7th poll: your favorite female philosopher

mosesquine December 30, 2016 at 12:58 6025 views 11 comments The Lounge

The question is as follows: Who is your favorite female philosopher?
There are 12 options.

Comments (11)

anonymous66 December 30, 2016 at 13:11 ¶ #42338 0 likes

How about Rebecca Goldstein?

mosesquine December 30, 2016 at 13:32 ¶ #42345 0 likes

Reply to anonymous66
I don't know much about Rebecca Goldstein... But there are some omissions: Sarah McGrath, Marianne Talbot, and so forth.

Agustino December 30, 2016 at 13:34 ¶ #42347 0 likes

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 December 30, 2016 at 13:45 ¶ #42349 0 likes

I voted for Gillian Russell, but Anscombe would be a rational choice, too.

anonymous66 December 30, 2016 at 13:49 ¶ #42350 0 likes

Rosalind Hursthouse is someone else I would consider.

Terrapin Station December 30, 2016 at 14:02 ¶ #42353 0 likes

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 December 30, 2016 at 14:12 ¶ #42358 0 likes

Who picked Hannah Arendt? >:O

mosesquine December 30, 2016 at 14:31 ¶ #42362 0 likes

Reply to Terrapin Station
Susan Haack and Ruth Barcan Marcus are unfortunate omissions...

Moliere December 30, 2016 at 22:32 ¶ #42491 0 likes

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 December 31, 2016 at 00:37 ¶ #42544 0 likes

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 December 31, 2016 at 04:59 ¶ #42610 0 likes

Martha Nussbaum is also one of my fave female philosophers, personally. Her work on late antiquity hit home for me.