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Women philosophers in nineteenth-century Britain / Alison Stone.

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"Many women wrote philosophy in nineteenth-century Britain, and they wrote across the full range of philosophical topics. Yet these important women thinkers have been left out of the philosophical canon and many of them are barely known today. This book puts them back on the map. The book intro...

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author: Stone, Alison, 1972- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2023.
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Women philosophers > Great Britain > History > 19th century.
Women philosophers > Great Britain > Biography.
Women philosophers
Great Britain
1800-1899
Biographies
History
Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • Halftitle page
  • Title page
  • Copyright page
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgements
  • Timeline
  • Abbreviations
  • Mary Shepherd
  • Harriet Martineau
  • Ada Lovelace
  • George Eliot
  • Frances Power Cobbe
  • Helena Petrovna Blavatsky
  • Julia Wedgwood
  • Victoria Welby
  • Arabella Buckley
  • Annie Besant
  • Vernon Lee
  • Constance Naden
  • Digital And Physical Archives
  • Introduction
  • I.1 What This Book Is About
  • I.2 Approach and Methodology
  • I.3 Chapter Outline
  • I.4 The Social and Historical Context of these Women Philosophers
  • 1. Women's Constrained Philosophical Participation
  • 1.1 Introduction
  • 1.2 Constraints, Print Culture, and Generalist Philosophy
  • 1.3 Women's Participation Strategies
  • 1.4 Anonymity and Signature in Nineteenth-Century British Writing
  • 1.5 How Nineteenth-Century Women Became Forgotten
  • 1.6 Two Case Studies: Cobbe and Blavatsky
  • 1.7 Methodological Recommendations
  • 2. Naturalism
  • 2.1 Introduction
  • 2.2 Shepherd, Causation, and Anti-Naturalism
  • 2.3 Martineau's Earlier Philosophy: Moralist Necessarianism
  • 2.4 Martineau's Naturalism in Letters on the Laws of Man's Nature and Development
  • 2.5 Cobbe's Anti-Naturalist Moral Theory
  • 2.6 Welby, Meaning, and Anti-Naturalism
  • 2.7 The Trajectory of the Debate about Naturalism
  • 3. Philosophy of Mind
  • 3.1 Introduction
  • 3.2 Lovelace and the Thinking Machine
  • 3.3 Interlude: Carpenter
  • 3.4 Cobbe on Thinking Brain versus Conscious Self
  • 3.5 Naden and Hylo-Idealism
  • 3.6 Blavatsky and Besant: Explaining the Mind
  • 3.7 The Dialectical Emergence of these Accounts of the Mind
  • 4. The Meaning of Evolution
  • 4.1 Introduction
  • 4.2 Wedgwood: Reconciling Evolution with Christianity
  • 4.3 Cobbe on the Moral Dangers of Darwinism
  • 4.4 Buckley Against Cobbe
  • 4.5 Buckley's Moral and Religious Evolutionism
  • 4.6 Wedgwood's Later Reassessment
  • 5. Religion and Morality
  • 5.1 Introduction
  • 5.2 Martineau and the Exterior Point of View
  • 5.3 Eliot: Literature and the Expansion of Sympathy
  • 5.4 Cobbe's Case Against Atheism
  • 5.5 The Lee-Cobbe Debate
  • 5.6 The Besant-Cobbe Debate
  • 5.7 Evaluation and Comparison
  • 6. Progress in History
  • 6.1 Introduction
  • 6.2 Martineau and Eastern Life
  • 6.3 Cobbe on the World Religious Progression
  • 6.4 Wedgwood and The Moral Ideal
  • 6.5 Blavatsky and Spiritual Evolution
  • 6.6 Comparisons and Colonialism
  • Conclusion
  • Bibliography
  • Index.

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