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The Other Philosophy Club: America's First Academic Women Philosophers

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 March 2020

Dorothy Rogers
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Abstract

Recent research on women philosophers has led to more discussion of the merits of many previously forgotten women in the past several years. Yet due to the fact that a thinker's significance and influence are historical phenomena, women remain relatively absent in “mainstream” discussions of philosophy. This paper focuses on several successful academic women in American philosophy and takes notice of how they succeeded in their own era. Special attention is given to three important academic women philosophers: Mary Whiton Calkins, Ellen Bliss Talbot, and Marietta Kies.

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Hypatia , Volume 24 , Issue 2 , Spring 2009 , pp. 164 - 185
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Copyright © 2009 by Dorothy Rogers

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