Brenda Margaret Almond (née Cohen; 19 September 1937 – 14 January 2023) was a British philosopher, known for her work on philosophy of education and applied ethics.

Among the topics discussed here are confidentiality, autonomy and welfare, the role of the media, legal implications of infection in Britain and the US, coping with the threat of death, along with some theological reflections.

[9] In an opinion piece for the magazine Philosophy Now she accused fellow philosophers of still preferring to “stick to tired and familiar academic debates while the world burns”.

[13][14] She argued regularly for maintenance of the “welfare of the child provision” when legislation was crafted to reflect the changing technologies of birth[15] and raised ethical issues surrounding the use of human embryos.

[19] In an appreciation published by The Guardian,[20] her son Martin Cohen noted that her "authentic voice" was to be found in her best-known title, The Philosophical Quest (1990), a mix of conventional, essentially educational, summaries of the core themes of philosophy, alongside more fluid, creative passages in which the narrator records receiving philosophical letters from a mysterious correspondent called Sophia, even as her later writing centred on defence of the "traditional family" from both social and technological changes.