List of women philosophers

A list of female philosophers, ordered alphabetically:

Marilyn McCord Adams, (born 1943) Template:Fn
Linda Martin Alcoff
Alice Ambrose, (1906-2001)
Pamela Sue Anderson
Julia Annas
G. E. M. Anscombe, (1918-2001) Template:Fn Template:Fn Template:Fn Template:Fn
Hannah Arendt, (1906-1975) Template:Fn Template:Fn Template:Fn Template:Fn
Arete of Cyrene, (4th century B.C.)
Aristoclea, (6th century B.C)
Aspasia of Miletus, (5th century B.C.)
Mary Astell, (1666-1731) Template:Fn Template:Fn Template:Fn Template:Fn Template:Fn Template:Fn
Babette Babich (1956-)
Linda Badham, (born 1950)
Annette Baier, (born 1929) Template:Fn
Ban Zhao, (c. 35-100) Template:Fn
Antoinette Brown, (1825-1921) Template:Fn
Judith Butler, (born 1956)
Mary Whiton Calkins, (1863-1930) Template:Fn
Nancy Cartwright (born 1943) Template:Fn
Margaret Cavendish, (1623-1673) Template:Fn Template:Fn Template:Fn Template:Fn
Christine de Pizan, (c. 1365-c. 1430) Template:Fn Template:Fn
Andrea Christofidou
Patricia Churchland, (born 1943) Template:Fn
Hélène Cixous, (born 1937) Template:Fn
Catherine Trotter Cockburn, (1679-1749) Template:Fn Template:Fn Template:Fn Template:Fn Template:Fn
Lady Anne Finch Conway, (1631-1679) Template:Fn Template:Fn Template:Fn Template:Fn Template:Fn Template:Fn Template:Fn
Simone de Beauvoir, (1908-1986) Template:Fn Template:Fn Template:Fn Template:Fn
Émilie du Châtelet, (1706-1749) Template:Fn
Raya Dunayevskaya, (1910-1987)
Dorothy Edgington
George Eliot, (1819-1880) Template:Fn Template:Fn
Elisabeth of Bohemia, (1618-1680) Template:Fn Template:Fn Template:Fn Template:Fn
Philippa Foot, (born 1920) Template:Fn Template:Fn Template:Fn
Linda Quan Foy (born 1948)
Dorothea Frede, (1941-)
Margaret Gilbert
Charlotte Perkins Gilman, (1860-1935)
Hannah Ginsborg
Emma Goldman, (1869–1940)
Marie de Gournay, (1565-1645) Template:Fn
Celia Green, (born 1935)
Marjorie Grene, (born 1910)
Susan Haack, (born 1945) Template:Fn
Jane Heal
Virginia Held
Ágnes Heller, (born 1929)
Heloise, (1101-1162) Template:Fn
Mary Hesse, (born 1924)
Hildegard of Bingen, (1098-1179) Template:Fn Template:Fn
Hipparchia, (4th century BC)
Jennifer Hornsby, (born 1951) Template:Fn
Rosalind Hursthouse
Hypatia of Alexandria, (370-415) Template:Fn Template:Fn
Luce Irigaray, (born 1930) Template:Fn Template:Fn Template:Fn
Martha Klein
Christine Korsgaard
Julia Kristeva, (born 1941) Template:Fn Template:Fn Template:Fn
Susanne Langer, (1895-1985) Template:Fn Template:Fn Template:Fn
Michèle Le Dœuff, (born 1948) Template:Fn Template:Fn
Leontion, (4th century BC)
Rosa Luxemburg, (1871-1919) Template:Fn
Catherine Macaulay, (1731-1791) Template:Fn
Penelope Maddy
Ruth Barcan Marcus, (born 1921) Template:Fn Template:Fn
Harriet Martineau, (1802-1876) Template:Fn Template:Fn
Damaris Cudworth Masham, (1659-1708) Template:Fn Template:Fn Template:Fn Template:Fn
Mechthild of Magdeburg, (1210-1285) Template:Fn
Mary Midgley, (born 1919) Template:Fn
Ruth Millikan, (born 1933) Template:Fn
Iris Murdoch, (1919-1999) Template:Fn Template:Fn
Nancey Murphy, (born 1951)
Judith Sargent Murray, (1751-1820) Template:Fn
Martha Nussbaum, (born 1947) Template:Fn Template:Fn
Onora O'Neill, (born 1941) Template:Fn Template:Fn
Janet Radcliffe Richards, (born 1944) Template:Fn
Ayn Rand, (1905-1982) Template:Fn
Rosemary Radford Ruether, (born 1936)
Ruth Lydia Saw
Anna Maria van Schurman, (1607-1678) Template:Fn Template:Fn
Lady Mary Shepherd, (1777-1847) Template:Fn Template:Fn
Bryan Albridge, Template:Fn Template:Fn
Sor Juana, (1648-1695) Template:Fn
Anne Louise Germaine de Staël, (1766-1817) Template:Fn
L. Susan Stebbing, (1885-1943) Template:Fn
Edith Stein, (1891-1942) Template:Fn
Gabrielle Suchon, (1631-1703) Template:Fn
Shannon Sullivan
Harriet Taylor Mill, (1807-1858) Template:Fn Template:Fn Template:Fn
Teresa of Avila, (1515-1582) Template:Fn
Judith Jarvis Thomson, (born 1929) Template:Fn Template:Fn Template:Fn
Baroness Mary Warnock, (born 1924) Template:Fn
Simone Weil, (1909-1943) Template:Fn Template:Fn Template:Fn Template:Fn
Victoria, Lady Welby, (1837-1912) Template:Fn
Mary Wollstonecraft, (1759-1797) Template:Fn Template:Fn Template:Fn Template:Fn Template:Fn Template:Fn
Frances Wright, (1795-1852) Template:Fn
Dorothy Maud Wrinch, (1894-1976)
Linda Zagzebski, (born 1946)

Notes

Template:Fnb - 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
Template:Fnb - 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
Template:Fnb - 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
Template:Fnb - 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
Template:Fnb - 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
Template:Fnb - 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)
Template:Fnb - 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
Template:Fnb - 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
Template:Fnb - 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