Philosophy Resources
Women Philosophers(By time period, with dates and pairing suggestions when applicable. I've included only those who have passed away. Many more could be added.)
Ancient
● Hippo (ca. 12th-c. B.C.) ● Themistoclea (6th-c. B.C.) ● Theano I of Crotona (6th-c. B.C.) ● Chilonis (6th-c. B.C.) ● Cleobulina of Rhodes (ca. 570 B.C.) ● Arignote (6th-5th-c. B.C.) ● Myia (6th-5th-c. B.C.) ● Damo (6th-5th-c. B.C.) ● Sara (6th-5th-c. B.C.) ● Diotima of Mantinea (5th-c. B.C.) ● Aspasia of Miletus (ca. 470–445 B.C.) ● Perictione I (ca. 449 B.C.) ● Arete of Cerene (5th-4th-c. B.C.) ● Aesara of Lucania (ca. 425 B.C.–100 AD) ● Theano II (ca. 425 B.C.–100 AD) ● Perictione II (ca. 425 B.C.–100 AD) ● Nicarete (4th-c. B.C.) ● Lasthenia of Mantinea (347 B.C.) ● Timycha (ca. 4th-c. B.C.) ● Themista of Lampsacus (306 B.C.) ● Leontium (4th-3rd-c. B.C.) ● Theophilia (4th-3rd-c. B.C.) ● Hipparchia the Cynic (365–285 B.C.) ● Asclepigenia of Athens (ca. 375 B.C.) ● Axiothea of Philius (347 B.C.) ● Batis of Lampsacus (306 B.C.) ● Echecratia (3rd-c. B.C.) ● Phintys of Sparta (2nd-c. B.C.) ● Porcia (d.42 B.C.) ● Pamphila (1st-c. B.C.) ● Caerellia (1st-c. B.C.) ● Ban Zhao (ca. 35–100 AD) ● Fannia (56–107AD) ● Anteia (70–79AD) ● Arria the Elder (d.42 AD) ● Arria the Younger (66–107 AD) ● Clea (1st-2nd-c. AD) ● Eurydice (1st-2nd-c. AD) ● Julia Domna (170–217 AD) ● Ptolemais (2nd-3rd-c. AD) ● Magnilla (2nd-3rd-c. AD) ● Arria (3rd-c. AD) ● Geminae (3rd-c. AD) ● Salonina Cornelia (260–268 AD) ● St. Catharine of Alexandria (d.307 AD) ● Sosipatra (327–379 AD) ● Makrina the Younger (ca. 330–379 AD) ● Hypatia of Alexandria (370–415 AD) ● Asclepienia (ca.375 AD) ● Ampliclea (4th-c. AD) ● Eudocia-Athenais (ca.401–460 AD) ● Anthusa (5th-c. AD)
Medieval
● Hrosvith (Roswitha) of Gandersheim (935–1101) ● Lady Murasaki Shikibu (978–1014) └ Shinto, Buddhism● Eudocia (11th-c.) ● Anna Comnena (1083–1148) ● Héloïse d'Argenteuil (1090–1164) └ Peter Abelard ● Trotula de Ruggiero of Salerno (11th-c.) ● St. Hildegard von Bingen (1098–1179) └ Augustine ● Herrad of Hohenbourg (1130–1195) ● Beatrice of Nazareth (1200–1268) ● Mechtild of Magdeburg (ca. 1207–1282) ● Marguerite Porete (1250–1310) ● Hadewijch (Hadewych) of Antwerp (13th-c.) ● St. Birgitta of Sweden (1303–1373) ● Dame Juliana of Norwich (1342-1416) ● St. Catherine of Siena (1347–1380)
Renaissance
● Christine de Pisan (1364–1431) ● Battista de Montefeltro Malatesta (1383–1450) ● Dorotea Bocchi of Bologne (ca. 1390s–1430s) ● Panypersebasta (14th-c.) ● Novella (14th-c.) ● St. Catherine of Bologna (1413–1463) ● Ginevra Nogarola (1417–1461) ● Isotta Nogarola (1418-1466) ● Cecilia Gonzaga (1425–1451) ● Costanza Varano (1426–1466) ● Cassandra Fedele (1465–1558) ● Laura Cereta of Brescia (1469-1499) ● Beatrix Galindo (1474–1534) ● Margaret More Roper (1505–1544) ● Tullia d'Aragona (c. 1510–1556) ● St. Teresa of Ávila (1515-1582) ● Fulvia Olympia Morata (1526–1555) ● Lady Jane Grey (La Latina) (1537–1554) ● Tarquinia Molza of Modena (1542–1617) ● Moderata Fonte (1555–1592) ● Olivia de Nantes Barrera Sabuco (1562–1625) └ 16th-c. Spanish medicine Marie le Jars de Gournay (1565–1645) ● Margherita Sarrocchi (1569–1618) ● Lady Deborah Moody (1586–1659) ● Madame de Rambouillet (née Catherine de Vivonne) (1588–1655) ● Marquise de Sablé (née Madeleine de Souvré) (1599–1698)
