Elizabeth Farquhar Flower (1914–1995) was an American philosopher and professor of philosophy at the University of Pennsylvania.
Initially interested in medicine, she changed the focus of her studies and in 1939 received a PhD in philosophy from the University of Pennsylvania.
[3] She was one of the earliest women to enter a career in teaching philosophy at universities in the United States.
[2] She taught many students, the most prominent of whom was Martin Luther King Jr., who audited one of her early ethics seminars.
[1][2] Flower also co-edited Morality, Philosophy and Practice in 1989 and was a coauthor of Principales De La Philosofia NordeAmericana[2] She sporadically taught at Columbia (Barnard), Hamilton College, and foreign schools in Peru, Colombia, Chile and Argentina.