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Prof. Ruth Hagengruber is currently the Head of Philosophy at the University of Paderborn. Her specializations include the philosophy of economics and information science, the history of women philosophers, and in particular the 18th century philosopher and mathematician Émilie Du Châtelet. She is, moreover, the founder and director of the Center for the History of Women Philosophers and Scientists. She also founded the Libori Summer School, which is dedicated to the teaching of the works of women philosophers and scientists, as well as the Encyclopedia of Concise Concepts by Women Philosophers, an online resource for which she functions as editor-in-chief with Prof. Mary Ellen Waithe. In 2006, Prof. Hagengruber created EcoTechGender, a research and teaching area that sees the economics, technology, and gender as factors for the future and which explores the relationships between them. Her most recent scholarly and editing works concern among many other topics, women philosophers and scientists in the early modern period, the thinking of Émilie Du Châtelet, and an ecofeminist standpoint of economic growth.
