Lisa Shapiro
{{short description|American philosopher}}
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|era = 21st-century philosophy
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|name = Lisa Shapiro
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|birth_place = Maryland, USA
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|school_tradition = Early modern philosophy
| institutions = Simon Fraser University
|main_interests = Cartesian philosophy
| thesis_title = The union of soul and body: Descartes' conception of a human being
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| thesis_year = 1997
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| education = Wesleyan University (B.A.)
University of Pittsburgh (Ph.D.)
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|influences = Descartes, Spinoza, David Hume, Étienne Bonnot de Condillac, Malebranche
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|website = http://lisacshapiro.wordpress.com/
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Lisa C. Shapiro (born 1967) is an American and Canadian philosopher, Professor and the Dean of Faculty of Arts at McGill University. She is known for her expertise on early modern philosophy.{{cite journal |title=Emotion and Cognitive Life in Medieval and Early Modern Philosophy |journal=Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews |url=https://ndpr.nd.edu/news/emotion-and-cognitive-life-in-medieval-and-early-modern-philosophy/ |accessdate=11 January 2019}}{{cite journal |title=Emotion and Cognitive Life in Medieval and Early Modern Philosophy ed. by Martin Pickavé, Lisa Shapiro (review) |journal=Journal of the History of Philosophy |date=January 2015 |volume=53 |issue=1 |url=https://muse.jhu.edu/article/566933/pdf |accessdate=11 January 2019}}{{cite journal |title=The Correspondence between Princess Elisabeth of Bohemia and Rene Descartes |journal=Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews |url=https://ndpr.nd.edu/news/the-correspondence-between-princess-elisabeth-of-bohemia-and-rene-descartes/ |accessdate=11 January 2019}}
Shapiro is the first winner of the German Elisabeth of Bohemia Prize which celebrates the history of women in philosophy. It is awarded to internationally recognized philosophers for outstanding services to research on women in the history of philosophy.{{Cite web |title=Elisabeth of Bohemia Prize |url=https://historyofwomenphilosophers.org/elisabeth-of-bohemia-prize/ |access-date=2022-12-11 |website=historyofwomenphilosophers.org}}
Books
- Pleasure: A History (ed.), Oxford University Press, 2018
- Emotion and Cognitive Life in Medieval and Early Modern Philosophy, edited with Martin Pickavé, Oxford University Press, 2012
- The correspondence between Elisabeth, Princess of Bohemia and Descartes, University of Chicago Press, 2007
References
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External links
- [http://lisacshapiro.wordpress.com/ Personal Website]
- [https://www.mcgill.ca/arts/about/about-lisa-shapiro Lisa Shapiro at McGill]
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Category:21st-century American philosophers
Category:American philosophy academics
Category:American women philosophers
Category:Canadian women philosophers
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Category:University of Pittsburgh alumni
Category:Wesleyan University alumni
Category:21st-century American women
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