Modern
● Bathsua Reginald Pell Makin (1600-1675) ● Anna Maria van Schurman (1607–1678) └ Kant ● Madeleine de Scudéry (1607–1701) ● Anne Bradstreet (1612–1672) ● Elisabeth of Bohemia, Princess Palatine (1618–1680) └ Descartes ● Duchess de Longueville (née Ann de Bourbon) (1619–1679) ● Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle (1623–1673) ● Cristina (Kristina) Wasa, Queen of Sweden (1626–1689) ● Mme. de Sévigné (née Marie de Rabutin-Chantal) (1626–1696) ● Anne Finch Conway, Viscountess (1631–1679) └ Leibniz ● Mme. de LaFayette (née Marie Madeleine Priochede la Vergne) (1634–1692) ● Mme. de Maintenon (Françoise d’Aubigné) (1635–1719) ● Mme. de Grignan (1646–1705) ● Elena Lucrezia Cornaro Piscopia (1646-1684) ● Aphra Behn (1640–1689) ● Elena Cornaro (1646–1684) ● Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz (1651–1695) ● Mme. Dacier (née Anne Lefebrve) (1654–1720) ● Lady Mary Lee Chudleigh (1656–1710) ● Damaris Cudworth Masham (1659–1708) └ Locke ● Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea (Ardelia) (1661-1720) ● Mary Astell (1666–1731) └ Locke ● Catharine Trotter Cockburn (1679–1749) └ Locke ● Caroline of Brandenburg-Ansbach (1683–1787) ● Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689–1762) ● Gabrielle Émilie le Tonnelier de Breteuil du Châtelet-Lomont (1706–1749) ● Laura Maria Caterina Bassi-Veratti (1711–1778), philosopher and physicist ● Maria Gaetana Agnesi (1718–1799) ● Mercy Otis Warren (1728–1814) ● Catharine Sawbridge Macaulay-Graham (1731–1791) └ Hobbes ● Sophia, a Person of Quality [pseud.] ● Hannah More (1745–1833) ● Olympe de Gouges (née Marie de Gouzes) (1748-1793) ● Judith Sargent Murray (1751–1820) ● Marie-Jeanne Philipon (Mme. Roland) (1754–1793) ● Mary Wollstonecraft (1759–1797) └ Rousseau ● Mme. de Condorcet (1764–1822) ● Mme. Germaine de Staël (1766–1817) ● Lady Mary Shepherd (1777–1847) └ Berkeley ● Mary (Fairfax) Somerville (1780-1872) ● Anna (Doyle) Wheeler (1785-1848) ● Frances Wright (1795–1852)
19th-Century
● Catharine Ward Beecher (1800–1878) ● Hortense Allart de Méritens (a.k.a. Prudence de Saman L'Esbatx) (1801-1879) ● Harriet Martineau (1802–1876) ● Sarah Helen Whitman (1803–1878) ● Jenny Poinsard d’Hericourt (1809–1875) ● Margaret Fuller (1810–1850) ● George Eliot (Mary Ann/Marian Evans) (1819–1880) ● Constance Naden (1858–1889), poet and philosopher ● Harriet Hardy Taylor Mill (1807–1858) └ J. S. Mill Clarisse Coignet (b. 1824) ● Edna Dow Cheney (1824–1904) ● Antoinette Brown Blackwell (1825–1921) ● Clemence Royer (1830–1902) ● Helena