Alison Stone (philosopher)

Alison Stone is a British philosopher. She is a Professor of European Philosophy in the Department of Politics, Philosophy and Religion at Lancaster University, UK.

Career

Stone has a D.Phil. degree from the University of Sussex 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 Cambridge University.
Stone writes about feminist philosophy, continental European philosophy and the history of philosophy. She is the author of nine books and numerous articles on feminism, German Idealism, Theodor Adorno, Luce Irigaray, Judith Butler, philosophy of nature, women in philosophy, 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 as well as others such as Harriet Martineau and Anna Jameson. Stone previously co-edited the journal the Hegel Bulletin and was an interim co-editor of Hypatia.

Luce Irigaray and the Philosophy of Sexual Difference
An Introduction to Feminist Philosophy
The Edinburgh Critical History of Nineteenth-Century Philosophy
Feminism, Psychoanalysis, and Maternal Subjectivity
The Value of Popular Music: An Approach from Post-Kantian Aesthetics.
The Routledge Companion to Feminist Philosophy, co-edited with Ann Garry and Serene Khader
Nature, Ethics and Gender in German Romanticism and Idealism
Being Born: Birth and Philosophy
Frances Power Cobbe: Essential Writings of a Nineteenth-Century Feminist Philosopher
Frances Power Cobbe
Women Philosophers in Nineteenth-Century Britain
Women on Philosophy of Art: Britain 1770-1900 (2024, Oxford University Press,