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Old 07-28-2003, 11:19 AM   #25 (permalink)
asaris
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Originally posted by duckznutz
Thanks Asaris . . I think I am actually learning something here! Just a question though . . . are there any female philosophers? Or are they as rare as female Monty Python fans?
Not many. Wollstonecraft is the only one I can think of off-hand pre-1900. Since then, Simone de Beauvoir (Sartre's wife), Julia Kristeva, Hannah Arendt, Elizabeth Anscombe, Simone Weil, and Iris Murdoch are really the only ones that come to mind. Even now, there aren't alot of women in grad school (though that's not necessarily from discrimination -- Philosophy is a male-dominated field, so a lot of women feel intimidated by that, even if there's no intimidation involved.)
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