Elizabeth Hamilton's Memoirs of Modern Philosophers as a philosophical text.
Elizabeth Hamilton (1758–1816) has not so far been considered a philosopher, probably because she wrote novels and tracts on education rather than philosophical treatises. This paper argues that Hamilton's novel Memoirs of Modern Philosophers (1800) should be read as a philosophical text, both for i...
| Publicado en: | British Journal for the History of Philosophy Vol. 29; no. 6; pp. 1072 - 1099 |
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