List of women philosophers

From The Book of THoTH (Leaves of Wisdom)

Women Philosophers, listed alphabetically:

  • Marilyn McCord Adams, (born 1943)O
  • G. E. M. Anscombe, (1918-2001)CORW
  • Hannah Arendt, (1906-1975)CORW
  • Arete of Cyrene, (4th century B.C.)
  • Aspasia of Miletus, (5th century B.C.)
  • Mary Astell, (1666-1731)CR
  • Annette Baier, (born 1929)O
  • Judith Butler, (born 1956)
  • Mary Whiton Calkins, (1863-1930)W
  • Nancy Cartwright (born 1943)O
  • Margaret Cavendish, (1623-1673)CR
  • Christine de Pizan, (c. 1365-c. 1430)R
  • Andrea Christofidou
  • Patricia Churchland, (born 1943)C
  • Hélène Cixous, (born 1937)R
  • Catherine Trotter Cockburn, (1679-1749)CRW
  • Lady Anne Finch Conway, (1631-1679)CORW
  • Simone de Beauvoir, (1908-1986)ORW
  • Émilie du Châtelet, (1706-1749)R
  • Raya Dunayevskaya, (1910-1987)
  • Dorothy Edgington
  • Marco Sideri
  • George Eliot, (1819-1880)R
  • Elisabeth of Bohemia, (1618-1680)CR
  • Philippa Foot, (born 1920)COW
  • Charlotte Perkins Gilman, (1860-1935)
  • Emma Goldman, (1869–1940)
  • Celia Green, (born 1935)
  • Susan Haack, (born 1945)W
  • Mary Hesse, (born 1924)
  • Hildegard of Bingen, (1098-1179)R
  • Hipparchia, (4th century BC)
  • Jennifer Hornsby, (born 1951)O
  • Rosalind Hursthouse
  • Hypatia of Alexandria, (370-415)CR
  • Luce Irigaray, (born 1930)COR
  • Martha Klein
  • Christine Korsgaard
  • Julia Kristeva, (born 1941)COR
  • Susanne Langer, (1895-1985)ORW
  • Michèle Le Dœuff, (born 1948)OR
  • Leontion, (4th century BC)
  • Rosa Luxemburg, (1871-1919)R
  • Ruth Barcan Marcus, (born 1921)CO
  • Harriet Martineau, (1802-1876)RW
  • Damaris Cudworth Masham, (1659-1708)CR
  • Mary Midgley, (born 1919)W
  • Ruth Millikan, (born 1933)O
  • Iris Murdoch, (1919-1999)OW
  • Martha Nussbaum, (born 1947)CO
  • Onora O'Neill, (born 1941)OW
  • Janet Radcliffe Richards, (born 1944)O
  • Ayn Rand, (1905-1982)R
  • Anna Maria van Schurman, (1607-1678)R
  • Lady Mary Shepherd, (1777-1847)C
  • Anne Louise Germaine de Staël, (1766-1817)R
  • L. Susan Stebbing, (1885-1943)W
  • Edith Stein, (1891-1942)
  • Gabrielle Suchon, (1631-1703)R
  • Harriet Taylor Mill, (1807-1858)CR
  • Teresa of Avila, (1515-1582)C
  • Judith Jarvis Thomson, (born 1929)COW
  • Mary Warnock, (born 1924)O
  • Simone Weil, (1909-1943)COR
  • Victoria, Lady Welby, (1837-1912)W
  • Mary Wollstonecraft, (1759-1797)CORW
  • Dorothy Maud Wrinch, (1894-1976)

References:

  • Women Philosophers Mary Warnock (ed.), (J.M. Dent, London 1996) ISBN 0460877216
  • Hipparchia's Choice: An Essay Concerning Women, Philosophy, Etc. Michèle Le Dœuff, (tr. by Trista Selous), (Blackwell, Oxford 1991) ISBN 0631176411

Notes

  • Note C: - For more information about this person's contribution to philosophy, see her entry in The Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy. Cambridge University Press; 1999. ISBN 0521637228
  • Note O: - For more information about this person's contribution to philosophy, see her entry in The Oxford Companion to Philosophy. Oxford University Press; 1995. ISBN 0198661320
  • Note R: - For more information about this person's contribution to philosophy, see her entry in the Concise Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Routledge; 2000. ISBN 0415223644
  • Note W: - For more information about this person's contribution to philosophy, see her entry in Mary Warnock's Women Philosophers. J.M. Dent; 1996. ISBN 0460877216