Marguerite Deslauriers
Professor
Fall 2024: Monday, 11:00 - 13:00
Marguerite Deslauriers is Professor in the Department of Philosophy at McGill.听 Her research is in ancient philosophy and the history of feminist philosophy, with a focus on Aristotle and on Renaissance feminism.听 In 2024 she was a Visiting Research Professor at the University of Jyv盲skyl盲, Finland. In 2017 she was Robert Lehman Visiting Professor at Villa I Tatti, The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies.听 She founded McGill's Institute for Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies (IGSF) in 2009, and was its first Director. Her most recent works are , in the series Cambridge Elements: Women in the History of Philosophy (CUP 2024) and听听(OUP 2022).听 Her other books are ,听in the series Philosophia Antiqua (Brill 2007), and听, co-edited with Pierre Destr茅e, (CUP 2013).
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Areas of interest: Aristotle (metaphysics, biology, and political and moral philosophy), the history of philosophical conceptions of sexual difference, and Renaissance and early modern feminist treatises, especially the work of Lucrezia Marinella and Marie de Gournay.
Her most recent monographs are:听 Aristotle on Sexual Difference: Metaphysics, Biology, Politics (OUP 2022) and Lucrezia Marinella, in the series Cambridge Elements: Women in the History of Philosophy (CUP 2024).听 Her primary research project currently is an edited volume of translations of early feminist works (with Lara Harwood-Ventura): Equality and Superiority: Texts from Renaissance and Early Modern Europe (under contract with Oxford University Press).听 听
She is a co-investigator in three collaborative research projects:
Extending New Narratives in the History of Philosophy (PI Lisa Shapiro), Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) Partnership Grant, 2020-27.
The philosophical foundations of women鈥檚 rights: a new history, 1600-1750 (with Jacqueline Broad, PI, Monash University and Deborah Brown), funded by the Australian Research Council, 2019-22 (extended).
Gender in Renaissance and Early Modern Philosophy (co-applicant, with Martina Reuter, PI,University of Jyv盲skyl盲) funded by the Academy of Finland, Academy Project, 2022-2026. 听
She was听the Principal Investigator for a听project听funded by SSHRC:听, Insight Grant 2014-19.听 One of the results of听this research is听a website on which searchable transcriptions of the texts, and information about听the authors and their contexts, can be found:听.
Books
, in the series Cambridge Elements: Women in the History of Philosophy, Cambridge University Press, 2024.
, Oxford University Press, 2022.
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, co-editor with P. Destr茅e, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013.
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in the series听Philosophia Antiqua, Leiden: Brill, 2007.
Articles
"La Querelle des Femmes et l鈥檋istoire de la philosophie f茅ministe," XVIIe Si猫cle 2022/3, no. 296, num茅ro th茅matique, Historiographies des corpus modernes: 茅volutions et m茅thodes, ed. Marie-Fr茅d茅rique Pellegrin. 451-468.
鈥淎ristotle鈥檚 Human Beings,鈥� co-author with E. Zoli Filotas, in Human Beings, ed. Karolina H眉bner, in the series Oxford Philosophical Concepts, New York: Oxford University Press, 2022. 39-66.
"The Superiority of Seventeenth Century Women," Journal of the American Philosophical Association, July 2021, 1-19. Doi: 10.1017/apa.2019.242021.
鈥淭he Conceptualization of Masculine Authority as Unjust: Tyranny in 17th Century Venice,鈥� British Journal for the History of Philosophy, 27:4 Special Issue: Women in the History of Philosophy, eds. Sarah Hutton and Ruth Hagengruber, July 2019, 718-37.听 PDF:听
"Marie de Gournay and Aristotle,"听in听Feminist History of Philosophy: 听The Recovery and Evaluation of Women's Philosophical Thought (Feminist Philosophy Collection), eds. Eileen O'Neill and Marcy P. Lascano. Dordrecht: Springer, 2019, 281-99.
