Alison Stone

Alison Stone (born 1972) 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. from the University of Sussex on Hegel and feminist philosophy, and before joining Lancaster University in 2002 she held a temporary lectureship and a research fellowship at Cambridge University.{{cite web|title=Professor Alison Stone: Profile|url=http://www.lancaster.ac.uk/ppr/about-us/people/alison-stone#activities|website=Politics, Philosophy and Religion|publisher=Lancaster University|accessdate=11 March 2016}}

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.{{Cite web|url=http://dailynous.com/2015/02/28/case-for-clarity/|title=A Case for Clarity|last=W|first=Justin|website=Daily Nous|date=28 February 2015 |access-date=2016-03-09}} One of her most frequently viewed articles on Academia.edu is on 'Essentialism and Anti-Essentialism in Feminist Philosophy'.{{Cite web|url=https://lancaster.academia.edu/AlisonStone|title=Alison Stone {{!}} Lancaster University - Academia.edu|website=lancaster.academia.edu|access-date=2016-03-09}} She has also written a book on philosophy and popular music.{{Cite web|url=http://www.3ammagazine.com/3am/hegel-irigaray-motherhood-feminist-philosophy/|title=Hegel, Irigaray, Motherhood & Feminist Philosophy|website=3:AM Magazine|language=en-US|access-date=2016-03-09|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150907121507/http://www.3ammagazine.com/3am/hegel-irigaray-motherhood-feminist-philosophy/|archive-date=2015-09-07|url-status=dead}} 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{{Cite web|url=http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayJournal?jid=HGL|title=Hegel Bulletin|access-date=2016-03-09}} and was an interim co-editor of Hypatia.{{Cite web|url=http://hypatiaphilosophy.org/np-board/announcement-interim-editors/|title=Announcement of Interim Editors |date=22 July 2017 }}

Works

Her books have been reviewed by Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews,{{cite web |url=https://ndpr.nd.edu/search/?search_keyword=search_authors&as_sitesearch=ndpr.nd.edu&q=more:pagemap:metatags-search_authors:alisonstone |title=Search Alison Stone |website=www.nd.edu |publisher=University of Notre Dame |accessdate=17 March 2016}} The Journal of Speculative Philosophy,{{cite journal |date=2006 |title=Petrified Intelligence: Nature in Hegel's Philosophy (review) |url=https://muse.jhu.edu/journals/jsp/summary/v020/20.1miller.html |journal=The Journal of Speculative Philosophy |publisher=Penn State University Press |volume=20 |issue=1 |pages=65–68 |doi=10.1353/jsp.2006.0014 |accessdate=17 March 2016|last1=Miller |first1=Elaine P. |s2cid=144780743 |url-access=subscription }} the Review of Metaphysics,{{cite journal |date=December 2006 |url=http://pdc-connection.ebscohost.com/c/book-reviews/23543869/petrified-intelligence-nature-hegels-philosophy |journal=Review of Metaphysics |publisher=Philosophy of Education Society, Inc. |title=Petrified Intelligence: Nature in Hegel's Philosophy|volume=60 |issue=2 |page=427 |accessdate=17 March 2016}} and APA Newsletters{{cite journal |date=2013 |title=Feminism, Psychoanalysis, and Maternal Subjectivity |url=http://pdc-connection.ebscohost.com/c/book-reviews/92950596/feminism-psychoanalysis-maternal-subjectivity |journal=APA Newsletters |publisher=American Philosophical Association |volume=13 |issue=1 |page=24 |accessdate=17 March 2016}}

Selected publications

Petrified Intelligence: Nature in Hegel’s Philosophy (2004, SUNY Press, {{ISBN|978-0-7914-6293-5}})
Luce Irigaray and the Philosophy of Sexual Difference (2006, Cambridge UP, {{ISBN|978-0521862707}})
An Introduction to Feminist Philosophy (2007, Polity Press, {{ISBN|9780745638836}})
The Edinburgh Critical History of Nineteenth-Century Philosophy (2011, Edinburgh UP, {{ISBN|9780748635665}})
Feminism, Psychoanalysis, and Maternal Subjectivity (2012, Routledge, {{ISBN|9780415885423}})
The Value of Popular Music: An Approach from Post-Kantian Aesthetics (2016, Palgrave Macmillan).
The Routledge Companion to Feminist Philosophy, co-edited with Ann Garry and Serene Khader (2017, Taylor and Francis, {{ISBN|9781138795921}})
Nature, Ethics and Gender in German Romanticism and Idealism (2018, Rowman & Littlefield International, {{ISBN|978-1-78660-918-2}})
Being Born: Birth and Philosophy (2019, Oxford UP, {{ISBN|9780198845782}})
Frances Power Cobbe: Essential Writings of a Nineteenth-Century Feminist Philosopher (2021, Oxford New Histories of Philosophy series, Oxford UP, {{ISBN|9780197628232}})
Frances Power Cobbe (2022, Cambridge Elements in Women in the History of Philosophy, Cambridge UP, {{ISBN|9781009160964}})

References

External links

{{Official website|http://www.lancaster.ac.uk/ppr/about-us/people/alison-stone}}
[https://lancaster.academia.edu/AlisonStone Alison Stone] on Academia.edu
[https://www.3-16am.co.uk/articles/hegel-irigaray-motherhood-feminist-philosophy Hegel, Irigaray, Motherhood & Feminist Philosophy], Richard Marshall's interview with Alison Stone, in 3:AM Magazine, via 3:16AM, Marshall's philosophy interviews blog

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Category:Academics of Lancaster University

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Category:21st-century British philosophers

Category:20th-century British philosophers

Category:Scholars of feminist philosophy