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The contributions to this issue of The Monist attest that the history of women’s ideas has established itself as a rich new scholarly domain that raises substantive and methodological issues. In her contribution, Sarah Hutton theorizes the methodology involved in the project of retrieving historical women’s philosophical contributions by way of a discussion of Bernard Williams’s posthumously published essay, “Descartes and the Historiography of Philosophy” (2006), which develops ideas first broached in 1978. Williams differentiates the methods of the history of ideas, which locates a work in its historical context, from the history of philosophy, which extracts ideas pertinent to present debates from historical texts and treats the past, in Hagengruber’s phrase, as a “quarry.” Both approaches to the history of philosophy might be applied in order to weave women’s writings into the narrative of philosophy’s history, but Hutton ultimately suggests that a third approach, initially proposed by Lisa Shapiro and which sees philosophy as a conversation, holds out the best prospects for integrating women’s contributions into philosophy.1
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