Blavatsky (1831–1891) ● Julie Velten Favre (1834–1896) ● Victoria, Lady Welby (1837–1912) ● Eliza Sunderland (1839–1910) ● Marietta Kies (1853–1899) ● Juliette Lambert la Messine Adam (1836–1936) ● E. E. Constance Jones (1842–1922) ● Christine Ladd-Franklin (1847–1930) ● Sophie Willock Bryant (1850–1922) ● Clara Marie Hitchcock (1853–1933) ● Helen Magill White (1853–1944) ● Julia Henrietta Gulliver (1856–1940) ● Eliza Richtie (1856–1933) ● Helene von Druskowitz (1856–1918) ● May Preston Slosson (1858–1943) ● Anna Julia Cooper (1858–1964) ● Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860–1935) ● Helen Dendy Bosanquet (1860–1925)
Contemporary
● Jane Addams (1860–1935) └ Dewey ● Lou Andreas-Salomé (1861–1937) ● Elizabeth S. Haldane (1862–1937) ● Mary Whiton Calkins (1863–1930) ● May Sinclair (1863–1946) ● Caroline Miles Hill (1866–1951) ● Alice Julia Hamlin Hinman (1867–1934) ● Ellen Bliss Talbot (1867–1968) ● Blanche Zehring (1867–1950) ● Emma Goldman (1869–1940) ● Beatrice Edgell (1871–1948/fl.1875) ● Evelyn Underhill (1875–1941) ● Ivy MacKenzie (1877–1959/fl.1902) ● Helen Knight (fl.1877) ● Grace Mead Andrus de Laguna (1878–1978) ● Nina Hirschensohn Alderblum (1882–1974) ● L. Susan Stebbing (1885–1943) ● Katherine Everett Gilbert (1886–1952) ● Una Mirrieles Bernard Sait (1886-?) ● Helen Huss Parkhurst (1887–1959) ● Hedwig Conrad-Martius (1888–1966) ● Sister Mary Patricia Garvey (1888–1952) ● Karin Costelloe Stephen (1889–1953) ● Marjorie Silliman Harris (1890–1976) ● Edith Stein (1891–1942) ● Phyllis Ackerman (1893–1977) ● Dorothy Wrinch Nicholson (1894–1976) ● Susanne K. Langer (1895–1985) ● Gerda Walther (1897–1977) ● E. M. Whetnall (fl.1900) ● Ruth Lydia Saw (1901–1983) ● Ayn Rand (1905–1982), novelist ● Cornelia Johanna de Vogel (1905–1986) ● Alice Ambrose (1906–2001) ● Hannah Arendt (1906–1975), political theorist └ Heidegger ● Margaret MacDonald (1907–1956) ● Helen M. Smith (fl.1907) ● Simone de Beauvoir (1908–1986) └ Sartre ● Simone Weil (1909–1943) ● Margaret Masterman Braithwaite (1910–1986) ● F. Rosamond Shields (fl.1913) ● Sister Mary T. Clark (1913-2014) ● Elizabeth (G.E.M.) Anscombe (1919–2001) └ Wittgenstein ● Iris Murdoch (1919–1999) ● Marilyn McCord Adams (1943-2017) ● Veda Cobb-Smith (1948–1989) ● Iris Marion Young (1949–2006)
Particular Authors(These historical sources were especially instrumental to me as I was writing my dissertation.)
St. Thomas Aquinas
Opera omnia (all works) - in LatinDHS Priory Repository (most works) - in EnglishSumma Theologiæ (O.P. trans.)Summa Theologiæ (Freddoso trans.)Aquinas.cc - parallel text & search featureDe malo - [on Evil]
Søren Kierkegaard
Guide to Kierkegaard's Writings - Biography, AuthorshipSkrifter (sks.dk) - in Danish; w/search feature; all published & unpublished works, plus journals.Fear and Trembling (Lowrie trans.)The Sickness Unto DeathPurity of Heart is To Will One Thing (Steere trans.)Philosophical Fragments (Swenson trans.)