鈥淪ur le plaisir et le temps dans le livre X de l'脡thique 脿 Nicomaque,鈥� dans le num茅ro sp茅cial de la revue Chora REAM 17, edd. C. Cerami, M. Crubellier, A. Jaulin, May 2019, 105-126.
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"Agency and Material Causation: Bartolomeo Goggio and Lodovico Domenichi on the Female in Aristotle's Generation of Animals," in Rinascimento Veneto e Rinascimento Europeo -- European and Venetian Renaissance,听a cura di R. Bassi, Pisa: ETS, 2019.
"Thumos in Aristotle's Politics VII.7," Polis, The Journal for Ancient Greek Political Thought 36:1 (2019), 57-76.
鈥淧olitical Rule over Women in听Politics听I,"听in听Aristotle's听Politics:听A Critical Guide, eds. T. Lockwood and T. Samaras, Cambridge University Press, 2015, pp. 55-75.
"Political Unity and Inequality" in听The Cambridge Companion to Aristotle's听Politics, eds. M. Deslauriers and P. Destr茅e. 听Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013, pp. 117-143.
"",听The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy听(Winter 2012 Edition - updated 2018), Edward N. Zalta听(ed.)
"Women, Education and Philosophy," in 听A听Companion to Women in the Ancient World, eds. Sharon L. James and Sheila Dillon. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, 2012, pp. 343-353.
鈥淪exual Difference in Aristotle鈥檚听Politics听and his Biology,鈥� in听Classical World:听 (Special Issue) Bodies, Households and Landscapes: Sexuality and Gender in Graeco-Roman Antiquity, 102: 3, 2009, pp. 215-30.
鈥淥ne Soul in Two Bodies:听 Marie de Gournay and Montaigne鈥� in听Angelaki: journal of the theoretical humanities, Special Issue:听 Recoupling Genre and 鈥楪ender鈥�, ed. Moira Gatens, 13:2, August 2008, pp. 5-15.
鈥淭wo Conceptions of Equality:听 MacKinnon, Wollstonecraft and Rousseau on Natural Inequality,鈥澨�Canadian Journal of Political Science听37:4 (December 2004), pp. 1-23; short-listed for the John McMenemy Prize for the best article in the CJPS, 2004.
鈥淭he Virtues of Women and Slaves,鈥澨�Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy, Volume XXV, Winter, 2003, pp. 213-231.
鈥淗ow To Distinguish Aristotle鈥檚 Virtues,鈥澨�Phronesis, Volume XLVII, no. 2, 2002, pp. 101-126.
鈥淪ex Difference and Essence in Aristotle鈥檚听Metaphysics听and Biology,鈥� in听Re-reading the Canon: A Series Devoted to Feminist Interpretations of Major Philosophers: Aristotle, ed. Cynthia Freeland, Pennsylvania State University Press, 1998, pp. 138-67.
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鈥淣ature, Custom, and the Malleability of Gender鈥� at Gender in Renaissance and Early Modern Philosophy, University of Jyv盲skyl盲/Academy of Finland, 7-8 March 2024.
鈥淓虁ve et Aristote : les interpre虂tations du XVIe sie虁cle sur la cre虂ation d'E虁ve dans la Gene虁se鈥� at L'humanit茅 genr茅e : les femmes entre philosophie et religion dans la premi猫re modernit茅, ENS de Lyon, February 2-3, 2024.
鈥淭he Renaissance Reception of Aristotle鈥檚 Biology and the Natural Character of Women,鈥� at Conceptualizing Otherness with Aristotle in Early Modern Europe and America, University of Pennsylvania/University of Venice Ca鈥� Foscari, Philadelphia, December 1, 2023, and at Duke University, November 17, 2023.
