Women in philosophy of logic and philosophical logic
In an effort to counter the “logic is for boys” stereotype, here is a list of younger as well as more senior women working in philosophy of logic and philosophical logic in alphabetical order (only those having already obtained their PhD are listed). We hope it can, among other things, be useful as a source of ideas of potential speakers for conference organizers. While it is most certainly true that women are underrepresented in the more ‘logical’ areas of philosophy, the list below suggests that there are quite a few of them doing interesting and important work in the area. Moreover, there is every reason to think that countering the stereotype may have the positive effect of encouraging female students to seriously consider taking up philosophy of logic and philosophical logic as their areas of expertise.
The list was essentially drafted on the basis of responses prompted by a query on Philos-l (the original message can be found here: http://www.ucalgary.ca/~rzach/logblog/2009/06/women-in-philosophy-of-logic-and.html), so it does not have the ambition of being complete; it may very well be that some obvious names have been left out. Please suggest further additions to the list to Catarina Dutilh Novaes (cdutilhnovaes [youknowwhat] yahoo [dot] com)
- Atocha Aliseda (UNAM, Mexico)
- Maria Aloni (Amsterdam)
- Roberta Ballarin (University of British Columbia )
- Ruth Barcan Marcus (Yale)
- Elizabeth Barnes (Leeds)
- Merrie Bergmann (Smith College)
- Arianna Betti (Free University Amsterdam)
- Cristina Bicchieri (Penn)
- Katalin Bimbo (Alberta)
- Patrichia Blanchette (Notre Dame)
- Elke Brendel (Bonn)
- Rachel Briggs ( Sydney )
- Maria Cerezo (Murcia)
- Giovanna Corsi (Bologna)
- Maria Luisa Dalla Chiara (Florence)
- Nancy Davies (Aberdeen)
- Francien Dechesne (Delft)
- Catarina Dutilh Novaes (Amsterdam)
- Marie Duzi (Ostrava)
- Dorothy Edgington (Oxford)
- Iris Einheuser (Duke)
- María José Frápolli Sanz (Universidad de Granada, Spain)
- Juliet Floyd ( Boston )
- Michele Friend (George Washington)
- Mai Gherke (Nijmegen)
- Sujata Ghosh (Groningen)
- Norma Goethe (Cordoba, Argentina)
- Delia Graff Fara (Princeton)
- Dorothy Grover (Canterbury)
- Susan Haack ( Miami )
- Leila Haaparanta ( Tampere )
- Valentina Harizanov (George Washington)
- Rosalie Iemhoff (Utrecht)
- Carrie Jenkins (Nottingham)
- Rosanna Keefe (Sheffield)
- Elaine Landry (Davis)
- Sandra Lapointe (Kansas State)
- Catherine Legg (Waikato)
- Mary Leng (Liverpool)
- Fenrong Liu (Beijing)
- Danielle MacBeth (Haverford)
- Penelope Maddy (Irvine)
- Ofra Magidor ( Oxford )
- María Manzano (Salamanca)
- Patricia Marino (Waterloo)
- Teresa Marques (Lisbon & Barcelona)
- Genoveva Marti (University of Barcelona)
- Concha Martinez (University of Santiago de Compostela , Spain)
- Maricarmen Martinez (Universidad de los Andes, Colombia)
- Marie McGinn ( York )
- Joke Meheus (Ghent)
- Sara Negri (Helsinki)
- Itala D’Ottaviano (Campinas)
- Jeanne Peijnenburg (Groningen)
- Judy Pelham (York University, Canada)
- Eva Picardi (Bologna)
- Dawn Phillips ( University of Warwick )
- Francesca Poggiolesi (Brussels)
- Adriane Rini (Massey University)
- Susan Rogerson (Monash)
- Giuseppina Ronzitti (Helsinki)
- Gillian Russell (St. Louis)
- Federica Russo (Louvain)
- Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh ( Oxford )
- Merrilee Salmon (Pittsburgh)
- Maria van der Schaar (Leiden)
- Katrin Schulz (Amsterdam)
- Gila Sher ( San Diego )
- Sun–joo Shin (Yale)
- Sonja Smets ( Groningen )
- Katie Steele (LSE)
- Mariam Thalos (University of Utah)
- Sara Uckelman (Amsterdam)
- Nicla Vassallo (Genova)
- Rineke Verbrugge (Groningen)
- Susan Vineberg (Wayne State University )
- Joan Weiner ( Indiana )
- Nicole Wyatt (Calgary)
- Audrey Yap (Victoria, Canada)
In responses to the query posted on Philos-l, many people also suggested names of women working in related areas where the ‘for boys only’ stereotype is also strong. We thought it might be useful to post these too here, even though this list is certainly very incomplete. Also, it may well be that the logic vs. related areas separation is not always entirely accurate (being in fact quite fuzzy itself), so some of the names here may be mis-classified.
Related areas (Philosophy of Science, Philosophy of Mathematics, Mathematics, Mathematical Logic)
- Rachel Ankeny (Adelaide)
- Mohua Banerjee (Kalkota)
- Raffaela Bernardi (Free University of Bozen-Bolzano)
- Marta Bilkova (Prague)
- Lenore Blum (CMU)
- Elisabeth Bouscaren (Paris-Sud 11)
- Ana Bove (Chalmers University of Technology)
- Katarina Britz (Meraka Institute, South Africa)
- Lara Buchak (Berkeley)
- Nancy Cartwright (LSE)
- Elena Castellani (Florence)
- Zoe Chatzidakis (Paris 7)
- Agata Ciabattoni (Technische Universität Wien)
- Helen De Cruz (KULeuven)
- Francoise Delon (Paris 7)
- Isabelle Drouet (Louvain)
- Mirna Dzamonja (East Anglia)
- Claudia Faggian (Università degli Studi di Padova)
- Janet Folina (Macalester College)
- Doreen Frases (Waterloo)
- Rosella Gennari (Free University of Bozen-Bolzano)
- Victoria Gitman (New York City College of Technology)
- Shafi Goldwasser (MIT)
- Emily Grosholz (Penn State)
- Marcia Groszek (Dartmouth)
- Deirdre Haskell (McMaster)
- Katherina Hawley (St Andrews)
- Verena Huber-Dyson (Calgary)
- Juliette Kennedy (Helsinki)
- Julia Knight (Notre Dame)
- Salma Kuhlmann (Saskatchewan)
- Jean Larson (Florida)
- Sabina Leonelli (Exeter)
- Helen Longino (Stanford)
- Milly Maietti (Padua)
- Larisa Maksimova (Sobolev Institute of Mathematics)
- Deborah Mayo (Virginia)
- Phyllis McKay (Kent)
- Margit Messmer (Leeds)
- Mary Morgan (LSE)
- Margareth Morrison (Toronto)
- Joan Rand Moschovakis
- Elena Nogina (BMCC)
- Valeria de Paiva (Cuill, Inc.)
- Alessandra Palmigiano (Amsterdam)
- Olga Pombo (Lisbon)
- Sherrilyn Roush (Berkeley)
- Alexandra Shlapentokh (East Carolina)
- Renata Wasserman (Sao Paulo)
- Carol Wood (Wesleyan)
- Anna Zamansky (Jerusalem College of Engineering)
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