List of women philosophers

This list of women philosophers includes well-known women philosophers in chronological order (see also Women in Philosophy ).

Antiquity

• Theano (* late 6th century BC), Greek Pythagorean (existence doubtful), married to Pythagoras
• Aspasia from Miletus (around 460–401 BC), Greek orator and philosopher, married to Pericles
• Hipparchia from Thrace (* around 340 BC), follower of Cynicism
• Leontion (* around 300 BC), Athenian hetaera, known for beauty, spirit and high education
• Diotima from Matineia (unclear whether real or fictional), wise woman, figure in Plato's symposium
• Hypatia of Alexandria (around 370–415), mathematician, astronomer and philosopher of late antiquity

middle Ages

• Hildegard von Bingen (1098–1179), German abbess, poet, composer, polymath, mystic
• Margareta Porete (1250 / 1260–1310), French theological writer, mystic
• Christine de Pizan (1365–1430), French writer and philosopher

Early modern age

• Moderata Fonte (actually Modesta Pozzo; 1555–1592), critic of religion , feminist
• Marie de Gournay (1565–1645), religious critic, feminist, translator, literary estate administrator of Michel de Montaignes
• Lucretia Marinella (1571–1653), suffragette
• Elisabeth von der Pfalz (1618–1680) , Descartes ' correspondent
• Margaret Cavendish (1623–1673)
• Sophie von der Pfalz (1630–1714), Leibniz's correspondent
• Anne Conway (1631–1679)

18th century

• Émilie du Châtelet (1706–1749)
• Laura Bassi (1711–1778), philosopher and physicist, first university professor in history (Bologna)
• Olympe de Gouges (1748–1793), suffragette
• Mary Wollstonecraft (1759–1797), suffragette, educational theorist

19th century

• Bertha von Suttner (1843–1914)
• Helene von Druskowitz (1856-1918)
• Lou Andreas-Salomé (1861–1937)

20th century

• Helene Stöcker (1869–1943), feminist, sex reformer
• Rosa Luxemburg (1871–1919), anti-militarist , internationalist , Marxist
• Anna Tumarkin (1875–1951), the first female professor in Europe with full rights to examine doctoral and post-doctoral candidates
• Hedwig Conrad-Martius (1888–1966), phenomenologist
• Susan Stebbing (1885-1943)
• Edith Stein (1891–1942), phenomenologist, mystic, educator
• Susanne K. Langer (1895–1985)
• Käte Hamburger (1896–1992), a. a. Aesthetics, literary scholar
• Maria Ossowska (1896–1974), Polish moral philosopher and sociologist from the Lwów-Warsaw School
• Katharina Kanthack (1901–1986), Heidegger student
• Dorothy Emmet (1904–2000), British philosopher, topics: process philosophy , political philosophy , philosophy of religion
• Izydora Dąmbska (1904–1983), Polish epistemologist from the Lwów-Warsaw School
• Ayn Rand (1905–1982), founder of objectivism
• Hannah Arendt (1906–1975), political theorist
• Simone de Beauvoir (1908–1986), writer, representative of existentialism , feminist
• Simone Weil (1909–1943), critical Marxist, social theorist, also a mystical religious philosopher
• Jeanne Hersch (1910–2000), existential philosopher
• Elfriede Walesca Tielsch (1910–1993)
• Maria Schätzle Pseudonym: MAC Otto (1918–2005) lived in Freiburg i. Br., Philosopher, phenomenologist
• Elizabeth Anscombe (1919–2001), analytical philosopher , expert a. a. for Wittgenstein and some medieval debates
• Iris Murdoch (1919–1999), moral philosopher and writer
• Philippa Foot (1920-2010), ethicist
• Ruth Barcan Marcus (1921–2012), logician
• Mary Hesse (1924-2016), philosophy of science
• Elisabeth Ströker (1928–2000), philosophy of science , phenomenology, Husserl
• Ágnes Heller (1929–2019)
• Luce Irigaray (* 1930), Poststructuralism and Gender Studies
• Ruth Millikan (* 1933), a. a. Philosophy of Mind , Neurophilosophy , Philosophy of Language , Semantics
• Sarah Kofman (1934–1994), Poststructuralist Theory
• Ute Guzzoni (* 1934), philosopher and university professor
• Sandra Harding (* 1935), feminist science theorist
• Cora Diamond (* 1937), "resolute" reading by Wittgenstein, moral philosopher
• Luisa Muraro (* 1940), difference feminism
• Dorothea Frede (* 1941), Philosophy of Antiquity
• Karen Gloy (* 1941), philosopher
• Julia Kristeva (1941), Feminist Philosophy
• Annemarie Pieper (* 1941), a. a. practical philosophy
• Patricia Churchland (* 1943), Philosophy of Spirit
• Chantal Mouffe (* 1943), Political Theory
• Nancy Cartwright (* 1944), science theorist
• Donna Haraway (born 1944)
• Helen Longino (* 1944), philosophy of science
• Herta Nagl-Docekal (* 1944)
• Susan Haack (* 1945), logic, philosophy of science
• Hanna-Barbara Gerl-Falkovitz (* 1945), religious philosopher
• Adriana Cavarero (* 1947), Feminist Philosophy
• Martha Nussbaum (* 1947), ethicist
• Nancy Fraser (* 1947), Critical Theory
• Geneviève Fraisse (* 1948)
• Seyla Benhabib (* 1950), gender theorist
• Ursula Wolf (* 1951), Ancient Philosophy, Animal Ethics
• Londa Schiebinger (* 1952), feminist science theorist
• Vandana Shiva (* 1952), civil rights activist , feminist, conservationist
• Birgit Recki (* 1954), Kant , Aesthetics
• Linda Martín Alcoff (* 1955), Epistemology, Feminist Philosophy
• Judith Butler (* 1956), gender theorist, foundational work Gender Trouble
• Renate Breuninger (* 1956)
• Ruth Hagengruber (* 1958)
• Elizabeth S. Anderson (* 1959), Ethics and Philosophy of Science
• Barbara Merker (* 20th century)
• Sally Haslanger (* 20th century), metaphysics and feminist philosophy
• Petra Gehring (* 1961)
• Rahel Jaeggi (* 1967), practical philosophy and social philosophy
• Svenja Flaßpöhler (* 1975), German philosopher, journalist and author
• Rebekka Reinhard (* 1972), Practical and Feminist Philosophy

See also

• List of famous philosophers
• Feminist Philosophy (Different Thoughts)

Portal women: Lists of women in individual areas  - overview

literature

• Annegret Stopczyk: No thanks, I think myself: Philosophizing from a female point of view. Structure, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-7466-8046-8 .
• Cecile T. Tougas, Sara Ebenrick (Eds.): Presenting Women Philosophers. Temple University Press, Philadelphia 2000 (English).
• Halina Bendkowski , Brigitte Weisshaupt (Ed.) What women philosophers think. 1st volume. Ammann, Zurich 1983, ISBN 3-250-10012-9 .
• Manon Andreas-Grisebach , Brigitte Weisshaupt (Ed.) What women philosophers think. 2nd volume. Ammann, Zurich 1986, ISBN 3-250-01017-0 .

Web links

• Ines Kappert : 30 years of Judith Butler's “Gender Trouble”: Questioning certainties. In: taz.de . February 28, 2020 (“probably the most famous living philosopher in the world”).
• Charlotte Witt, Lisa Shapiro:  Feminist History of Philosophy. In: Edward N. Zalta (Ed.): Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy . March 9, 2015 (English).
  • Ibid: Bibliography of Feminist Philosophers Writing about the History of Philosophy. 2015 (book and article collection).