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. from the

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where her thesis was "Sexual Difference and the Philosophy of Nature: Hegel, Irigaray and the Material", and 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 ...

and continental European philosophy. She is the author of several books and numerous articles on

feminism Feminism is a range of socio-political movements and ideologies that aim to define and establish the political, economic, personal, and social equality of the sexes. Feminism incorporates the position that society prioritizes the male po ...

German Idealism German idealism was 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 Blueger, ...

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

Judith Butler Judith Pamela Butler (born February 24, 1956) is an American philosopher and gender theorist whose work has influenced political philosophy, ethics, and the fields of third-wave feminism, queer theory, and literary theory. In 1993, Butler ...

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 prope ...

and various other topics. One of her most frequently viewed articles on

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is on 'Essentialism and Anti-Essentialism in Feminist Philosophy'. She has also written a book on philosophy and popular music. She co-edits the journal the '' Hegel Bulletin''.

Works

Her books have been reviewed by ''Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews'', ''

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'', the ''

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'', and ''APA Newsletters''

Selected publications

*''Petrified Intelligence: Nature in Hegel’s Philosophy'' (2004,

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, ) *''Luce Irigaray and the Philosophy of Sexual Difference, An Introduction to Feminist Philosophy'' (2006, Cambridge UP, ) *''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 a 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, and also served several terms as the chai ...

and

Serene Khader Serene J. Khader is an American moral and political philosopher and feminist theorist. She is Professor and Jay Newman Chair in the Philosophy of Culture at Brooklyn College, City University of New York and the CUNY Graduate Center. Her main area ...

(2017,

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, )

References

External links

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Alison Stone
on

Hegel, Irigaray, Motherhood & Feminist Philosophy
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