List of female philosophers

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A list of female philosophers, ordered alphabetically:

• Marilyn McCord Adams, (born 1943) ^O
• Linda Martin Alcoff
• Alice Ambrose, (1906-2001)
• Pamela Sue Anderson
• Julia Annas
• G. E. M. Anscombe, (1918-2001) ^{C O R W}
• Hannah Arendt, (1906-1975) ^{C O R W}
• Arete of Cyrene, (4th century B.C.)
• Aristoclea, (6th century B.C)
• Aspasia of Miletus, (5th century B.C.)
• Mary Astell, (1666-1731) ^{A B C D1 D2 R}
• Babette Babich (1956-)
• Linda Badham, (born 1950)
• Annette Baier, (born 1929) ^O
• 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}
• Bracha L. Ettinger ^R1
• Philippa Foot, (born 1920) ^{C O W}
• Dorothea Frede, (1941-)
• Margaret Gilbert
• Charlotte Perkins Gilman, (1860-1935)
• Hannah Ginsborg
• Emma Goldman, (1869–1940)
• Marie de Gournay, (1565-1645) ^D2
• Celia Green, (born 1935)
• Marjorie Grene, (born 1910)
• Susan Haack, (born 1945) ^W
• Jane Heal
• Virginia Held
• Ágnes Heller, (born 1929)
• Heloise, (1101-1162) ^D2
• Mary Hesse, (born 1924)
• Hildegard of Bingen, (1098-1179) ^{D1 R}
• Hipparchia, (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)
• 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
• Ruth Millikan, (born 1933) ^O
• Iris Murdoch, (1919-1999) ^{O W}
• Nancey Murphy, (born 1951)
• Judith Sargent Murray, (1751-1820) ^D2
• Martha Nussbaum, (born 1947) ^{C O}
• Onora O'Neill, (born 1941) ^{O W}
• Janet Radcliffe Richards, (born 1944) ^O
• Ayn Rand, (1905-1982) ^R
• Rosemary Radford Ruether, (born 1936)
• Ruth Lydia Saw
• Anna Maria van Schurman, (1607-1678) ^{D2 R}
• Lady Mary Shepherd, (1777-1847) ^{A C}
• Marco S Sideri, ^{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
• Shannon Sullivan
• Harriet Taylor Mill, (1807-1858) ^{C D1 R}
• Teresa of Avila, (1515-1582) ^C
• 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)
• Linda Zagzebski, (born 1946)

[edit] Notes

• Note 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 0-87220-259-3
• Note 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 0-521-81295-X
• 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 0-521-63722-8
• Note 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 0-252-03022-2
• Note 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 0-7923-5956-9
• Note G: - For more information about this person's contribution to philosophy, see her entry in Catherine Villanueva Gardner's Women Philosophers. Westview; 2003. ISBN 0-8133-4133-7 (paperback); ISBN 0-8133-6610-0 (hardcover)
• 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 0-19-866132-0
• 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 0-415-22364-4
• Note R1: - For more information about this person's contribution to philosophy, see the entry of her major concepts in Problematizing Global Knowledge. Theory, Culture and Society 23(2-3), Sage; 2006. ISSN 0263-2764
• 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 0-460-87721-6