Lisa Shapiro

Invited Researcher at Maison Suger Stay in France: from January 24th to February 28th, 2022

Lisa Shapiro is a professor of philosophy at Simon Fraser University in British Columbia, Canada. She is editor and translator of Correspondence of Princess Elisabeth of Bohemia and René Descartes (Chicago 2007), co-editor of Emotions and Cognitive Life in Medieval and Early Modern Philosophy (Oxford 2013), editor of Pleasure: A History (Oxford, 2018) and most recently co-editor of Early Modern Philosophy: An Anthology (Broadview 2021), which opens up the possibility of including women philosophers in history of modern philosophy courses. She is the PI of the Extending New Narratives Partnership, an international funding project of SSHRC.

Research theme

The philosophy of the mind and the education of women in the seventeenth century.

Lisa Shapiro's current research focuses in particular on the place of women in the history of philosophy and the way in which the philosophical canon is constituted and therefore how the philosophical canon can change.

Keywords:

Modern day philosophy, feminism and philosophy, philosophy of mind (perception and emotions), moral psychology, philosophy of identity

Selected Publications

  •  « La princesse Elisabeth et les défis de la philosophie », dans Elisabeth de Bohême (1618-1680). Un philosophe en contexte historique. Sabrina Ebbersmeyer et Sarah Hutton (eds.) Springer, (sous presse).
  • "Descartes et Spinoza sur les passions primitives : pourquoi si différent ?" Dans Liberté, action et motivation dans l'éthique de Spinoza. Noa Naaman Zauderer et Thomas Vinci (dir.). Routledge, 2019, p. 62-81.
  • « L'amour, l'ambition et l'amitié : Marie Thiroux D'Arconville sur la passion, l'agencement et la vertu » pour Essais sur les femmes philosophes de l'époque moderne, éds. Eileen O'Neill et Marcy Lascano, Kluwer, 2019.
  • "La princesse Elisabeth de Bohême en tant que cartésienne", dans Oxford Handbook of Descartes and Cartesianism , éd. Tad Schmaltz et Steven Nadler. Oxford University Press, 2019, p. 287-302.
  • "Conscience de soi et conscience de soi : Spinoza sur le désir et l'orgueil", dans Mind, Body, and Morality , édité par Martina Reuter et Frans Svensson. Routledge, 2019, p. 143-156.
  • « Assumer l'autorité épistémique ou devenir une chose pensante », Actes de la société aristotélicienne , 118, 3, (2018), 1-20.

 

Research topics
feminism
identity
moral
philosophy
psychology
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Published at 28 January 2022