‘Women were seen as too irrational to be philosophers’

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Description

Philosophy teacher Carlo Ierna has been awarded €50,000 to update the canon of the history of philosophy. “Non-Western and female philosophers have been actively erased from the canon.”

Subject

Comenius Fellowship "Reverse Engineering the Canon"

Period2 Jul 2020

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Media coverage

  • Title‘Women were seen as too irrational to be philosophers’
    Degree of recognitionInternational
    Media name/outletAd Valvas
    Media typeWeb
    Country/TerritoryNetherlands
    Date2/07/20
    DescriptionPhilosophy teacher Carlo Ierna has been awarded €50,000 to update the canon of the history of philosophy. “Non-Western and female philosophers have been actively erased from the canon.”
    Producer/AuthorPeter Breedveld
    URLhttps://www.advalvas.vu.nl/node/8176
    PersonsCarlo Ierna