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What is ‘philosophising in Mary’? What risk does it run of making philosophy subordinate to theological presuppositions? What could philosophy learn from Mariology? How is philosophy’s autonomy guaranteed? Are there specific problems posed by modern philosophy that a Marian turn could resolve?

What if Mary, and only Mary, is Descartes’s epistemic subject without presuppositions, pride and prejudice, in virtue of her humility? What if she experienced God as asked for by Hume’s empiricism?

Other topics may include, but are not limited to:

Concrete philosophical examples and applications of ‘philosophising in Mary’. Theological approaches to Mary as the figure of created wisdom. Historical approaches to the role of the Sedes Sapientiae. Historical approaches to philosophy as a feminine figure. Contemporary approaches from feminist philosophy and theology. Comparisons and tensions between philosophy as the Sedes Sapientiae and the Ancilla Theologiae.