Prof. Dr. Ruth Edith Hagengruber

Director Center for the History of Women Philosophers and scientists, Faculty of Cultural Studies, Paderborn University

Associated Professorship

Philosophy

Vita

 

Ruth Edith Hagengruber is a German philosopher and Professor of Philosophy at the University of Paderborn.

Hagengruber’s research is dedicated to the rediscovery of women’s alternative contributions to the history of philosophy. Before she founded the Center for the History of Women Philosophers and Scientists, her main research focussed on the history of economics, with a special interest on circular and universality based economics as an approach to integrative economic ethics. She has published on value theory in Feminist Economics and reflects on technical design from a feminist and inclusive point of view, such as autonomous driving, a different approach to labour, and a profound recognition of creative skills.

Hagengruber is founder and director of the Center for the History of Women Philosophers and Scientists and founder of the research area EcoTechGender. She is editor of the German Springer series Frauen in Philosophie und Wissenschaft  (since 2014), as co-editor of the international Springer series Women in the History of Philosophy and Science (since 2018). For the Center she conceptionalised the first and digital  Encyclopedia of Consice Concepts by Women Philosophers. She founded and co-edits the Journal for the History of Women Philosophers at Brill’s. With De Gruyter Publishing she edits the series Women Philosophers World Heritage Collection.

Since 2019 she serves as Vice-president of the Deutsche Akademikerinnenverband and since 2021 as the Secretary of the International Association of Women Philosophers. From 2011-2019 she served in the Advisory Board of Technology in Society for the Technical University Munich and became Life-member of the International Association of Philosophy of Information Science in 2011.  On 2020 she became elected member of the Leibniz-Sozietät der Wissenschaften zu Berlin. In August 2024 she was appointed member of the FISP Gender Committee.

In 2014 she was awarded the research award ‘Innovationen in der digitalen Hochschullehre’ from Paderborn University; in 2015 she was rewarded the Wiener-Schmidt Award by the Society for Cybernetics and Systems Theory.  In 2016 the Stifterverband awarded the  Online Teaching project ‘Philosophy goes MOOC’ and in 2018, the Center team was awarded the DARIAH-DE research award for the digital presentation of the Encyclopedia of Consice Concepts by Women Philosophers.

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Focus of Work

History of Women Philosophers and Scientists
EcoTechGender. Philosophy of Economics, Technology and Gender.

Research and Practice projects (selection)

Publications (selection)

 

 

Manuscript Editions

(2021-2024) R. E. Hagengruber, H. P. Neumann, J. Muller, A. Wells. Institutions de physique. The Paris Ms Fr. 12265. A Critical and Historical Online Edition. https://historyofwomenphilosophers.org/dcpm/

(2017-2020) R. E. Hagengruber, A. Brown, S. Ertz, U. Kölving. The Saint Petersburg Manuscripts. A Critical and Historical Online Edition. https://historyofwomenphilosophers.org/stp/

Edited Books

(2024) Hagengruber, Ruth Edith. Teaching Women Philosophers. Ideas and Concepts from Women Philosopher’s Writings from more than 2000 Years. Springer. 

(2023) Hagengruber, Ruth Edith. Women Philosophers on Economics, Technology, Environment, and Gender History: Shaping the Future, Rethinking the Past. Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111051802

for more, see: Ruth Edith Hagengruber Publications

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Keywords

History of Women Philosophers and Scientists;
EcoTechGender: Philosophy at the Intersection of Economics, Technology, Gender

Casegroup

Languages and Cultural Studies, Art and Design