Welcome to Women Philosophers web site!

Did you know that: ?

• A few thousand years before Pythagoras (the Father of Philosophy), a woman, En Hedu'Anna, was doing philosophy? She lived in the area now designated as Syria and/or Iraq.
• An Empress of the Roman Empire restored philosophy to Rome after Nero killed or exiled all the active philosophers.
• Women's monasteries in Europe were home to many women philosophers. The Abbess Hroswitha, for example, wrote philosophical plays.
• One of Japan's great epic authors was a woman philosopher.
• The work of a female British philosopher established the distinction between philosophy and the empirical sciences that is generally accepted in Western universities today. (Remember that Newton, Galileo and others published their works as Natural Philosophy, not science)

Alphabetical List of Women Philosophers

NOTE: Women are listed under their first names since this is the name that remains constant throughout life for most women. The only exceptions are for women whose title has become ingrained in usage eg. EnHeduAnna is listed under E and not H.

A - B

Ban Zhao , Bathsua Makin, Beatrice of Nazareth, Bruriah

C - D

E - F

G - H

I - J

K - O

Macrina, the Elder , Macrina, the Younger , Maitreyi of India , Marcella , Margaret Cavendish , Marie-le-Jars-de-Gournay, Marietta Kies , Mary Astell , Mary Fairfax Somerville . Mary Wollstonecreaft , Mechtild of Magdeburgh , Melissa , Murasaki Shikibu of Japan ,

Oliva Sabuco , Olympe de Goudges

P - S

Pan Chou , Perictione I, Perictine II Phintys of Sparta, Pythagorean women (early) , Romasa , Simone Weil , Sophia , Sosipatra of Ephesus , Susan Blow , Susanne Langer ,

T - Z

Theano , Themistoclea , Yeshe Tsogyal

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This site is a 'work in progress'. My hope is that it will include women from around the world....that scholars proficient in more languages than I and those who know more cultures than I do, will contribute to this project.

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