Just what it says.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_women_philosophers
The only one I recognize is Ayn Rand and that's not really what I'm looking for.
Ada Lovelace maybe.
Hannah Arendt and Simone de Beauvoir are very well known. Mme de Stael too, maybe not so much as a philosopher.
And Hypatia, but primarily because of her death.
Important, no.
Hildegard von Bingen
Quote from: Legbiter on September 09, 2014, 07:33:34 AM
Important, no.
Yeah. "Important" and "philosopher" rarely belong in the same sentence.
There are plenty of modern ones. Susan Haack, who is on the list, is one. So was Judith Shklar who for some reason isn't on that list,
LOL, women.
Important female philosophers? Not that I know of.
St. Hildegard was famous. Here's a drawing of her being devoured by a Shoggoth
(https://languish.org/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2FSav8szp.jpg&hash=7c887dcf9005e808ab293f04522b3bd94b6af5b1)
Quote from: Razgovory on September 09, 2014, 12:45:35 PM
St. Hildegard was famous. Here's a drawing of her being devoured by a Shoggoth
:lol:
Did that really happen.
you think a medieval painter would lie about something like that
Pic or it didn't happen.
Quote from: The Brain on September 09, 2014, 02:20:10 PM
Pic or it didn't happen.
Too late, and we will never be able to wash that image from our minds!
Mary Wollstonecraft and Olympe de Gouges come to my mind.
Quote from: Drakken on September 09, 2014, 03:07:10 PM
Mary Wollstonecraft and Olympe de Gouges come to my mind.
They were political philosophers, but I don't know that they were of any particular importance (like almost every other philosopher). Many of the positions de Gouges supported were adopted, if only briefly, during the Republic of Virtue, but she wasn't alone in arguing those positions and, since she was executed by the leaders of the Republic, it isn't likely that they were implementing her specific ideas.
Quote from: MadImmortalMan on September 09, 2014, 04:24:49 AM
Just what it says.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_women_philosophers
The only one I recognize is Ayn Rand and that's not really what I'm looking for.
What kind of man is interested in a intellectual woman?
They are all fat, dress in odd manly style, don't wear make up, and don't work out.
Quote from: Siege on September 09, 2014, 04:08:08 PM
What kind of man is interested in a intellectual woman?
They are all fat, dress in odd manly style, don't wear make up, and don't work out.
On the other hand, the women aren't all that hot, either.
Arendt, Wollstonecraft, Sontag, Greer, de Beauvoir?
Hipparchia
Quote from: grumbler on September 09, 2014, 04:20:13 PM
Quote from: Siege on September 09, 2014, 04:08:08 PM
What kind of man is interested in a intellectual woman?
They are all fat, dress in odd manly style, don't wear make up, and don't work out.
On the other hand, the women aren't all that hot, either.
:D
Rosa Luxemburg? :hmm:
I'm not saying I agree with her, dude. :lol:
Philosophy is a highly academic discipline so exclusion from the upper reached of the academy - is an effective exclusion from doing philosophy. It is probable there were female philosophers in the school of Epicurus (since he taught all and had women disciples) but most of the works of that school were destroyed or suppressed so we don't have them anymore. Same could be true of the Valentinians (Christian gnostics) who had women leaders and teachers but were utterly suppressed.
Quote from: Caliga on September 10, 2014, 09:19:37 AM
I'm not saying I agree with her, dude. :lol:
No, I'm saying that's what she looked like.
For the continental team, Kristeva, Irigaray, Cixous, and Judith Butler all come to mind.
Quote from: Capetan Mihali on September 10, 2014, 10:49:30 AM
For the continental team, Kristeva, Irigaray, Cixous, and Judith Butler all come to mind.
They most certainly do not!