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English women philosophers

Although men have generally dominated philosophical discourse, women have been philosophers throughout the history of the discipline. Ancient examples include Maitreyi (1000 BCE), Gargi Vachaknavi (700 BCE), Hipparchia of Maroneia (active c. 325 BCE) and Arete of Cyrene (active 5th–4th centuries BCE).

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Harriet Martineau

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Harriet Martineau who wrote extensively in the C19th on a wide range of subjects including abolition, and is called the mother of sociology.

8 December 2016

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Featuring: Valerie Sanders, Karen O'Brien, Ella Dzelzainis

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History 19th-century English women writers English women novelists 19th-century English philosophers 19th-century English historians 19th-century English novelists British women essayists Feminism and history English women philosophers 19th-century British economists 19th-century atheists Victorian novelists 19th-century English short story writers British atheism activists English abolitionists English Unitarians English people of French descent English writers with disabilities British scientists with disabilities English atheists Positivists Victorian women writers Writers from Norwich English historical novelists English travel writers English suffragists 19th century Economics
Mary Wollstonecraft

Melvyn Bragg and guests John Mullan, Karen O'Brien and Barbara Taylor discuss the life and ideas of the pioneering British Enlightenment thinker Mary Wollstonecraft.

31 December 2009

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Featuring: Karen O'Brien, John Mullan, Barbara Taylor

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Philosophy French–English translators 18th-century British essayists People from Somers Town, London English philosophers English essayists English women novelists Historians of the French Revolution Scholars of feminist philosophy British women essayists English women philosophers British philosophers of education 18th-century British philosophers English feminist writers, English feminists 18th-century English historians Deaths in childbirth English Unitarians Feminist theorists 18th-century English novelists Founders of English schools and colleges German–English translators Enlightenment philosophers Burials at St Pancras Old Church English educational theorists English travel writers Writers of Gothic fiction English republicans Godwin family 18th century France
Philippa Foot

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss one of the most notable philosophers of the 20th century, who explored why it mattered to be moral and why humans needed virtues to flourish.

16 May 2024

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Featuring: Anil Gomes, Sophie Grace Chappell, Rachael Wiseman

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Philosophy Analytic philosophers Moral realists Atheist philosophers University of California, Los Angeles faculty Fellows of Somerville College, Oxford Virtue ethicists 20th-century English philosophers Wittgensteinian philosophers Fellows of the British Academy British atheists English women philosophers Alumni of Somerville College, Oxford Aristotelian philosophers Philosophy writers Philosophers of love English atheists 20th century