Alison Stone

Professor Alison Stone is a faculty member in the Department of Politics, Philosophy and Religion at Lancaster University. She holds a DPhil from the University of Sussex (1998), previously held positions at the University of Cambridge, and has been at Lancaster since 2002. Her research focuses on feminist philosophy, post-Kantian continental philosophy, the history of philosophy, and aesthetics, with a particular emphasis on 19th-century women philosophers and the aesthetics of popular music.

Her major works include the edited collection Frances Power Cobbe: Essential Writings of a Nineteenth-Century Feminist Philosophy (2022), Women Philosophers in Nineteenth-Century Britain (2023), and the forthcoming Oxford Handbook of Nineteenth-Century British and American Women Philosophers (2025). She has also contributed to journals like Hegel Bulletin and Hypatia.

• Education: DPhil in Philosophy, University of Sussex (1998)
• Awards: Philip Leverhulme Prize, Leverhulme Fellowship, Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship
• Teaching: Nineteenth-Century Philosophy and History of Women Philosophers

Her research spans German Idealism (Hegel, Schelling), feminist critiques of maternal subjectivity, and interdisciplinary studies linking philosophy with music and art. She co-edits the Routledge Companion to Feminist Philosophy and actively supervises PhD students exploring 19th-century women philosophers.

Stone is affiliated with Lancaster's Centre for Gender Studies and Continental Philosophy and Critical Theory research groups. Her work bridges historical philosophy with contemporary feminist and aesthetic concerns, emphasizing marginalized voices in intellectual history.