichsidetheywereon, whatphilosophytheyprovidedtodescribetheirworld,thekindofnormstheydrafted andwhichideastheydiscoveredtoestablishphilosophyandscientificthinking. v vi Foreword Should these women who are not part of one’s own cultural tradition become excluded? Is it an alternative to confine one’s own ideas and to root intellectual powerinanationalistand/orgroupworld? Ifwedidso,wewoulddelimitourworldofideasthatweareableotherwiseto sharewithpeoplefromallovertheworld(andwhichistheonlymeansthatallows ustocrossbordersandgobeyondboundaries)andsacrificethisideainfavourofthe placewhereweourselveshappentobeborn.Weareallcitizensoftheworld,atleast united in spirit, and therein lies the opportunity to create unity across borders and breakchains.Greatideasdonotbelongtoanycountry.Wesharespiritualinsightsthat neverbecomelessinsharing;onthecontrary,spiritshavethesecretofmultiplying bydivision. We all need to relearn and appreciate the fruitfulness of spiritual sharing. This bookisanexampleofdoingso.Insharingandbringingtogetherwhatisknownand unknown, it crosses borders, cultures, and centuries, it brings together the old and known with the newly discovered. We find here a collection of particular percep- tions that captivates us beyond the borders and boundaries because of its spiritual significance. We find stories of oppression and standing firm, of great ideas that transcendtimesandcontinents,celebratingthepowerofthinkingthatbreaksdown boundariesandgivesrisetoacommunityeducatedbythethoughtsandideasfrom womenphilosophers,worldwideandinun-restrictedfashion. October2021 RuthE.Hagengruber CenterfortheHistoryofWomen Philosophers Paderborn, Germany Contents 1 Introduction .................................................. 1 ChristineLopes,KatarinaRibeiroPeixoto,andPedroPricladnitzky PartI Women,Voices,History 2 ANewRenaissance:TheHistoryofWomenPhilosophers AcrossBoundariesandCultures ................................ 9 SarahHutton 3 OlivaSabucoonEmbodiedAffects .............................. 19 ChristineLopes 4 ContextandSelf-RelatedReflection:ElisabethofBohemia’s WaytoAddresstheMoralObjectiveness ........................ 33 KatarinaRibeiroPeixoto 5 SomeNotesontheConceptofMatterinCavendish ............... 53 JulianaAbuzagloEliasMartins 6 CavendishandtheOntologicalStatusofIndividualBodies ........ 61 PedroPricladnitzky 7 Spirit,Body,andPaininAnneConway ......................... 75 NataliaStrok 8 TheEclecticismofAnneConway ............................... 91 TeresaRodríguez 9 NotesonÉmilieDuChâtelet’sEpistemology:Experience asaSourceofKnowledge ...................................... 101 MitieliSeixasdaSilva vii viii Contents PartII Feminism,Silencing,andColonization 10 Pour ce que Femme Sui: Female Perspective andArgumentationinChristinedePizan’sWritings ............. 123 AnaRiegerSchmidt 11 Conway and Spinoza on Individuals: Frameworks foraFeministMetaphysics ..................................... 141 NastassjaPugliese 12 Sophie Charlotte: The Modern Woman and the Reason oftheReason ................................................. 157 TessaMouraLacerda 13 RosaEgipcíacaandEstamira:TwoThinkersinaColonial Society ....................................................... 169 FabianodeLemosBrittoandUlyssesPinheiro Editors and Contributors AbouttheEditors ChristineLopeshasaPh.D.inPhilosophyfromBirkbeck,UniversityofLondon. She obtained her MA and BA in Philosophy at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro(UFRJ,Brazil).ShehaslecturedinuniversitiesinEnglandandBrazil.Her interestsarebothhistoricalandanalytical,andconcerntopicsinepistemology,meta- physics, ethics, women in philosophy, gender theory, and Jewish philosophy. She haslecturedinuniversitiesinBrazilandEngland,whereshelives.Lopesisanasso- ciateresearcheratinternationalacademicinstitutionsandisthefounderoftheLater GermanPhilosophyproject(https://latergermanphilosophy.com). Katarina Ribeiro Peixoto is a researcher on early modern philosophy and post- doctoralfellowatthePhilosophyDepartmentofStateUniversityofRiodeJaneiro (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).Sheisalsotheleadresearcherofaprojecttitled“Elisabeth ofBohemia’sThought:IntentionalityandresponsibilityinElisabethofBohemia’s Thought 2019–2020”, also supported CNPq. Peixoto was one of the organizers of theFirstInternationalConferenceofWomeninTheHistoryofPhilosophy,heldat UERJ in 17–20 June 2019. For further work by Peixoto, please see: https://philpe ople.org/profiles/katarina-peixoto. PedroPricladnitzkyholdsapostdoctoralfellowshipattheStateUniversityofRio deJaneiro(UERJ-CAPES/PRINT)andisanassociateresearcherattheUniversityof WesternParaná(UNIOESTE).HeobtainedhisPh.D.,MA,andBAinPhilosophyat theFederalUniversityofRioGrandedoSul(UFRGS).Hepreviouslytaughtphilos- ophyattheStateUniversityofMaringá(UEM).Hisresearchfocusesonseventeenth- centuryphilosophyandisconcernedprimarilywithtopicsonmetaphysicsandtheir ix