A solid point from Existential Comics. I'll just leave it here without further ado. Nietzsche On Women - Existential Comics
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The Oxford University Press has posted a timeline of women in philosophy. In order not to go back to Hypatia, which would make for an unwieldy graphic, the Oxfordians have arbitrarily begun the timeline in 1678, when a woman was for the first time granted a doctorate degree in philosophy. The university that broke that particular cave ceiling? The University of Padua in Italy. The woman involved? Elena Cornaro Piscopia. Senora Piscopia is new to me. Here are two other facts from the timeline that are also new to me, arbitrarily selected: Susanne Langer published a paper in the journal MIND (a leading British philosophy journal) in 1926. Langer is often regarded as the first woman "professional philosopher." Her 1926 paper was titled "Confusion of Symbols and Confusion of Logical Types." It expressed her interest in symbolic logic, which she would later put to work in the development of aesthetics. Finally, for our brief survey, the first college course ...
It is a journalistic staple, the "woman who broke the glass ceiling in field X" story. It can feel a bit forced. Recently Republicans have been telling us that we ought to celebrate the first woman to head the CIA, and we ought to recognize President Trump as her enabler. Sorry: I'm not big on celebrating torturers and evidence destroyers. And that particular ceiling might have remained intact without any harm to womankind. I recently tried and failed to sell an unusual glass ceiling sort of story myself. It didn't have to do with torture. It involved yachts, motorboats, and boating. It involved in particular the sort of journalism that addresses those matters. I didn't make the sale, so I'll use that material here. It began as an obituary.... ------------------- Bonnie Jean O’Boyle passed away on March 18, 2018. She was the first woman ever to serve as the editor-in-chief of a boating magazine. She co-founded Power and Motoryacht (PMY) in 1...