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^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 ^B – For more information about this person's contribution to philosophy see her entry in Jacqueline Broad's Women Philosophers of the Seventeenth ...
Simone Lucie Ernestine Marie Bertrand de Beauvoir[ a ] (UK: / dəˈboʊvwɑːr /, US: / dəboʊˈvwɑːr /; [ 2 ][ 3 ]French: [simɔn də bovwaʁ] ⓘ; 9 January 1908 – 14 April 1986) was a French existentialist philosopher, writer, social theorist, and feminist activist.
Women in society. Women have made significant contributions to philosophy throughout the history of the discipline. Ancient examples include Maitreyi (1000 BCE), Gargi Vachaknavi (700 BCE), Hipparchia of Maroneia (active c. 325 BCE) and Arete of Cyrene (active 5th–4th centuries BCE). Some women philosophers were accepted during the medieval ...
Hypatia. Hypatia[a] (born c. 350–370; died 415 AD) [1][4] was a Neoplatonist philosopher, astronomer, and mathematician who lived in Alexandria, Egypt, then part of the Eastern Roman Empire. She was a prominent thinker in Alexandria where she taught philosophy and astronomy. [5] Although preceded by Pandrosion, another Alexandrian female ...
Gertrude Elizabeth Margaret Anscombe FBA (/ ˈænskəm /; 18 March 1919 – 5 January 2001), usually cited as G. E. M. Anscombe or Elizabeth Anscombe, was a British [1] analytic philosopher. She wrote on the philosophy of mind, philosophy of action, philosophical logic, philosophy of language, and ethics. She was a prominent figure of ...
Mary Wollstonecraft (/ ˈ w ʊ l s t ən k r æ f t /, also UK: /-k r ɑː f t /; [1] 27 April 1759 – 10 September 1797) was a British writer, philosopher, and advocate of women's rights. [2] [3] Until the late 20th century, Wollstonecraft's life, which encompassed several unconventional (at the time) personal relationships, received more attention than her writing.
This is a list of feminist philosophers, that is, people who theorize about gender issues and female perspectives in different areas of philosophy This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness.
Elena Lucrezia Cornaro Piscopia (US: / k ɔːr ˌ n ɑːr oʊ p ɪ ˈ s k oʊ p i ə /, [3] Italian: [ˈɛːlena luˈkrɛttsja korˈnaːro piˈskɔːpja]; 5 June 1646 – 26 July 1684) or Elena Lucrezia Corner (Venetian: [koɾˈnɛɾ], Italian:), also known in English as Helen Cornaro, was a Venetian philosopher of noble descent who in 1678 became one of the first women to receive an academic ...