• mosesquine
    95
    The question is as follows: Who is your favorite female philosopher?
    There are 12 options.
    1. Who is your favorite female philosopher? (11 votes)
        Hypatia
        9%
        Judith Butler
        9%
        Luce Irigaray
          0%
        Hannah Arendt
        36%
        G. E. M. Anscombe
        36%
        Gillian Russell
        9%
        Jessica Wilson
          0%
        L. A. Paul
          0%
        Helen Beebee
          0%
        Lisa Miracchi
          0%
        Patricia Churchland
          0%
        Delia Graff Fara
          0%
  • anonymous66
    626
    How about Rebecca Goldstein?
  • mosesquine
    95

    I don't know much about Rebecca Goldstein... But there are some omissions: Sarah McGrath, Marianne Talbot, and so forth.
  • Agustino
    11.2k
    The only one I like is Anscombe - so she gets my vote! Anscombe has profound things to say. Maybe I would've picked Philippa Foot but she's not on there.
  • mosesquine
    95
    I voted for Gillian Russell, but Anscombe would be a rational choice, too.
  • anonymous66
    626
    Rosalind Hursthouse is someone else I would consider.
  • Terrapin Station
    13.8k
    Some of my favorite female philosophers:

    Susan Haack, Martha Nussbaum, Marjorie Grene, Ruth Barcan Marcus, Christine Korsgaard, Susanne Langer, Annette Baier

    None were on the poll.
  • Agustino
    11.2k
    Who picked Hannah Arendt? >:O
  • mosesquine
    95

    Susan Haack and Ruth Barcan Marcus are unfortunate omissions...
  • Moliere
    4k
    I picked Arendt. Certainly my favorite, though Judith Butler was a close second.

    I tend to think philosophers who challenge my beliefs the most are my favorites, and she did a superb job on that front.
  • Streetlight
    9.1k
    Ya, Arendt is fucking awesome (voted!). This list is a rather sad, barebones one though, missing some pretty much all of my favorites - Alicia Juarrero, Maxine Sheets-Johnstone, Adriana Cavarerro, not to mention some incredibly important lasses I'm not that big on - Martha Nussbaum, Iris Murdoch, Simone de Beauvoir, Simone Weil, etc
  • Moliere
    4k
    Martha Nussbaum is also one of my fave female philosophers, personally. Her work on late antiquity hit home for me.
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