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Michael Vazquez, PhD (UNC-Chapel Hill) “If all Men are born free, how is it that all Women are born slaves?” Reflections upon Marriage, 1706 Mary Astell (1666–1731) is sometimes called the first British feminist philosopher, but her place in the history of feminist thought is as fraught as that label. A prominent public intellectual who […]
The following “Behind the Scenes” post was written by Duke undergraduate and Project Vox team member Frank Mercer IV. This summer I traveled to England and France to explore the lived experiences of the philosophical figures I have researched on the Project Vox team, to place philosophical ideas in the context from which they emerged. […]
This post is part of our Revealing Voices blog series. I have been personally engaged with questions about God’s existence, the relationship between science and faith, and other concerns quite typical of contemporary philosophy of religion as far back as high school. But those questions sent me down a long philosophical rabbit hole that has led […]
On October 5, former team member Emilie Menzel will talk about her work with Project Vox as part of a panel of Duke researchers engaged in open scholarship. (If you’re in the area and you’d like to attend this in-person talk, more information and a registration link can be found at https://duke.libcal.com/event/11159787.) Emilie joined our […]
This post is part of our Revealing Voices blog series. This month we are pleased to share a post from a dancer incorporating philosophy into her ballet career. A year ago, at sixteen, I made the most significant decision of my relatively young life. Perhaps “decision” is a misnomer, or at least bears a different meaning […]
What happens when artificial intelligence hallucinates history for which there is very little representation? And might we imagine it differently? As Project Vox was gearing up to publish the entry on Nísia Floresta this spring, we struggled to find high-resolution images of the nineteenth-century Brazilian philosopher and advocate for indigenous and women’s rights, abolition, and […]
This post is part of our Revealing Voices blog series. My writing on Lydia Maria Child was inspired by the United States’ 2016 election. I had been writing on classical German philosophy, Hegel especially, for most of my career. But now, in the face of America’s new reality, I resolved to turn to my own country, and […]
Each year the Project Vox team prepares an annual report for our advisory board and key stakeholders at Duke University. In our efforts to share the processes of our work, we want to share sections of our report with our audience. We are excited to share the the tremendous efforts made by the student team […]
“The more ignorant a people are, the easier it is for an absolute government to exercise its unlimited power over them. It is based on this principle, so contrary to the progressive march of civilization, that most men oppose women’s access to the means of cultivating their spirits. However, this is a mistake that has […]
This post is part of our Revealing Voices blog series. There are two passions that drove me to philosophy. The first was a sense of wonder akin to what Aristotle described over two millennia ago in the opening line of his metaphysics. The second was a sense of horror. Let me explain. Ever since I was […]
We have a new teaching page and would like to your help filling it with helpful resources for instructors of philosophy. Please read more about our new teaching page here. Teaching materials are welcomed from individuals with relevant subject area expertise and teaching experience. We are organizing these materials into two categories: syllabi and teaching materials. We also […]
This post is part of our Revealing Voices blog series. It was, no doubt, the great questions of the post-Kantian tradition that got me hooked on philosophy: How could one read texts such as Kant’s First Critique, Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit, Nietzsche’s Genealogy of Morals, or Marx’s Capital and not want more? I definitely wanted more. I started working on […]
This semester, many of our undergraduate team members are registered for a course focusing on the research methods of Project Vox. Dana Hogan and Yasemin Altun led the students through a semester of learning the ways that we train students to write for a public audience, how to conduct research in philosophy, and how to collaborate on a […]
This semester, many of our undergraduate team members are registered for a course focusing on the research methods of Project Vox. Dana Hogan and Yasemin Altun are leading the students through a semester of learning the ways that we train students to write for a public audience, how to conduct research in philosophy, and how […]
Please enjoy a Behind the Scenes post that provides the story of two undergraduate researchers working to create our first network visualization. Please watch the video below where they explain their process. Here is how the story begins: Duke Kunshan University students Karen Nielsen, majoring in philosophy, and Junyi Tao, majoring in data science, join […]
This post addresses our revised Teaching Page by Emilie Menzel, Teaching Resources Analyst. We are delighted to announce the results of what has been a year long endeavor: assessing and updating the teaching resources page on our Project Vox website. Project Vox has supported the collection and publication of philosophy course syllabi for nearly two […]
This post, authored by Yasemin Altun, is part of our Behind the Scenes blog series. Allow me, briefly, to judge a website by its cover. Type to the front page of projectvox.org and a carrousel of images immediately fills your screen. Women of varied gazes and guises face you for a moment, before dissolving into the […]
Project Vox is comprised of undergraduates, graduate students, postdoctoral researchers, faculty, staff, and community members. With such an array of contributors, our team has developed formalized roles for project management while maintaining flexibility to accommodate different forms of participation and levels of commitment. This post is written from my perspective as Research Lead, a role […]
Over the past two and a half years, I have participated in Project Vox’s research team as a volunteer, a student, and ultimately as Research Lead, a formalized role which involves mentorship and management of the research team. As a PhD candidate in Art History specializing in early modern women artists, I was attracted to […]
This post is part of our Revealing Voices blog series. Women philosophers writing about women philosophers is a recent development in the history of philosophy. To date, almost all women philosophers that have been written about have been written about by men; and almost all women writing about philosophers have been writing about male ones.[1] Women writing […]
