We're very excited that we will be able to extend the Partnership Development project through a Partnership Grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC). We'll be updating this website soon to reflect the new project, but in the meantime here is an overview.
Our overall goal is to change the standards of practice in philosophy to enable it to become inclusive and diverse by both retrieving philosophical works of women and individuals from other marginalized groups across historical periods and sustaining the presence of these figures in the history of philosophy. The project requires collective action in partnership.
Our international partnership is comprised of 12 academic institutions, with co-investigators at each institution: Simon Fraser University (Lisa Shapiro, PI), McGill University (Marguerite Deslauriers), University of Western Ontario (Corey Dyck), University of Guelph (Patricia Sheridan), Duke University (Andrew Janiak), University of Pennsylvania (Karen Detlefsen), Columbia University (Christia Mercer), Monash University (Jacqueline Broad), University of Sydney (Dalia Nassar), Jyväskylä University (Martina Reuter), Université de Paris X-Nanterre (Anne-Lise Rey), Université de Lyon 3-Jean Moulin (Marie-Frédérique Pellegrin). We also have over 70 academic scholars and librarians as collaborators.
The project has an historical scope that includes the medieval period, the Renaissance, early modern period (17th and 18th centuries), and the 19th and early 20th centuries (up to 1940). We've identified four philosophical themes that will help structure the new narratives being developed. Three are familiar: metaphysics and epistemology; ethics, social, and political philosophy; and philosophy of mind and philosophy of education. The fourth is less familiar, but essential to achieving our goal of making philosophy more inclusive: the metaphilosophical issues of what counts as philosophy and what counts as a philosophical work.
Our specific objectives are to:
1. Develop new narratives in the history of philosophy from the medieval period through the early 20th century by recovering the work of women and other neglected thinkers, making salient a range of neglected themes, and, for the first time, fully and sustainably integrating women and other neglected figures into the history of philosophy.
2. Extend an international research network of scholars, students and academic institutions supporting research on women and other neglected thinkers of the past.
3. Build a network of open-access digital resources, supported by academic libraries, to aid future research along with the incorporation of findings into curriculum, and to preserve the diversity of our intellectual past.
4. Develop and shape research resources articulating new narratives both by launching an online open-access scholarly journal focused on neglected figures and themes, and by partnering with publishers to issue new scholarly editions and edited volumes of thematically unified essays.
5. Train a new generation of scholars to develop lines of inquiry on neglected figures in the history of philosophy.
6. Increase awareness amongst the general public of long-neglected aspects of our intellectual past through public talks, podcasts, blogposts, and interviews, as well as informing secondary school curriculum.
Our overall goal is to change the standards of practice in philosophy to enable it to become inclusive and diverse by both retrieving philosophical works of women and individuals from other marginalized groups across historical periods and sustaining the presence of these figures in the history of philosophy. The project requires collective action in partnership.
Our international partnership is comprised of 12 academic institutions, with co-investigators at each institution: Simon Fraser University (Lisa Shapiro, PI), McGill University (Marguerite Deslauriers), University of Western Ontario (Corey Dyck), University of Guelph (Patricia Sheridan), Duke University (Andrew Janiak), University of Pennsylvania (Karen Detlefsen), Columbia University (Christia Mercer), Monash University (Jacqueline Broad), University of Sydney (Dalia Nassar), Jyväskylä University (Martina Reuter), Université de Paris X-Nanterre (Anne-Lise Rey), Université de Lyon 3-Jean Moulin (Marie-Frédérique Pellegrin). We also have over 70 academic scholars and librarians as collaborators.
The project has an historical scope that includes the medieval period, the Renaissance, early modern period (17th and 18th centuries), and the 19th and early 20th centuries (up to 1940). We've identified four philosophical themes that will help structure the new narratives being developed. Three are familiar: metaphysics and epistemology; ethics, social, and political philosophy; and philosophy of mind and philosophy of education. The fourth is less familiar, but essential to achieving our goal of making philosophy more inclusive: the metaphilosophical issues of what counts as philosophy and what counts as a philosophical work.
Our specific objectives are to:
1. Develop new narratives in the history of philosophy from the medieval period through the early 20th century by recovering the work of women and other neglected thinkers, making salient a range of neglected themes, and, for the first time, fully and sustainably integrating women and other neglected figures into the history of philosophy.
2. Extend an international research network of scholars, students and academic institutions supporting research on women and other neglected thinkers of the past.
3. Build a network of open-access digital resources, supported by academic libraries, to aid future research along with the incorporation of findings into curriculum, and to preserve the diversity of our intellectual past.
4. Develop and shape research resources articulating new narratives both by launching an online open-access scholarly journal focused on neglected figures and themes, and by partnering with publishers to issue new scholarly editions and edited volumes of thematically unified essays.
5. Train a new generation of scholars to develop lines of inquiry on neglected figures in the history of philosophy.
6. Increase awareness amongst the general public of long-neglected aspects of our intellectual past through public talks, podcasts, blogposts, and interviews, as well as informing secondary school curriculum.
We are currently advertising for two 1-year postdoctoral fellow positions.