Dr. Patricia Sheridan

Areas of Feminist Research: Early modern philosophy, Locke, early modern women philosophers, history of ethics, feminism (historical and contemporary)

My area of expertise is British philosophy of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, with a special emphasis on women philosophers of this period. Through my research, I hope to bring women's intellectual contributions into the philosophical canon. I have published on Anne Conway and Catherine Trotter Cockburn, and plan to continue working on these and other women (including Lady Mary Shepherd), who made significant contributions to philosophical debates of their time. I am also interested in the history ethics, and particularly the sentimentalist philosophers of the eighteenth century.