Women in Science (KOV/E-WOS)

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  • Form of course completion: Exam, presentation, activity on seminars
  • Lecturers: Mgr. Eva Peterková, Ph.D.
  • Guarantor: Mgr. Eva Peterková, Ph.D.
  • 6 credits
  • Type of completion: Combined
  • Time requirements: Lecture 1 [Hours/Week]; Seminar 1 [Hours/Week]
  • Semester: Winter
  • Language of instruction: English
  • Prerequisite courses: No

Course objectives:

The course Women in Science focuses on the 13 famous women from antiquity to modern days who have fundamentally influenced the history of science. The aim is to get students to acknowledge the history of their scientific work, as well as the circumstances in which they published their ideas and works. The lectures are supplemented by the interpretation of authors' texts, with which the students get acquainted in advance. Students will not only learn how to analyse a scientific text. But as well, they will be able to place thinkers in a broader historical and social context.

Requirements on student:

  • Activity on seminars (20 points)
  • Presentation (30 points)
  • Final exam (50 points)

Content:

  • Context of ancient philosophy
  • Women of ancient philosophy (Hypatia, Hyparchia)
  • Context of middle age philosophy
  • Women of middle age philosophy (Heloise, Christine de Pizan)
  • Context of modern age philosophy
  • Women of modern age philosophy (Marie de Gournay, Margaret Cavendish)
  • Context of enlightenment
  • Women of enlightenment philosophy and science
  • Women of 19th century science and philosophy
  • Protofeminism
  • Feministic philosophers
  • Women of 20th century science
  • Women of contemporary science

Literature:

Atherton, Margaret: Women Philosophers of the Early Modern Period. Hackett Publishing Co, Inc 1994 Women, Philosophy and Science: Italy and Early Modern Europe (Ebbersmeyer, Sabrina; Paganini, Gianni eds.). Springer, 2021.

A History of Women Philosophers: Ancient Women Philosophers 600 B.C. ― 500 A.D. Waithe, Mary Ellen (ed.). Springer, 1987.

A History of Women Philosophers, Medieval, Renaissance and Enlightenment Women Philosophers A.D. 500–1600. Waithe, Mary Ellen (ed.). Springer, 2012.

A History of Women Philosophers: Modern Women Philosophers, 1600–1900. Waithe, Mary Ellen (ed.). Springer, 2012.


Updated: 03. 10. 2022