Tove Pettersen (born 1962 at the island of Hidra) is a Norwegian feminist philosopher.
[2][3] Her work on forgotten women philosophers and on Beauvoir's ethics and humanism have received attention both in Norway and abroad.
[4][5][6] Pettersen received her doctor artium (equivalent to PhD) in philosophy at the University of Oslo (UiO) in 2004 with a dissertation on the ethics of care.
She is a member of the advisory board of Simone de Beauvoir Studies, and from 2015 to 2017 she was a member of the academic board of the Erasmus+ project Gender and Philosophy: Developing learning and teaching practices to include underrepresented groups (GAP).
She has also contributed to the general dissemination of feminist philosophy in Norway and elsewhere through public lectures, interviews,[13] and articles in the press.