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Early Modern Philosophy
People
Staff
- Dr Keith Allen Locke on perception and Margaret Cavendish.
- Dr James Clarke Rousseau's moral psychology, especially his account of amour-propre and political philosophy.
- Dr Johan Gustafsson Jeremy Bentham, John Stuart Mill, Henry Sidgwick and John Locke.
- Dr Owen Hulatt Spinoza's metaphysics.
- Dr David Ingram Rationalist metaphysics (Spinoza & Leibniz)
- Professor Tom Stoneham Berkeley, Margaret Cavendish, Arthur Collier, Richard Burthogge and Edward, Lord Herbert of Cherbury.
- Dr Elisabeth Thorsson (Department of Politics) Hobbes, Locke and the Cambridge Platonists.
- Andrew Ward (Honorary Life Fellow) Hume and Kant.
Honorary visiting professors
- Professor Sarah Hutton The history of early modern philosophy, especially 17th-century British philosophy, with special interests in the Cambridge Platonists and women philosophers.