December 2022 noticed the publication of the primary two problems with the Journal of the History of Women Philosophers and Scientists (JHWP).
JHWP “is the world’s first journal devoted to restoring and discussing the historical past of the texts written by and about girls philosophers. The Journal of the Historical past of Ladies Philosophers and Scientists seeks to combine girls’s mental heritage into the canon of philosophy, the humanities, and the pure and social sciences… The time interval investigated by articles within the Journal of the Historical past of Ladies Philosophers and Scientists ranges from 2200 BCE to the twentieth century CE in each the Western and non-Western world.”
Its founders and editors are Ruth Edith Hagengruber (Paderborn) and Mary Ellen Waithe (Cleveland State, emerita).
The journal, which makes use of double-anonymous peer evaluate, publishes two points per yr, with every concern specializing in a selected theme in order that “every concern is a collected anthology of continuous curiosity.”
Whereas the journal isn’t solely open-access, a number of items are unpaywalled, and the writer is offering people with free entry to the entire journal’s content material via the tip of 2024 with using a token (defined here).
Of their foreword to Issue 1, Quantity 1, Professors Hagengruber and Waithe write:
Anybody who studied philosophy with open eyes couldn’t fail to see that from the very starting, girls philosophers have had an necessary operate within the historical past of philosophy. How may we philosophize with out beginning with Plato and Socrates, and ignoring Socrates’ feminine lecturers? And but this has been the truth within the establishments of philosophy educating, in universities, faculties and academies, worldwide.
Philosophy and its traditions have been taught solely partially. It was as if Newton had solely measured each different planet to find out the dynamics of dependencies. How was it attainable that so many well-known names had been talked about however not taught? Theano, Diotima, Aspasia, Hildegard of Bingen, Teresa of Avila, Margaret Cavendish, Elizabeth of Bohemia, Anne Conway, Émilie Du Châtelet, Olympe de Gouges, Mary Wollstonecraft, and Harriet Taylor Mill by no means utterly disappeared, despite the fact that they’d been eradicated from the patriarchal canon of institutional educating. Early within the Eighties Mary Ellen Waithe began to convey these concepts and their authors collectively in a four-volume set, compiling a lot of the data that was accessible earlier than the creation of the web. Waithe documented the biased philosophical strategy to philosophy’s historical past. Whereas many nice philosophers didn’t care to call the ladies by whom they’d been influenced, Plato, Descartes, Leibniz, Kant and Mill did title them, but even in the present day, some ignore that actuality. Not all philosophers are proper. The historical past of philosophy itself must be critically examined. Probably the most necessary components contributing to rewriting the historical past of philosophy in a extra dependable manner is to herald girls’s concepts. That can exhibit the epistemological achieve of works which have lengthy been suppressed or ignored. No lack of data is sweet.
Whereas the concepts of girls have been offered individually and reduce off from the canon for a lot of many years, now could be the time to convey it collectively, to rewrite a historical past of philosophy that’s extra full than it has been to this point. Working collectively for now and the long run, we take part within the creation of anthologies, translations, encyclopedias, conferences, symposia, analysis applications and curricula dedicated to reclaiming, restoring and reconsidering what girls’s contributions have been to our self-discipline.
Philosophy is the mom of all theoretical tutorial disciplines. Accordingly, the web we forged via this, the Journal of the Historical past of Ladies Philosophers and Scientists, is essentially broad. We welcome contributions on the entire historical past of philosophy, from antiquity to the current day, and we additionally welcome discussions on girls philosophers who don’t belong to the Western custom of philosophy.
The sphere of philosophical disciplines right here at stake contains all conventional fields that belong to the sector of philosophical self-discipline practiced in the present day, ethics, metaphysics, epistemology, anthropology, logic, philosophy of language, philosophy of science, arithmetic, philosophy of faith, and so forth. Right here, nonetheless, we stretch even additional. Exactly as a result of girls have usually and for thus lengthy been excluded from tutorial philosophy, and consequently have printed in and had been contributors to associated sciences, their texts and analyses discover their area right here. The Journal of the Historical past of Ladies Philosophers and Scientists offers a scholarly venue for discussing works by girls who’ve made vital contributions to what’s now the tutorial self-discipline of philosophy in addition to to the theoretical foundations of different disciplines, together with the bodily sciences, arithmetic, social sciences, drugs, economics, faith, and so forth. We’re the venue for analyzing the concepts of scientists corresponding to Ada Lovelace or Grete Henry-Hermann, and theories developed by theorists from Mary Sommerville to Florence Nightingale, from Hildegard of Bingen to Oliva Sabuco, from Hazel Kirk to Charlotte Perkins-Gilman. We welcome additionally articles on philosophy of faith starting from Rabiy’a al advert’Wadia to Julian of Norwich, and from ‘A’isha al-Ba’uniyyah to Teresa of Avila. We additionally welcome articles about girls’s contributions to philosophy of regulation and jurisprudence. Articles about aesthetic principle as articulated by girls within the high quality arts and performing arts are likewise desired. Though pedagogical materials doesn’t match the framework of this journal, articles about academic theories developed by girls, for instance, the academic theories of Maria Montessori and Mary Everest Boole are inside our scope.
You’ll be able to study extra in regards to the journal here.
