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WHAT DOES A PHILOSOPHER LOOK LIKE? WOMEN IN THE HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 October 2021

Hannah Marije Altorf
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Abstract

If you ask people ‘What does a philosopher look like?’, their first response is often an image of an elderly man with a beard. This image can be explained by looking at philosophy's history, which has been dominated by a very select group of men. Yet, in recent years it has become obvious that the history of philosophy is not as monochrome as is often assumed. In this article, I consider how the inclusion of different voices in the history of philosophy should impel us to rethink the ways in which the history of philosophy is told.

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Think , Volume 20 , Issue 59 , Autumn 2021 , pp. 95 - 102
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Copyright © The Royal Institute of Philosophy, 2021

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