User:Kevin Gorman/philosophers

Eventually I would like this to be a full-fledged Wikiproject, similar to Keilana's WikiProject Women scientists, but for now I'm going to start this off in user space.

Wikipedia has significant systemic bias; around 90% of our contributors are men. In a similar vein, philosophy as a field has significant systemic bias - women philosophers are less likely to be cited/written about/hold named professorships etc than their male compatriots are, even when they've made equally significant contributions to their field. Unfortunately, the bias of Wikipedia compounds the bias already found in philosophy. As a result, our coverage of women philosophers is horrible. Until recently, there wasn't even an article about Alison Jaggar, a philosopher who taught the first feminist philosophy class ever. I know we can't (at least in a reasonable amount of time) correct this imbalance, but I do think we can at least mitigate it. Until I lauch this as a fully-fledged Wikiproject, I'm going to use this as a space to collect the names of likely notable but not currently covered women philosophers. In my to-do table, I'll indicate why I think they are likely notable (although I may not do so instantly.)

Please feel free to edit this table by adding more people, adding more sources, etc. If you don't think someone is notable, please leave a note with a reason why, but please don't outright delete their entry. This is definitely not an all-inclusive list, I could list fifty more notable women philosophers just off the top of my head. I'll be expanding the list as time goes by, but welcome others to expand it, too.

And, of course, if you have the time - please, write about one of these women!

Missing notable women philosophers

 * Sybol Cook Anderson
 * Margaret Atherton
 * Anita Avramides
 * Susan Babbitt
 * Bat-Ami Bar on
 * Dorit Bar-on
 * Rachel Barney
 * Elizabeth Barnes
 * Margaret Batton
 * Francoise Baylis
 * Karen Bennett (was a redirect to a minor election, now [2016] an article on a rower, disambiguation will be needed with the philosopher)
 * Debra Bergoffen
 * Samantha Brennan
 * Rachael Briggs
 * Sarah Buss
 * Claudia Card
 * Tina Chanter
 * Julia Driver
 * Susan Dwyer
 * Delia Graff Fara
 * Hannah Ginsborg
 * Marjorie Silliman Harris (1890-1976)
 * Verity Harte
 * Barbara Herman
 * Hide Ishiguro
 * Ann Jaap Jacobson
 * Agnieszka Jaworska
 * Karen Jones - Currently a businessperson. Examine notability and either disambiguate, move existing page to Karen Jones (Businessperson) (or delete it,) or write the philosopher as Karen Jones (Philosopher)
 * Patricia Kitcher - she meets black and white notability, but the page needs a rewrite w/ citations
 * Kathrin Koslicki
 * Rebecca Kukla
 * Helen Longino - already exists, but needs a rewrite w/ some citations
 * Sarah-Jane Leslie
 * Maggie Little
 * Mary Beth Mader
 * Sharon Meagher
 * Susan Sauve Meyer
 * Sarah Moss
 * Mary Mothersill (deceased)
 * Jennifer Nagel
 * Dorothea Olkowski
 * Ruth Anna Putnam
 * Deborah Satz
 * Sally Sedgwick
 * Diana Raffman
 * Mary Rawlinson (redirect to singer Bertha Rawlinson)
 * Connie Rosati
 * Carol Rovane
 * Nancy Tuana

Useful sources for writing about women philosophers

 * Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy (unfortunately, generally requires a subscription or library access)
 * The American Philosophical Association Committee on the Status of Women's Highlighted Philosopher section
 * The Women's Review of Books
 * Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews
 * Bryn Mawr Classical Reviews
 * If you can access it through an academic library, EBSCO's Philosopher's Index is a fantastic way to find book reviews
 * APA Committee on the State of Women: Databases, Lists, List-Serves, Blogs, and Wikis
 * Women of Philosophy: An online database collecting information about women currently working in philosophy and their research
 * Women Philosophers’ Journal, Unesco, translated from french into english.

Formerly missing notable women philosophers

 * Amélie Rorty
 * Ruth Chang
 * Helen Beebee
 * Laurie Shrage
 * Alison Jaggar
 * Jenann Ismael
 * Naomi Scheman
 * Margaret Urban Walker
 * Susan Brison
 * Virginia Held
 * Seana Shiffrin
 * Peggy DesAutels
 * Georgia Warnke
 * Carla Fehr
 * Chris Cuomo
 * Sally Scholz
 * Anita Superson
 * Charlotte Witt
 * Kathryn Norlock
 * Nancy Snow
 * Ofelia Schutte
 * Miriam Solomon
 * Juliet Floyd
 * Susanna Schellenberg
 * Jennifer Whiting
 * Carrie Figdor
 * Teresa Blankmeyer Burke
 * Ann Garry
 * Amie Thomasson
 * Joan Callahan
 * Nancy Sherman
 * Frances Egan
 * Valerie Tiberius
 * Amy Allen (Philosopher)
 * Lydia Goehr
 * Susanne Sreedhar
 * Alia Al-Saji
 * Margaret MacDonald (philosopher) (c. 1907-1956)
 * Mary Kate McGowan
 * Cynthia Willett
 * Elisabeth Camp
 * Noëlle McAfee
 * Sharon Lloyd
 * Ewa Ziarek
 * Diana Tietjens Meyers
 * Peg O'Connor
 * Mary G. Dietz
 * Ann Cudd
 * Louise Antony
 * Nomy Arpaly
 * Naomi Zack
 * Peg Birmingham
 * Rae Helen Langton
 * Alison McIntyre
 * Eva Kittay
 * Lynne Tirrell
 * Marcia Baron
 * Penelope Deutscher
 * Mary Louise Gill
 * Jessica Wilson
 * Holly Martin Smith
 * Jennifer Lackey
 * Gail Fine
 * Carrie Ichikawa Jenkins
 * Susanna Siegel
 * Patricia Greenspan
 * Béatrice Longuenesse