鈥淭丑耻尘辞蝉 and Sexual Difference in Aristotle鈥檚 Responses to the Socratic Proposals of Republic 痴,鈥� at the International Society for the Study of Socrates Latin-America Regional Meeting, Women in the Socratic Tradition, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, 26-27 October 2023, and at the Duke/UNC Workshop on Race, Sex, and Marginalization in Ancient Philosophy, November 16, 2023
鈥淧olitical Questions in Popular Pro-Woman Works of the Renaissance,鈥� at Rewriting the History of Political Thought from the Margins, Humboldt University of Berlin, June 7-9, 2023; at Women in the History of Political Thought: Labor, Property and the Family, Centre for Ethics, University of Toronto, October 5-6, 2023.
鈥淲hose Worth? Inclusion and Exclusion in 16th C. Pro-woman Works,鈥� at Reinventing Woman鈥檚 Nature: Early Modern Feminism and its Roots, UCLA Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, March 30-April 1, 2023.
鈥淎ristotle on Sexual Difference,鈥� Author meets Critics panel presentation for Aristotle on Sexual Difference: Metaphysics, Biology, Politics. APA, Eastern Division annual meeting, Montreal, January 4, 2023 and at the APA, Pacific Division annual meeting, Portland, Oregon, March 20, 2024.
鈥淧aradox, Doubt, Skepticism: Forms of Uncertainty in Early Modern Pro-Woman Arguments,鈥� Qu茅bec-Ontario Workshop in Early Modern Philosophy. University of Toronto, October 28-29, 2022.
"Sexual Difference and Natural Character: the Reception of Aristotle's Historia Animalium in the Renaissance" at Aristotle鈥檚 Historia Animalium, Faculty of Classics, University of Cambridge (in conjunction with Department of Philosophy, Birkbeck College London), August 22-26, 2022.
鈥淣o-sexed and Two-sexed: 鈥楾ragainai鈥� and Eunuchs in Aristotle鈥檚 Biology鈥� as part of the symposium, Representations of Women and Gender in Ancient Philosophy, APA, Central Division, February 26, 2021.
鈥淎rguing for the Superiority of Women in the 17th Century鈥�, keynote address, Australasian Society for Early Modern Philosophy, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia, November 25-7, 2019.
"Marie de Gournay" at the New Narratives in Philosophy Graduate Student Symposium, Philosophy Department, Columbia University, NY, September 22, 2018.
"The Conceptualization of Masculine Power as Unjust: Tyranny in 17th C Venice," keynote address at the conference听Bridging the Gender Gap through Time, Faculty of Law, King's College, London, February 22-23, 2018.
鈥淎gency and Material Causation: Bartolomeo Goggio and Lodovico Domenichi on the Female in Aristotle鈥檚Generation of Animals,鈥� at the conference听European and Venetian Renaissance, University of Padua, Italy, December 12-15, 2017.
"Doubt and Scepticism in Renaissance Pro-Woman Arguments," at the conferenceWomen and Early Modern Philosophy & Science, Universit脿 del Piemonte Orientale, Vercelli (Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici) Italy, May 11-12, 2017.
"The Reception of Aristotle in Lucrezia Marinella's听La nobilt脿 et l'eccellenza delle donne co'diffetti et mancamenti de gli uomini(Venice, 1601)," Thursday Seminar, Villa I Tatti, The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies, Florence, Italy, May 4, 2017.
"L鈥櫭ゞalit茅 des sexes: toujours la m锚me, toujours diff茅rente," paper presented as part of Nuit de Philosophie, UNESCO, Paris, November 18, 2016.
"Aspects of Aristotle in du Ch芒telet's Dissertation sur la nature et la propogation du feu," at the conference听Exploring the Philosophy of 脡milie du Ch芒telet, Center for Science and Society, Columbia University, New York, NY, June 1-3, 2016.
"Lucrezia Marinella on Tyrannical Rule," at the conference听Women Philosophers on Autonomy, Yeditepe University, Istanbul, Turkey, May 5-6, 2016.
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Courses 2023-2024
Fall term:
- PHIL 242 Introduction to Feminist Theory
- PHIL 197 FYS: Right and Wrong, Good and Bad
Winter term:听
- PHIL 642 Seminar in Feminist Philosophy
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