Disappearing Ink

Eileen O'Neill (1953-2017) was at the time of her death Professor of Philosophy at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst. A distinguished historian of early modern philosophy, O'Neill was instrumental in recovering the work of women philosophers who had been written out of the histories of early modern thought. She published numerous essays, reviews and encyclopedia entries about their work and edited the first modern edition of Margaret Cavendish's Observations on Experimental Philosophy as well as Feminist History of Philosophy: The Recovery and Evaluation of Women's Philosophical Thought, with Marcy Lascano. Gary Ostertag, who was the partner and husband of Eileen O'Neill, is Professor of Medical Education at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and on the doctoral faculty of the PhD Program in Philosophy at the Graduate Center, CUNY. He publishes in the philosophy of language, the history of analytic philosophy, and bioethics, and is the editor of Meanings andOther Things: Themes from the Work of Stephen Schiffer (OUP) and Definite Descriptions: A Reader.

• I. Women and the Historiography of Philosophy Chapter 1: Disappearing Ink: Early Modern Women Philosophers and Their Fate in History Chapter 2: Women Cartesians, "Feminine Philosophy," and Historical Exclusion Chapter 3: Women Philosophers and the History of Philosophy Chapter 4: The Forgetting of Gender and the New Histories of Philosophy: A Response to Nancy Tuana Chapter 5: Justifying the Inclusion of Women in Our Histories of Philosophy: The Case of Marie de Gournay Chapter 6: Feminist History of Philosophy II. Causation and Gender in Early Modern Thought Chapter 7: Mind-Body Interaction and Metaphysical Consistency: A Defense of Descartes Chapter 8: Influxus Physicus Chapter 9: Introduction to Observations on Experimental Philosophy Chapter 10: Margaret Cavendish, Stoic Antecedent Causes, and Early Modern Occasional Causes Chapter 11: Mary Astell on the Causation of Sensation Chapter 12: Cartesianism and the Gendered Mind: Poullain's On the Equality of the Two Sexes and Lambert's New Reflections on Women III. Gender and Agency Chapter 13: (Re)presentations of Eros: Exploring Female Sexual Agency

Our understanding of early modern philosophy has been made incalculably richer by the groundbreaking historical and historiological work of Eileen O'Neill; and the many indelible gems of striking insight and meticulous scholarship collected here together for the first time demonstrate exactly why and how. They are essential reading for anyone who values the true story of philosophys past.