Center for the History of Women Philosophers and Scientists

The Center for the History of Women Philosophers and Scientists, Center HWPS for short, is a project at Paderborn University, Germany, that is dedicated to the research on women philosophers and scientists in the history of philosophy.

Director of the project is Ruth Hagengruber. The Center was inaugurated on October 24, 2016 at Paderborn University and is the first of its kind in Europe.[1] Research areas are women in early phenomenology like Edith Stein, Gerda Walther and Hedwig Conrad-Martius and women in the early European Enlightenment like Luise Gottsched and Émilie Du Châtelet. Moreover, the Center provides an online encyclopedia of concepts by women philosophers and organizes conferences, summer schools and colloquia.[2] It also awards the Elizabeth of Bohemia Prize.[3]

Projects

ECC

The Encyclopedia of Concise Concepts by Women Philosophers, ECC for short, is a free online encyclopedia that is based on concepts from the works of women philosophers. Each entry explains a philosophical concept and how it is developed in the writings of a certain female philosopher. The first articles were published in 2018 and the ECC is continuously expanded by international researchers. The entries need to pass a peer-review before publication and editors-in-chief are Ruth Hagengruber and Mary Ellen Waithe.[4]

Directory

The Directory of Women Philosophers is an online resource for research on the history of women philosophers. It provides a list of women philosophers from antiquity to present that is expanded continuously with new material. Each entry in the Directory contains biographical as well as bibliographical data, including the name, date of birth and death, any spouses or children of each philosopher as well as primary, secondary and online sources.

Conversations with Diotima

The project Conversations with Diotima is a talk format produced by the Center HWPS that gives unconventional insights into the history of women philosophers. Its name refers to the instruction of Socrates by Diotima in Plato's dialogue Symposium. Therefore, the videos are conducted like interviews between the team of the Center and experts for different women philosophers about their fields of expertise. The Conversations are published on the video platform YouTube.[5]

Research areas

Women in Early Phenomenology

The research area Women in the Early Phenomenology is a project of the Center for the History of Women Philosophers and Scientists that deals with women in the early movement of phenomenology. It focuses on Gerda Walther, Edith Stein and Hedwig Conrad-Martius who contributed considerably to the development of phenomenology as a philosophical discipline. Part of the research is the transcription and translation of previously unreleased manuscripts by Gerda Walther and Hedwig Conrad-Martius their preparation for publication.[6]

Projects on Émilie Du Châtelet

Émilie du Châtelet was an important French philosopher, physicist and mathematician during the early Enlightenment. The project Du Châtelet's Foundations of Physics at the Center for the History of Women Philosophers aims to present an online reading guide to help students, teachers and researchers navigate through Du Châtelet’s Foundations of Physics, or Institutions de physique (1740/42).[7]

The research area Émilie Du Châtelet between Leibniz and Kant researches the role of Émilie Du Châtelet as an intermediator between the theories of Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz and Immanuel Kant. The project was part of the international Libori Summer School 2018.[8]

The research area The St Petersburg Manuscripts is a cooperation of the Center for the History of Women Philosophers with the National Library of Russia in St Petersburg. Together, they published the first digital and the first historical-critical edition of Émilie du Châtelet’s previously unreleased manuscripts from the Voltaire collection at the National Library of Russia in 2020.[9]

References
  1. "Erstes internationales Center "History of Women Philosophers and Scientists" eröffnet – NRW fördert das Projekt mit 1,3 Millionen Euro". Uni Paderborn (in German). Retrieved 2019-02-28.
  2. "History of Women Philosophers and Scientists". Retrieved 2019-02-28.
  3. "Erster Preis zu Ehren einer Philosophin: Prof. Dr. Ulrike Detmers stiftet Philosophinnen-Preis zum 400. Geburtstag von Elisabeth von Böhmen Herford an das Center for the History of Women Philosophers and Scientists der Universität Paderborn". Uni Paderborn. Retrieved 2019-02-28.
  4. "Encyclopedia of Concise Concepts by Women Philosophers - History Of Women Philosophers". historyofwomenphilosophers.org. Retrieved 2019-02-28.
  5. "Conversations with Diotima - YouTube". YouTube. Retrieved 2019-02-28.
  6. "Women in Early Phenomenology - History of Women Philosophers and Scientists". Retrieved 2019-02-28.
  7. "Du Châtelet's Foundations of Physics - History of Women Philosophers and Scientists". Retrieved 2019-02-28.
  8. "Emilie Du Châtelet between Leibniz and Kant - History of Women Philosophers and Scientists". Retrieved 2019-02-28.
  9. "The St. Petersburg Manuscripts - History of Women Philosophers and Scientists". Retrieved 2019-02-28.
  • Website of the Center for the History of Women Philosophers and Scientists
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