List of female philosophers
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See also: Women in philosophy
A list of female philosophers ordered alphabetically by surname:
- Marilyn McCord Adams (born 1943)O
- Linda Martin Alcoff
- Alice Ambrose (1906–2001)
- Julia Annas
- Tullia d'Aragona (c. 1510-1556)
- Marilena Chaui (born 1941)
- Diotima of Mantinea
- G. E. M. Anscombe (1918–2001)C O R W
- Hannah Arendt (1906–1975)C O R W
- Arete of Cyrene (4th century BC)
- Aristoclea (6th century BC)
- Aspasia of Miletus (5th century BC)
- Mary Astell (1666–1731)A B C D1 D2 R
- Babette Babich (1956–)
- Annette Baier (born 1929)O
- Seyla Benhabib
- Ban Zhao (c. 35–100)D2
- Antoinette Brown (1825–1921)D2
- Judith Butler (born 1956)
- Mary Whiton Calkins (1863–1930)W
- Nancy Cartwright (born 1943)O
- Margaret Cavendish (1623–1673)A B C R
- Christine de Pizan (c. 1365–c. 1430)G R
- Andrea Christofidou
- Patricia Churchland (born 1943)C
- Hélène Cixous (born 1937)R
- Catherine Trotter Cockburn (1679–1749)A B C R W
- Lady Anne Finch Conway (1631–1679)A B C D1 O R W
- Simone de Beauvoir (1908–1986)D1 O R W
- Émilie du Châtelet (1706–1749)R
- Raya Dunayevskaya (1910–1987)
- Dorothy Edgington
- George Eliot (1819–1880)G R
- Elisabeth of Bohemia (1618–1680)A B C R
- Philippa Foot (1920-2010)C O W
- Marilyn Frye
- Margaret Gilbert
- Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860–1935)
- Emma Goldman (1869–1940)
- Marie de Gournay (1565–1645)D2
- Celia Green (born 1935)
- Marjorie Grene (1910-2009)
- Susan Haack (born 1945)W
- Sally Haslanger
- Ágnes Heller (born 1929)
- Heloise (1101–1162)D2
- Mary Hesse (born 1924)
- Hildegard of Bingen (1098–1179)D1 R
- Hipparchia of Maroneia (4th century BC)
- Jennifer Hornsby (born 1951)O
- Rosalind Hursthouse
- Hypatia of Alexandria (370–415)C R
- Luce Irigaray (born 1930)C O R
- Martha Klein
- Christine Korsgaard
- Julia Kristeva (born 1941)C O R
- Susanne Langer (1895–1985)O R W
- Michèle Le Dœuff (born 1948)O R
- Leontion (4th century BC)
- Hilde Lindemann
- Rosa Luxemburg (1871–1919)R
- Catherine Macaulay (1731–1791)G
- Penelope Maddy
- Ruth Barcan Marcus (born 1921)C O
- Harriet Martineau (1802–1876)R W
- Damaris Cudworth Masham (1659–1708)A B C R
- Mechthild of Magdeburg (1210–1285)G
- Mary Midgley (born 1919)W
- Melissa
- Ruth Millikan (born 1933)O
- Iris Murdoch (1919–1999)O W
- Ioanna Kucuradi (born 1936)
- Nancey Murphy (born 1951)
- Judith Sargent Murray (1751–1820)D2
- Nel Noddings
- Martha Nussbaum (born 1947)C O
- Onora O'Neill (born 1941)O W
- Ayn Rand (January 20, 1905 – March 6, 1982)
- Janet Radcliffe Richards (born 1944)O
- Rosemary Radford Ruether (born 1936)
- Renata Salecl (born 1962)
- Anna Maria van Schurman (1607–1678)D2 R
- Lady Mary Shepherd (1777–1847)A C
- Sor Juana (1648–1695)D2
- Anne Louise Germaine de Staël (1766–1817)R
- L. Susan Stebbing (1885–1943)W
- Edith Stein (1891–1942)D1
- Gabrielle Suchon (1631–1703)R
- Lisa H. Schwartzman
- Harriet Taylor Mill (1807–1858)C D1 R
- Teresa of Avila (1515–1582)C
- Themistoclea (fl. 600 BCE. Teacher of Pythagoras
- Judith Jarvis Thomson (born 1929)C O W
- Baroness Mary Warnock (born 1924)O
- Simone Weil (1909–1943)C D1 O R
- Victoria Lady Welby (1837–1912)W
- Mary Wollstonecraft (1759–1797)C D1 G O R W
- Frances Wright (1795–1852)D2
- Dorothy Maud Wrinch (1894–1976)
- Alenka Zupančič (born 1966)
[edit] Notes
- ^A – For more information about this person's contribution to philosophy see her entry in Margaret Atherton's Women Philosophers of the Early Modern Period. Hackett; 1994. ISBN 0872202593
- ^B – For more information about this person's contribution to philosophy see her entry in Jacqueline Broad's Women Philosophers of the Seventeenth Century. Cambridge; 2003. ISBN 052181295X
- ^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
- ^D1 – For more information about this person's contribution to philosophy see her entry in Jane Duran's Eight Women Philosophers: Theory Politics and Feminism. University of Illinois Press; 2006. ISBN 0252030222
- ^D2 – For more information about this person's contribution to philosophy see her entry in Therese Boos Dykeman's The Neglected Canon: Nine Women Philosophers – First to the Twentieth Century. Kluwer; 1999. ISBN 0792359569
- ^G – For more information about this person's contribution to philosophy see her entry in Catherine Villanueva Gardner's Women Philosophers. Westview; 2003. ISBN 0813341337 (paperback); ISBN 0813366100 (hardcover)
- ^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
- ^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
- ^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
