Pauline Phemister
Professor

- Philosophy
- School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences
Contact details
- Tel: 0131 651 3747
- Email: P.Phemister@ed.ac.uk
Address
- Street
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Room 7.08
- City
- 40 George Square, Edinburgh
- Post code
- EH8 9JX
Availability
Consultation Hours: Fridays 3.15pm-4.15pm or by appointment
Background
Pauline Phemister M.A. Ph.D. (Edinburgh) returned to the department in 2005, prior to which she held a British Academy Post-doctoral Fellowship at the University of Oxford and taught at the Universities of Nebraska-Lincoln and Liverpool. She is author of Leibniz and the Natural World (2005), The Rationalists: Descartes, Spinoza, and Leibniz (2006) and Leibniz and the Environment (2016) She is a co-investigator on the AHRC research project, Caring for the Future through Ancestral Time, and local co-ordinator of the CHCI Humanities for the Environment project, Uncertain Human Future.
Responsibilities & affiliations
- Research Advisor, Philosophy
- Course Organiser, Greats
- Associate Editor, British Journal for the History of Philosophy
- Editorial Board memberships, Studia Leibnitiana and Philosophical Quarterly
Undergraduate teaching
History of Modern Philosophy/Environmental Philosophy.
Current courses taught:
Mind and Body in Early Modern Philosophy
Reason and Experience: Seventeenth Century Philosophy
Greats, lectures on Descartes
Pauline Phemister is willing to supervise postgraduate dissertations on topics relating to early modern philosophy and ecological philosophy.
student consultation hours
Fridays 11.30-12.30, or by appointment (semester 1); Fridays 11.10-12.00, or by appointment (semester 2)
Current PhD students supervised
- Owen Kelly (Lead)
- Iliana Litra (Lead)
- Yuanyuan Liu (Lead)
- Antonio Salgado Borge (Lead)
- Shannon Tseng (Lead)
Research summary
Early modern philosophy, especially Rationalists and Locke, Philosophy of Nature. Pauline Phemister is a member of the History of Philosophy research area.
Project activity
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Leibniz Freedom of Will and Rationality
Research output: › Chapter (peer-reviewed) (Accepted/In press) -
Malebranche, Leibniz et la question des animaux
DOI: https://doi.org/10.4000/books.enseditions.39867
Research output: › Chapter (Published) -
Monadic Souls and the West Lothian Bings
Research output: › Chapter (Accepted/In press) -
'Theoria cum praxi' as model for 21st century environmental practice
Research output: › Chapter (Published) -
Theoria cum Praxi: Leibniz's Legacy into the Future
DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315103570
Research output: › Chapter (Published) -
Leibniz-Stahl Controversy
In:
British Journal for the History of Philosophy, vol. 26, pp. 1238-1241
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/09608788.2018.1477735
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Book/Film/Article review (Published) -
Monadologies
(220 pages)
Research output: › Book (Published) -
Leibniz's monadological positive aesthetics
Research output: › Chapter (peer-reviewed) (Published) -
Substance and force or why it matters what we think
In:
British Journal for the History of Philosophy, vol. 25, pp. 526-546
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/09608788.2017.1325727
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
Leibniz's mirrors: Reflecting the past
Research output: Contribution to Conference › Conference contribution (Published)