Professor Alison Stone

Research Interests

My main research interests are in two areas: (1) Feminist philosophy: and (2) Post-Kantian continental philosophy.

I have 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). The book 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). This was supported by 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). Currently I am co-editing the Oxford Handbook of Nineteenth-Century British and American Women Philosophers.

Other topics on which I've written include Adorno, Beauvoir, Judith Butler, Kristeva; ideas of nature; feminist and essentialism; existentialism and atheism.

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

I would be happy to supervise PhD projects on topics in feminist philosophy, post-Kantian European philosophy, or any of the other areas of philosophy that I've written about.