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3Sexual Polarity in Schelling and HegelIn Susanne Lettow (ed.), Reproduction, Race, and Gender in Philosophy and the Early Life Sciences, State University of New York Press. pp. 259-281. 2014.
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8The Symbolic Order of the MotherSUNY Press. 2017.Argues that affirming the irreducible differences between men and women can lead to more transformative politics than the struggle for abstract equality between the sexes. In The Symbolic Order of the Mother Luisa Muraro identifies the bond between mother and child as ontologically fundamental to the development of culture and politics, and therefore as key to achieving truly emancipatory political change. Both corporeal development and language acquisition, which are the sources of all thinking…Read more
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9Joanna Baillie's Theory of TragedyThe Journal of Aesthetic Education 58 (1): 25-45. 2024.Joanna Baillie (1762–1851) came to fame in 1798 with the first volume of her Plays on the Passions, which included her theoretical account of drama, including tragedy. This article reconstructs Baillie's theory of tragedy and shows how the theory informs the design of the Plays on the Passions. For Baillie, all human beings have powerful and dangerous passions that we need to learn to regulate. Tragedy can help with this and can serve an educative purpose by presenting us with narratives in whic…Read more
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Idealism and romanticismIn Kristin Gjesdal (ed.), The Oxford handbook of nineteenth-century women philosophers in the German tradition, Oxford University Press. 2023.
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6Julia Wedgwood and the origin of languageIntellectual History Review. forthcoming.This article provides the first detailed modern examination of Julia Wedgwood’s interventions in the Victorian debate about the origin of language. Wedgwood wanted to understand language, consistently with Darwin’s theory of evolution, as having evolved gradually out of other forms of animal behaviour. She focused specifically on imitative behaviours, siding with the imitative or “bow-wow” theory of language which her father Hensleigh Wedgwood also championed. She opposed the conceptualist or “d…Read more
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3Victoria Welby Victoria Welby, by Emily Thomas, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2022, pp. 70. Price: £17.00, ISBN: 9781009345866 (pbk) (review)History of European Ideas 50 (3): 565-567. 2024.Emily Thomas has written a superb short book about the British philosopher Victoria Welby (1837-1913). Working from the 1880s into the early twentieth century, Welby wrote many articles and several...
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2Review of de Jonge, Eccy, Spinoza and Deep Ecology: Challenging Traditional Approaches to Environmentalism (review)Environmental Values 14 (4): 524-527. 2005.
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11Beauvoir and the Ambiguities of MotherhoodIn Laura Hengehold & Nancy Bauer (eds.), A Companion to Simone de Beauvoir, Wiley. 2017.This chapter introduces Beauvoir's conception of motherhood in The Second Sex. Beauvoir sets out to demystify motherhood by presenting women's experiences of pregnancy and mothering in all their difficulty, complexity, and ambivalence. However, Beauvoir works with a contrast between transcendence and immanence which inclines her to interpret pregnancy and maternity in terms of immanence (i.e. unfreedom). This chapter identifies alternative lines of thought in Beauvoir's work which portray matern…Read more
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21Women Philosophers in the Long Nineteenth Century: The German Tradition ed. by Kristin Gjesdal and Dalia Nassar (review)Journal of the History of Philosophy 61 (2): 336-337. 2023.In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:Reviewed by:Women Philosophers in the Long Nineteenth Century: The German Tradition ed. by Kristin Gjesdal and Dalia NassarAlison StoneKristin Gjesdal and Dalia Nassar, editors. Women Philosophers in the Long Nineteenth Century: The German Tradition. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021. Pp. 336. Hardback, $99.00."How plausible, [Dalia Nassar and I] kept asking, is it that women published philosophy in the early modern period and th…Read more
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10Frances Power Cobbe and the Philosophy of AntivivisectionJournal of Animal Ethics 13 (1): 21-30. 2023.Frances Power Cobbe led the Victorian movement against vivisection. Cobbe is often remembered for her animal welfare campaigning, but it is rarely recognized that she approached animal welfare as a moral philosopher. In this article, I examine the philosophical basis of Cobbe's antivivisectionism. I concentrate on her 1875 article “The Moral Aspects of Vivisection,” in which Cobbe first locates vivisection within the historical movement of Western civilization and the tendency for science to sup…Read more
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4Emilia Dilke on AestheticsEstetika: The European Journal of Aesthetics 60 (1): 1-18. forthcoming.This article contributes to recovering the history of women’s contributions to aesthetics by examining Emilia Dilke’s writings on aesthetics from the mid-1860s to the early 1870s. Initially, Dilke took the historicist view that artworks are inescapably the products and expressions of their social and historical circumstances and that art is better, as art, the more it distils its time. Dilke also thought that in the modern world art had separated inexorably from morality and religion. On that ba…Read more
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14Aesthetics and Ethics in Anna Jameson’s Characteristics of WomenJournal of Modern Philosophy 5 (1): 1. 2023.In this paper I contribute to the recovery of women in the history of philosophy by giving the first modern-day philosophical account of the ideas on aesthetics and ethics of Anna Jameson (1794–1860). Although Jameson was massive in her time, she wrote in a place and period, nineteenth-century Britain, and on an area, aesthetics, that the recovery effort has hardly reached yet. Throughout her work Jameson argued that aesthetics and ethics were very closely connected. Here I focus on how she made…Read more
