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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 Maitreyi (1000 BCE), Gargi Vachaknavi (900 BCE), Ghosha (800 BCE), Hypatia of Alexandria (ca. 370–415 CE), Anne Conway (1631–1679), Mary Wollstonecraft (1759–1797), Harriet Martineau (1802-1876), Sarah Margaret Fuller (1810–1850), Frances Power Cobbe (1822-1904), Vernon Lee (1856-1935), Edith Stein (1891–1942), Ayn Rand (1905–1982), Hannah Arendt (1906–1975), Simone de Beauvoir (1908–1986), Iris Murdoch (1919–1999), Elizabeth Anscombe (1919–2001), Mary Midgley (1919–2018), Philippa Foot (1920–2010), Mary Warnock (1924–2019), Joyce Mitchell Cook (1933–2015, the first African American woman to receive a Ph.D. in philosophy), Cora Diamond (born 1937), and Susan Haack (born 1945).

A list of female philosophers ordered alphabetically by surname:

• Marilyn McCord Adams (born 1943)Template:Ref
• Linda Martin Alcoff
• Alice Ambrose (1906–2001)
• Julia Annas
• Marilena Chauí
• G. E. M. Anscombe (1918–2001)Template:Ref Template:Ref Template:Ref Template:Ref
• Hannah Arendt (1906–1975)Template:Ref Template:Ref Template:Ref Template:Ref
• Arete of Cyrene (4th century B.C.)
• Aristoclea (6th century B.C)
• Aspasia of Miletus (5th century B.C.)
• Mary Astell (1666–1731)Template:Ref Template:Ref Template:Ref Template:Ref Template:Ref Template:Ref
• Babette Babich (1956–)
• Annette Baier (born 1929)Template:Ref
• Ban Zhao (c. 35–100)Template:Ref
• Antoinette Brown (1825–1921)Template:Ref
• Judith Butler (born 1956)
• Mary Whiton Calkins (1863–1930)Template:Ref
• Nancy Cartwright (born 1943)Template:Ref
• Margaret Cavendish (1623–1673)Template:Ref Template:Ref Template:Ref Template:Ref
• Christine de Pizan (c. 1365–c. 1430)Template:Ref Template:Ref
• Andrea Christofidou
• Patricia Churchland (born 1943)Template:Ref
• Hélène Cixous (born 1937)Template:Ref
• Catherine Trotter Cockburn (1679–1749)Template:Ref Template:Ref Template:Ref Template:Ref Template:Ref
• Lady Anne Finch Conway (1631–1679)Template:Ref Template:Ref Template:Ref Template:Ref Template:Ref Template:Ref Template:Ref
• Simone de Beauvoir (1908–1986)Template:Ref Template:Ref Template:Ref Template:Ref
• Émilie du Châtelet (1706–1749)Template:Ref
• Raya Dunayevskaya (1910–1987)
• Dorothy Edgington
• George Eliot (1819–1880)Template:Ref Template:Ref
• Elisabeth of Bohemia (1618–1680)Template:Ref Template:Ref Template:Ref Template:Ref
• Philippa Foot (born 1920)Template:Ref Template:Ref Template:Ref
• Margaret Gilbert
• Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860–1935)
• Emma Goldman (1869–1940)
• Marie de Gournay (1565–1645)Template:Ref
• Celia Green (born 1935)
• Marjorie Grene (born 1910)
• Susan Haack (born 1945)Template:Ref
• Ágnes Heller (born 1929)
• Heloise (1101–1162)Template:Ref
• Mary Hesse (born 1924)
• Hildegard of Bingen (1098–1179)Template:Ref Template:Ref
• Hipparchia of Maroneia (4th century BC)
• Jennifer Hornsby (born 1951)Template:Ref
• Rosalind Hursthouse
• Hypatia of Alexandria (370–415)Template:Ref Template:Ref
• Luce Irigaray (born 1930)Template:Ref Template:Ref Template:Ref
• Martha Klein
• Christine Korsgaard
• Julia Kristeva (born 1941)Template:Ref Template:Ref Template:Ref
• Susanne Langer (1895–1985)Template:Ref Template:Ref Template:Ref
• Michèle Le Dœuff (born 1948)Template:Ref Template:Ref
• Leontion (4th century BC)
• Rosa Luxemburg (1871–1919)Template:Ref
• Catherine Macaulay (1731–1791)Template:Ref
• Penelope Maddy
• Ruth Barcan Marcus (born 1921)Template:Ref Template:Ref
• Harriet Martineau (1802–1876)Template:Ref Template:Ref
• Damaris Cudworth Masham (1659–1708)Template:Ref Template:Ref Template:Ref Template:Ref
• Mechthild of Magdeburg (1210–1285)Template:Ref
• Mary Midgley (born 1919)Template:Ref
• Ruth Millikan (born 1933)Template:Ref
• Iris Murdoch (1919–1999)Template:Ref Template:Ref
• Ioanna Kucuradi (born 1936)
• Nancey Murphy (born 1951)
• Judith Sargent Murray (1751–1820)Template:Ref
• Martha Nussbaum (born 1947)Template:Ref Template:Ref
• Onora O'Neill (born 1941)Template:Ref Template:Ref
• Janet Radcliffe Richards (born 1944)Template:Ref
• Ayn Rand (1905–1982)Template:Ref
• Rosemary Radford Ruether (born 1936)
• Anna Maria van Schurman (1607–1678)Template:Ref Template:Ref
• Lady Mary Shepherd (1777–1847)Template:Ref Template:Ref
• Sor Juana (1648–1695)Template:Ref
• Anne Louise Germaine de Staël (1766–1817)Template:Ref
• L. Susan Stebbing (1885–1943)Template:Ref
• Edith Stein (1891–1942)Template:Ref
• Gabrielle Suchon (1631–1703)Template:Ref
• Harriet Taylor Mill (1807–1858)Template:Ref Template:Ref Template:Ref
• Teresa of Avila (1515–1582)Template:Ref
• Judith Jarvis Thomson (born 1929)Template:Ref Template:Ref Template:Ref
• Baroness Mary Warnock (born 1924)
• Simone Weil (1909–1943)Template:Ref Template:Ref Template:Ref Template:Ref
• Victoria Lady Welby (1837–1912)Template:Ref
• Mary Wollstonecraft (1759–1797)Template:Ref Template:Ref Template:Ref Template:Ref Template:Ref Template:Ref
• Frances Wright (1795–1852)Template:Ref
• Dorothy Maud Wrinch (1894–1976)

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Women in philosophy