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. Stone earned a D.Phil. degree from the University of Sussex in 1998 for her dissertation on Hegel and feminist philosophy, titled "Sexual Difference and the Philosophy of Nature: Hegel, Irigaray and the Material." Prior to joining Lancaster University in 2002, she held a temporary lectureship and a research fellowship at Cambridge University. Her research interests encompass feminist philosophy, continental European philosophy, and the history of philosophy. Stone has authored nine books and numerous articles on feminism, German Idealism, Theodor Adorno, Luce Irigaray, Judith Butler, the philosophy of nature, and women in philosophy. One of her widely accessed articles on Academia.edu is on "Essentialism and Anti-Essentialism in Feminist Philosophy." She has also published on philosophy and popular music. Her recent work focuses on women in nineteenth-century British philosophy, including figures like Frances Power Cobbe, Harriet Martineau, and Anna Jameson. Stone has also served as a co-editor for the journal "Hegel Bulletin" and was an interim co-editor of "Hypatia."