Alison Stone DPhil

Professor Alison Stone, currently working on women in nineteenth-century philosophy. As part of this Alison Stone has edited a collection Frances Power Cobbe: Essential Writings of a Nineteenth-Century Feminist Philosophy (forthcoming, Oxford University Press) and am writing a Cambridge Element on Frances Power Cobbe (forthcoming, Cambridge University Press). Alison Stone co-editing the Oxford Handbook of Nineteenth-Century British and American Women Philosophers, with Lydia Moland, and writing a book about Nineteenth-Century Women Philosophers in Britain. Alison Stone is also interested in the women of German Idealism and Romanticism.

Alison Stone has written seven books: Petrified Intelligence: Nature in Hegel’s Philosophy (SUNY Press, 2004); Luce Irigaray and the Philosophy of Sexual Difference (Cambridge University Press, 2006), supported by a Leverhulme Research Fellowship in 2004-5; An Introduction to Feminist Philosophy (Polity Press, 2007); Feminism, Psychoanalysis, and Maternal Subjectivity (Routledge, 2011); The Value of Popular Music: An Approach from Post-Kantian Aesthetics (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016) - which won the Outstanding Publication Award from the Popular Music Interest Group of the Society for Music Theory; Nature, Ethics and Gender in German Romanticism and Idealism (Rowman and Littlefield, 2018); Being Born: Birth and Philosophy (Oxford University Press, 2019), supported by a Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship.