List of women philosophers


This is a list of women philosophers ordered alphabetically by surname. Although often overlooked in mainstream historiography, women have engaged in philosophy throughout the field's history. Some notable philosophers include Hypatia of Alexandria, Anne Conway, Mary Wollstonecraft, Sarah Margaret Fuller, Edith Stein, Ayn Rand, Hannah Arendt, Simone de Beauvoir, Iris Murdoch, Elizabeth Anscombe, Mary Midgley, Philippa Foot, Mary Warnock, Joyce Mitchell Cook, Cora Diamond, and Susan Haack.

By period

Ancient philosophy

From the fall of the Western Roman Empire in the 5th century C.E. to the Renaissance in the 16th century.
The seventeenth and early twentieth centuries roughly mark the beginning and the end of modern philosophy.

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