Filipa Melo Lopes
Lecturer
- Philosophy
- School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences
Contact details
- Tel: 0131 650 3958
- Email: Filipa.MeloLopes@ed.ac.uk
Address
- Street
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Room 13.10
- City
- 40 George Square, Edinburgh
- Post code
- EH8 9JX
Availability
Office hours semester 2:
Thursday 2 pm - 3 pm
Friday 11 am - 12 pm via MS Teams
Background
Filipa joined the department in 2019, after receiving her Ph.D. from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
Undergraduate teaching
2023/2024
- Advanced Topics in Feminist Philosophy: Gender and Beauty (Y4)/ (PG) - semester 2
Open to PhD supervision enquiries?
No
Current PhD students supervised
Secondary Supervisor:
- Rory Wilson - PhD
- Willa Saadat - PhD
- Yinmei Wu, PhD Philosophy
- Jennifer Walker, PhD Philosophy
Primary supervisor:
- Ziruo Xie, MSc by Research
Past PhD students supervised
Secondary Supervisor:
Lilith W. Lee - PhD 2021 (Assistant Professor, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
Research summary
My areas of research are feminist philosophy, social theory, sexual ethics, and the work of Simone de Beauvoir.
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What do incels want?: Explaining incel violence using Beauvoirian Otherness
In:
Hypatia, pp. 1-23
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/hyp.2023.3
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (E-pub ahead of print) -
'Half Victim, half accomplice': Cat Person and Narcissism
In:
Ergo, vol. 7, pp. 701-729
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3998/ergo.1123
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
Perpetuating the patriarchy: Misogyny and (post-)feminist backlash
In:
Philosophical Studies, vol. 176, pp. 2517–2538
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11098-018-1138-z
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published)