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Regan Penaluna is an American writer and former philosophy professor. She holds a PhD in philosophy and has written for publications such as *The Chronicle of Higher Education* and *Aeon*.
Known for: How to Think Like a Woman: Four Women Philosophers Who Taught Me How to Love the Life of the Mind
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How to Think Like a Woman: Four Women Philosophers Who Taught Me How to Love the Life of the Mind
In this blend of memoir and intellectual history, Regan Penaluna explores the lives and ideas of four early modern women philosophers—Mary Astell, Damaris Masham, Mary Wollstonecraft, and Catharine Cockburn—who challenged the male-dominated philosophical canon. Through their stories, Penaluna reflects on her own journey as a woman in philosophy, confronting sexism and rediscovering the joy of thinking freely.
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Early Academic Experiences and the Discovery of Forgotten Voices
When I entered my PhD program, I believed philosophy was a discipline of freedom. But the reality I encountered felt like a narrowing tunnel. My questions about the ethics of care, about existential vulnerability, or about how love might be understood as a form of knowledge, were met with amused dis...
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Mary Astell: The Courage to Demand Rational Equality
Mary Astell lived in seventeenth-century England, a time when few believed women capable of abstract thought. Yet she insisted that women possessed the same rational faculties as men—reason was a divine gift, not a male prerogative. In her *A Serious Proposal to the Ladies*, Astell argued that the p...
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About Regan Penaluna
Regan Penaluna is an American writer and former philosophy professor. She holds a PhD in philosophy and has written for publications such as *The Chronicle of Higher Education* and *Aeon*. Her work often explores the intersection of philosophy, gender, and culture.
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