St. John of the Cross
BiographyThe Ascent of Mount Carmel (Peers trans.)Dark Night (Peers trans.)Fr. Réginald Garrigou-Lagrange's Les trois Âges de la Vie Intérieure in which he discusses the Dark Night alongside la nuit réparatrice
St. Pope Gregory the Great
Moralia in Iob - in English; a massive commentary on the Book of Job
The Desert FathersEvagrius of Pontus (Εὐάγριος)
Guide to Evagrius's WritingsPraktikos (Dysinger translation) - Antirrhetikos (Dysinger translation) - "On the Evil Thoughts" [Περὶ διαφορῶν πονηρῶν λογισμῶν] - in Greek; Latin title: De malignis cogitationibus"The Eight Spirits of Wickedness" [Περὶ τῶν οκτῶ πνευμάτων τῆς πονηρίας] - Latin title: De octo spiritibus malitiae
Historical Christian Writings(Not an exhaustive list--I am bound to leave something out by accident.)(And of course: An inclusion here is not necessarily an endorsement of all content therein.)
J.-P. Migne's Cursus Completus (1841-1866)
In J.-P. Migne's Cursus Completus (1841-1866), you can find all the Church Fathers' works (opera omnia) in their original Latin & Greek languages (you can use ccel.org for most translated work). I honestly don't know how this compilation work got lost to history, it's such a massive & amazing work of research. (Includes some commentary & some introductory notes.)✙ Patrologia Græca [Greek Fathers] - in Greek, 161 tomes, up to 15th century.* Google Books/archive.org* Hathitrust record✟ Patrologia Latina [Latin Fathers] - in Latin, 221 tomes, up to 13th century.* Google Books/archive.org* Hathitrust record
Each "tome" equals about 600-700 pages in .pdf (around 150-180MB ea., but you can compress those using an online site to around 35-45MB ea.; then you can make them searchable using OCR on Adobe Acrobat). You can download an entire tome as a free ebook from Google or by using a university login on Hathi.
Christian Classics Ethereal Library (CCEL)
Source: Philip Schaff's edited volumes - includes Ante-Nicene & Post-Nicene era
A Puritan's Mind
Free e-books of primary works of Theology, particularly of historical Puritan interest. Examples of authors included: John Owen, Jonathan Edwards, Stephen Charnock, Richard Baxter, John Bunyan, etc.
Monergism.com
Free e-books of primary works of Theology, particularly from the Reformed Protestant tradition. Wide range of authors included, for example: Augustine, Blaise Pascal, Martin Luther, F.F. Bruce, C.H. Spurgeon, R.C. Sproul, Cornelius Van Til, Abraham Kuyper, etc.
Other Select Notable Writings
Select Early Christian Writings
Select Medieval Christian Writings
Ælfric, Abbot of Eynsham (955-1010) - Lives of Saints. 2 Vols.St. Hildegard of Bingen (1098-1179) - Selected Writings.
High Middle Ages "Catechetical Handbooks" Frère Lorens d'Orléans’ La Somme le Roi (ca. 1279)--later translated into Middle English, Ayenbite of Inwyt (ca. 1340), and into English, The Book of Vices and Virtues (14th century).
William of Wadington’s Anglo-Norman / French Manuel des Pechiez (ca.1250-1300)--later translated by Robert Mannyng into English, Handlyng Synne (ca. 1303).
Jacob's Well (c.1440): An English Treatise of the Cleansing of Man's Conscience.
16th Century
St. Teresa of Avila (1515-1582) - Foundations. The Interior Castle.
17th Century
J.-J. Surin (1600-1665) - Triomphe de l'amour divin sur les puissances de l'enfer.Brother Lawrence (1614-1691) - The Practice of the Presence of God.J. P. de Caussade (1675-1751) - Abandonment to Divine Providence.
18th Century
Alban Butler (1710-1773) - (Butler's) Lives of the Saints.
19th Century
Ste. Thérèse de Lisieux - Histoire d'une Âme, [The Story of a Soul].
20th Century
St. Mother Teresa of Calcutta - Come Be My Light
Philosophy Blogs to Know(It should go without saying, but: An inclusion here is not necessarily an endorsement of all content therein.)
History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps(HOPWAG) by Peter Adamson
See especially: "20 Rules for History of Philosophy"
P0dcasts to Know(It should go without saying, but: An inclusion here is not necessarily an endorsement of all content therein.)
History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps(HOPWAG) by Peter Adamson
Especially helpful are the Timelines, like this Medieval one, for example.
The Table audio
Produced by the Center for Christian Thought (CCT) at Biola University.