Professor Alison Stone

Professor

Research Interests

My research interests span feminist philosophy, post-Kantian continental philosophy, the history of philosophy, and aesthetics.

Currently I am working on women in nineteenth-century philosophy. My work on this includes the edited collection Frances Power Cobbe: Essential Writings of a Nineteenth-Century Feminist Philosophy (Oxford University Press, 2022), a Cambridge Element on Frances Power Cobbe (Cambridge University Press, 2022), Women Philosophers in Nineteenth-Century Britain (Oxford University Press, 2023), Women on Philosophy of Art: Britain 1770-1900 (Oxford University Press, 2024), and most recently the Oxford Handbook of Nineteenth-Century British and American Women Philosophers, co-edited with Lydia Moland (Oxford University Press, 2025).

I have created the Julia Wedgwood site (http://juliawedgwood.org), a website making available the writings of this neglected Victorian philosopher.

Previously I've published books on Hegel's philosophy of nature, Luce Irigaray, feminist philosophy, popular music, German idealism, and birth. I've held a Philip Leverhulme Prize, a Leverhulme Fellowship and a Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship.

I've also edited the Edinburgh Critical History of Nineteenth-Century Philosophy (Edinburgh University Press, 2011), and co-edited the Routledge Companion to Feminist Philosophy (Routledge, 2017).

I have co-edited the journal the Hegel Bulletin and been an associate editor and interim co-editor of Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy.

I am particularly keen to supervise PhD projects in relation to my current interests in nineteenth-century women philosophers.

Selected Publications

Alienation from nature and early German romanticism
Stone, A. 02/2014 In: Ethical Theory and Moral Practice. 17, 1, p. 41-54. 14 p.
Journal article

Sexual polarity in Schelling and Hegel
Stone, A. 03/2014 In: Reproduction, race and gender in the early life sciences. New York : SUNY Press ISBN: 9781438449494.
Chapter

Sexual difference
Stone, A. 02/2015 In: Oxford handbook of feminist theory. Oxford : Oxford University Press
Chapter

Hegel and Twentieth-Century French Philosophy
Stone, A. 1/08/2017 In: The Oxford Handbook of Hegel. Oxford : Oxford University Press p. 697-717. 21 p. Electronic ISBN: 9780199355228.
Chapter

Hegel, Naturalism and the Philosophy of Nature
Stone, A. 05/2013 In: Hegel Bulletin. 34, 1, p. 59-78. 20 p.
Journal article

Feminism, Psychoanalysis and Maternal Subjectivity
Stone, A. 12/10/2011 London : Routledge. 194 p. ISBN: 978-0-415-88542-3.
Book

The Romantic Absolute
Stone, A. 2011 In: British Journal for the History of Philosophy. 19, 3, p. 497-517. 21 p.
Journal article

Natality and mortality : rethinking death with Cavarero.
Stone, A. 08/2010 In: Continental Philosophy Review. 43, 3, p. 353-372. 20 p.
Journal article

Against Matricide: Rethinking subjectivity and the maternal body.
Stone, A. 1/01/2012 In: Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy. 27, 1, p. 118-138. 21 p.
Journal article

The Edinburgh Critical History of Nineteenth-Century Philosophy
Stone, A. 06/2011 Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press. 344 p. ISBN: 9780748635665.
Book

Luce Irigaray and the Philosophy of Sexual Difference.
Stone, A. 2006 Cambridge : Cambridge University Press. 260 p. ISBN: 0-5218-6270-1.
Book

Petrified Intelligence: Nature in Hegel's Philosophy.
Stone, A. 2004 SUNY Press. 224 p. ISBN: 0-7914-6294-3.
Book

An Introduction to Feminist Philosophy.
Stone, A. 2007 Polity Press. 248 p. ISBN: 978-0745638829.
Book

Birth and Philosophy
01/10/2017 → 30/09/2019
Research

A Companion to Feminist Philosophy
01/07/2013 → 01/10/2017
Research

Early German Romanticism
01/07/2011 → 31/12/2014
Research

Palgrave Macmillan (Publisher)
Editorial activity

Honorable mention - Journal of the History of Philosophy book prize
Other distinction

Outstanding Publication Award
Prize (including medals and awards)

  • Centre for Gender Studies
  • Continental Philosophy and Critical Theory
  • Philosophy of Mind and Psychology