Pauline Phemister
Professor
- Philosophy
- School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences
Contact details
- Email: P.Phemister@ed.ac.uk
Address
- Street
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Room 7.08
- City
- 40 George Square, Edinburgh
- Post code
- EH8 9JX
Availability
Consultation Hours: Fridays 3.15pm-4.15pm or by appointment
Background
Pauline Phemister M.A. Ph.D. (Edinburgh) returned to the department in 2005, prior to which she held a British Academy Post-doctoral Fellowship at the University of Oxford and taught at the Universities of Nebraska-Lincoln and Liverpool. She is author of Leibniz and the Natural World (2005), The Rationalists: Descartes, Spinoza, and Leibniz (2006) and Leibniz and the Environment (2016) She is a co-investigator on the AHRC research project, Caring for the Future through Ancestral Time, and local co-ordinator of the CHCI Humanities for the Environment project, Uncertain Human Future.
Responsibilities & affiliations
- Research Advisor, Philosophy
- Course Organiser, Greats
- Associate Editor, British Journal for the History of Philosophy
- Editorial Board memberships, Studia Leibnitiana and Philosophical Quarterly
Undergraduate teaching
History of Modern Philosophy/Environmental Philosophy.
Current courses taught:
Mind and Body in Early Modern Philosophy
Reason and Experience: Seventeenth Century Philosophy
Greats, lectures on Descartes
Pauline Phemister is willing to supervise postgraduate dissertations on topics relating to early modern philosophy and ecological philosophy.
student consultation hours
Fridays 11.30-12.30, or by appointment (semester 1); Fridays 11.10-12.00, or by appointment (semester 2)
Current PhD students supervised
- Owen Kelly (Lead)
- Iliana Litra (Lead)
- Yuanyuan Liu (Lead)
- Antonio Salgado Borge (Lead)
- Shannon Tseng (Lead)
Research summary
Early modern philosophy, especially Rationalists and Locke, Philosophy of Nature. Pauline Phemister is a member of the History of Philosophy research area.