Karen Detlefsen at Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews:
In his preface to this volume of Eileen O’Neill’s collected essays, Gary Ostertag notes two book projects that O’Neill discussed writing: one on occasional causation in early modern philosophy, and a second collecting her essays. This is that second project, essays gathered together by Ostertag. Even for one who has read each of O’Neill’s essays through the years, and who came to appreciate every one of those essays as masterful blends of creative and rigorous thought, reading thirteen of O’Neill’s papers together leaves a striking impression. For across topics such as causation (including occasional causation), mind-body interaction, historiography, feminism, and more, O’Neill brings a consistent blend of exhaustive scholarship, attunement to historical context, analytic rigor, and the curiosity and courage[1] to broach new topics or to place old ones under new lights. O’Neill was among a small handful of philosophers at the vanguard of a project to bring the philosophical contributions of early modern European women to light, and her tireless work on this front has changed, for the better, our historical understanding of the discipline. O’Neill’s impact has been immense.
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