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Professor Alison Stone, DPhil

26th June 2023

is Professor of Philosophy at Lancaster University. Her interests span feminist philosophy, the history of philosophy, continental European philosophy, aesthetics and ethics. Her most recent books are Being Born: Birth and Philosophy (Oxford University Press, 2019), Frances Power Cobbe: Essential Writings of a Nineteenth-Century Feminist Philosopher (Oxford University Press, 2022), Frances Power Cobbe (Cambridge University Press, 2022), and Women Philosophers in Nineteenth-Century Britain (Oxford University Press, 2023). She is currently working on women’s thought about animal ethics in nineteenth-century Britain, including Cobbe, Anna Kingsford, Annie Besant, Helena Blavatsky, Vernon Lee, and Julia Wedgwood.