Alison Stone (born 1972) is a British philosopher. She is a Professor of European Philosophy in the Department of Politics, Philosophy and Religion at

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, UK.

Career

Stone has a D.Phil. degree from the

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on Hegel and feminist philosophy with the dissertation "''Sexual Difference and the Philosophy of Nature: Hegel, Irigaray and the Material''" in 1998. Before joining Lancaster University in 2002 she held a temporary lectureship and a research fellowship at

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. Stone writes about

feminist philosophy Feminist philosophy is an approach to philosophy from a feminist perspective and also the employment of philosophical methods to feminist topics and questions. Feminist philosophy involves both reinterpreting philosophical texts and methods in ...

, continental European philosophy and the

history of philosophy The history of philosophy is the systematic study of the development of philosophical thought. It focuses on philosophy as rational inquiry based on argumentation, but some theorists also include myth, religious traditions, and proverbial lor ...

. She is the author of nine books and numerous articles on

feminism Feminism is a range of socio-political movements and ideology, ideologies that aim to define and establish the political, economic, personal, and social gender equality, equality of the sexes. Feminism holds the position that modern soci ...

German Idealism German idealism is a philosophical movement that emerged in Germany in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. It developed out of the work of Immanuel Kant in the 1780s and 1790s, and was closely linked both with Romanticism and the revolutionary ...

Theodor Adorno Theodor is a masculine given name. It is a German form of Theodore. It is also a variant of Teodor. List of people with the given name Theodor * Theodor Adorno, (1903–1969), German philosopher * Theodor Aman, Romanian painter * Theodor Blue ...

Luce Irigaray Luce Irigaray (; born 3 May 1930) is a Belgian-born French feminist, philosopher, linguist, psycholinguist, psychoanalyst, and cultural theorist who examines the uses and misuses of language in relation to women. Irigaray's first and most ...

Judith Butler Judith Pamela Butler (born February 24, 1956) is an American feminist philosopher and gender studies scholar whose work has influenced political philosophy, ethics, and the fields of third-wave feminism, queer theory, and literary theory. In ...

philosophy of nature Nature has two inter-related meanings in philosophy and natural philosophy. On the one hand, it means the set of all things which are natural, or subject to the normal working of the laws of nature. On the other hand, it means the essential prop ...

women in philosophy Women have made significant contributions to philosophy throughout the history of the discipline. Ancient examples of female philosophers include Maitreyi (1000 BCE), Gargi Vachaknavi (700 BCE), Hipparchia of Maroneia (active ) and Arete of C ...

, and various other topics. One of her most frequently viewed articles on Academia.edu is on 'Essentialism and Anti-Essentialism in Feminist Philosophy'. She has also written a book on philosophy and popular music. Most recently she has been working on women in nineteenth-century philosophy, especially in Britain, including the philosopher

Frances Power Cobbe Frances Power Cobbe (4 December 1822 – 5 April 1904) was an Anglo-Irish writer, philosopher, religious thinker, social reformer, anti-vivisection activist and leading women's suffrage campaigner. She founded a number of animal advocacy grou ...

as well as others such as

Harriet Martineau Harriet Martineau (12 June 1802 – 27 June 1876) was an English social theorist.Hill, Michael R. (2002''Harriet Martineau: Theoretical and Methodological Perspectives'' Routledge. She wrote from a sociological, holism, holistic, religious and ...

and

Anna Jameson Anna Brownell Jameson (17 May 179417 March 1860) was an Anglo-Irish art historian whose work spanned art and literary criticism, philosophy, travel writing, and feminism. She became very well known for her extensive writings. Jameson was conn ...

. Stone previously co-edited the journal the ''

Hegel Bulletin ''Hegel Bulletin'' (previously ''Bulletin of the Hegel Society of Great Britain'') is a bi-annual peer-reviewed academic journal covering the thought of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel published by Hegel Society of Great Britain (HSGB). It was esta ...

'' and was an interim co-editor of Hypatia.

Selected publications

* *''Luce Irigaray and the Philosophy of Sexual Difference'' (2006, Cambridge UP, ) *''An Introduction to Feminist Philosophy'' (2007, Polity Press, ) *''The Edinburgh Critical History of Nineteenth-Century Philosophy'' (2011, Edinburgh UP, ) *''Feminism, Psychoanalysis, and Maternal Subjectivity'' (2012, Routledge, ) *''The Value of Popular Music: An Approach from Post-Kantian Aesthetics'' (2016,

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). *''The Routledge Companion to Feminist Philosophy'', co-edited with

Ann Garry Ann Garry is an American feminist philosopher. She is professor of philosophy, emerita, at California State University, Los Angeles (CSULA). While at CSULA, Garry was the founding director of the Center for the Study of Genders and Sexualities, an ...

and Serene Khader (2017,

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, ) *''Nature, Ethics and Gender in German Romanticism and Idealism'' (2018, Rowman & Littlefield International, ) *''Being Born: Birth and Philosophy'' (2019, Oxford UP, ) *''Frances Power Cobbe: Essential Writings of a Nineteenth-Century Feminist Philosopher'' (2021, Oxford New Histories of Philosophy series, Oxford UP, ) *''Frances Power Cobbe'' (2022, Cambridge Elements in Women in the History of Philosophy, Cambridge UP, )

References

External links

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Alison Stone
on Academia.edu
Hegel, Irigaray, Motherhood & Feminist Philosophy
Richard Marshall's interview with Alison Stone, in 3:AM Magazine, via 3:16AM, Marshall's philosophy interviews blog Living people Academics of Lancaster University Alumni of the University of Sussex British philosophers Philosophy journal editors British women philosophers 1972 births 21st-century British philosophers 20th-century British philosophers Scholars of feminist philosophy Hegel scholars {{UK-philosopher-stub