Gertrude Carman Bussey (January 13, 1888 in New York City[1] – March 12, 1961) was an American academic philosopher and activist for women's rights, civil liberties, and peace.

[2] In 1912, the Open Court Publishing Company produced a French/English version of Man a Machine by Julien Offray de La Mettrie that was founded on Bussey's translation (revised by Mary Whiton Calkins with the help of M. Carret and George Santayana) and included historical and philosophical notes that were condensed and adapted from a thesis on La Mettrie presented by Bussey to Wellesley College.

[11] In the same she discusses various then contemporary naturalistic conceptions of freedom and determinism related to the issue of free will including those of Ernst Haeckel, William James, Henri Bergson and Bernard Bosanquet.

"[3] Her feeling being that "a forthright pacifist" should hold that position,[15] She did however remain active within WILPF and was elected to the international executive committee as a joint chair in 1946.

It was, however, completed by Margaret Tims and published posthumously as Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, 1915-1965: A Record of Fifty Years Work'(1965).

Early claimed that its authors represented "the best of the tradition of activist-scholars" and had produced a study that "is carefully researched, well written, and imbued with insights gained from first-hand knowledge of events and people".