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There have been many great female scientists, novelists, artists, etc. But which female philosophers should replace Plato, Aristotle, Erasmus, Descartes, Hobbes, Locke, Hume, Kant, Mill, Nietzsche, Habermas, or Singer? Serious suggestions welcome.https://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/2018/03/14/oxford-university-set-feminise-curriculum-requesting-inclusion/ …
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To be fair, I have plenty of respect for Mary Wollstonecraft, Jane Addams, Susanne Langer, Ayn Rand, Hannah Arendt, Simone de Beauvoir, Janet Radcliffe-Richards, Deirdre McCloskey, etc. But would any make the top 30 in terms of historical influence?
Curie was a scientist. And quick -- name a single influential idea from Hildegard.
There are many contemporary female philosophers (Patricia Churchland, Susan Haack, Ruth Millikan, Martha Nussbaum, Susanna Siegel), but historically there have been fewer women, and perhaps their work did not have the same impact as that of the male philosophers.
Agreed; there's a much stronger case for a more equal sex ratio in contemporary philosophy courses.
Singer is the most influential philosopher in the world, in utilitarianism, bioethics, Effective Altruism, applied ethics, etc. Anscombe had influence only within academic philosophy, apparently.
An obvious reply would be that philosophy has historically been driven by prestige rather than by objective verification of the verifiable accomplishments of talent, making it impossible for talented women or men to go down in history.
Nietsche and Ayn Rand and Plato and Freud were all creatively wrong. I see no basis on which to say that Rand was wrong about philosophy in a less interesting way than Nietsche or more odiously than Freud, and had she been male I expect she would be considered less icky.
There's a pretty good argument to be made for Hannah Arendt
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