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12Bettina von Arnim's Romantic Philosophy in Die GünderodeHegel Bulletin 43 (3): 371-394. 2022.This article puts forward a philosophical interpretation of Bettina von Arnim's epistolary bookDie Günderode, in the following stages. First I situate von Arnim's work in relation to women's participation in early German Romanticism and idealism. The ideal ofSymphilosophie, which was integral to Romantic epistemology, created possibilities for women to participate in philosophical discussion, albeit not on equal terms with men. This suggested that perhapsSymphilosophiebetween women could be more…Read more
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276Frances Power CobbeCambridge University Press. 2022.This Element introduces the philosophy of Frances Power Cobbe (1822-1904), a very well-known moral theorist, advocate of animal welfare and women's rights, and critic of Darwinism and atheism in the Victorian era. After locating Cobbe's achievements within nineteenth-century British culture, this Element examines her duty-based moral theory of the 1850s and then her 1860s accounts of duties to animals, women's rights, and the mind and unconscious thought. From the 1870s, in critical response to …Read more
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913Women Philosophers in Nineteenth-Century BritainOxford University Press. 2023.Many women wrote philosophy in nineteenth-century Britain, and they wrote across the full range of philosophical topics. Yet these important women thinkers have been left out of the philosophical canon and many of them are barely known today. The aim of this book is to put them back on the map. It introduces twelve women philosophers - Mary Shepherd, Harriet Martineau, Ada Lovelace, George Eliot, Frances Power Cobbe, Helena Blavatsky, Julia Wedgwood, Victoria Welby, Arabella Buckley, Annie Besan…Read more
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14The Aesthetic Theory of Frances Power CobbeBritish Journal of Aesthetics 62 387-403. 2022.This article contributes to recognizing and recovering women’s voices in the history of aesthetics by examining the aesthetic theory put forward in the 1860s by the Anglo-Irish philosopher and feminist Frances Power Cobbe. Cobbe addressed aesthetics and gender, maintaining that there are female geniuses. She addressed art and morality, arguing that art should always aim to express moral truth, and that artworks that express morally good thoughts poorly are artistically better than works that exp…Read more
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2174Frances Power Cobbe: Essential Writings of a Nineteenth-Century Feminist Philosopher (edited book)Oxford University Press. 2022.This volume brings together essential writings by the unjustly neglected nineteenth-century philosopher Frances Power Cobbe (1822-1904). A prominent ethicist, feminist, champion of animal welfare, and critic of Darwinism and atheism, Cobbe was well known and highly regarded in the Victorian era. This collection of her work introduces contemporary readers to Cobbe and shows how her thought developed over time, beginning in 1855 with her Essay on Intuitive Morals, in which she set out her duty-bas…Read more
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20Later Nineteenth-Century Women Philosophers on Mind and Its Place in the WorldJournal of the History of Philosophy 60 (1): 97-120. 2022.ARRAY
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13Routledge Companion to Feminist Philosophy (edited book)Routledge. 2017.The Routledge Companion to Feminist Philosophy is an outstanding guide and reference source to the key topics, subjects, thinkers, and debates in feminist philosophy. Fifty-six chapters, written by an international team of contributors specifically for the Companion, are organized into five sections: Engaging the Past; Mind, Body, and World; Knowledge, Language, and Science; Intersections; Ethics, Politics, and Aesthetics. The volume provides a mutually enriching representation of the several ph…Read more
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29Introduction to nineteenth-century British and American women philosophersBritish Journal for the History of Philosophy 29 (2): 193-207. 2021.Since the 1980s, an immense wave of scholarship has recovered the voices of the many women who contributed to early modern philosophy, transforming our picture of the period. It is now typical for...
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18Martineau, Cobbe, and teleological progressivismBritish Journal for the History of Philosophy 29 (6): 1099-1123. 2020.ABSTRACT In this paper, I reconstruct the views on historical progress of two nineteenth-century English-speaking philosophical women, Harriet Martineau and Frances Power Cobbe. Martineau and Cobbe put forward theories of progress which I classify as versions of teleological progressivism. Their theories are bound up with their accounts of different world civilizations and religions, and their advancement towards either Christianity, for Cobbe, or through and beyond Christianity towards seculari…Read more
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5Materialist Feminism, Toril Moi and Janice Radway (review)Women’s Philosophy Review 17 34-36. 1997.
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12Alison Stone on The Cambridge Companion to Feminism in Philosophy by Miranda Fricker and Jennifer Hornsby (review)Women’s Philosophy Review 27 87-92. 2001.
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4Feminist Interpretations of G. W. F. Hegel, by Patricia Jagentowicz Mills (review)Women’s Philosophy Review 18 60-61. 1998.
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36The Routledge Companion to Feminist Philosophy (edited book)Routledge. 2016.The Routledge Companion to Feminist Philosophy is an outstanding guide and reference source to the key topics, subjects, thinkers, and debates in feminist philosophy. Fifty-six entries, written by an international team of contributors specifically for the _Companion_, are organized into five sections: Engaging the Past Mind, Body, and World Knowledge, Language, and Science Intersections Ethics, Politics, and Aesthetics. The volume provides a mutually enriching representation of the several philo…Read more
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30Being Born: Birth and PhilosophyOxford University Press. 2019.Alison Stone investigates how human existence is conditioned by the fact that it begins with birth. How does birth shape the way we are in the world, and the meaning of our lives? Philosophers have written much about death, but neglected birth. Stone brings natality into philosophical view, offering fascinating insights into the human condition.
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4Women Questions: Essays for a Materialist Feminism (review)Women’s Philosophy Review 14 23-23. 1995.
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