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#women-in-philosophy
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When Sor Juana protests her own ignorance, is that rhetoric or argument, and does it matter?
I'm writing my dissertation on Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, and one question keeps returning. In 1691 she wrote the Respuesta a Sor Filotea de la Cruz, her reply to the Bishop of Puebla, who had published her critique of a…
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Reading group: the Elisabeth–Descartes letters of 1643, slowly
My dissertation is on Sor Juana, and one of the things that work keeps teaching me is how much philosophy by women survives only in letters, prefaces and replies. So I would like to read the most famous case in early modern…
Started by Valentina Ríos6 replies173 views