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Assistant Professor in Philosophy, Northeastern University

I work in two areas of philosophy's history: Early Modern Philosophy and Early Analytic Philosophy.

My Early Modern work focuses on theories of mental representation in figures like Berkeley, Cavendish, and Amo. My Early Analytic work focuses a generation of women at the dawn of the analytic movement in Britain - including Susan Stebbing, Dorothy Emmet, and Margaret Macdonald.

Experience

  • 2020–present
    Teaching Fellow in Early Modern Philosophy, Durham University
  • 2018–2020
    Lecturer in Philosophy, Trinity College Dublin
  • 2015–2020
    PhD in Philosophy, Trinity College Dublin
  • 2019–2020
    Visiting Teaching Fellow in Philosophy, University College Dublin

Education

  • 2020 
    Trinity College Dublin, PhD
  • 2014 
    University of Edinburgh, Master's

Publications

  • 2021
    On Susan Stebbing and the Role of Public Philosophy, Aeon
  • 2020
    Why Can An Idea Be Like Nothing But Another Idea? A Conceptual Interpretation of Berkeley's Likeness Principle, Journal of the American Philosophical Association
  • 2020
    The Irish Context of Berkeley's Resemblance Thesis, Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplements
  • 2019
    Reid and Berkeley on Scepticism, Representationalism, and Ideas, Journal of Scottish Philosophy

Professional Memberships

  • British Society for the History of Philosophy
  • American Philosophical Association
  • New Voices on Women in the History of Philosophy
  • Extending New Narratives in the History of Philosophy