B.A. (UTas), Ph.D. (Monash, 2000)
Current appointment:
Australian Research Council Future Fellow, Monash University
Research
My main area of specialisation is the history of philosophy (c. 1650-1750), with a particular focus on women philosophers of the early modern period. I am currently engaged in a large ARC-funded project on the seventeenth-century feminist philosopher, Mary Astell (1666-1731). As part of this project, I am preparing a modernised edition of Astell’s The Christian Religion as Profess’d by a Daughter of the Church of England for The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe: Toronto series and Iter Publishing. This work is the most mature and comprehensive statement of Astell’s philosophical thought, containing her ontological and cosmological arguments for the existence of God, her rationalist arguments for the real distinction between mind and body, and a counter-argument to the Lockean view that God might bestow matter with the power of thought. To complete my work for this edition, in September-October 2012, I was a Visiting Fellow at the Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies at the University of Toronto, Canada.
This year (2013), I will be completing a monograph on Astell’s philosophy, with the aim of examining her epistemology, theology, metaphysics, feminism, and politics from the point of view of her theory of virtue.
Together with Assoc. Prof. Karen Green, I will be organising the 2016 Symposium for the International Association of Women Philosophers (IAPh), to be held at Monash University, Melbourne.
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Contact
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