Woman Philosophers of Eighteenth-Century England

Jacqueline Broad is Associate Professor in the Philosophy Department at Monash University. Her research is mainly on the history of philosophy, with a particular focus on women philosophers of the early modern period (c. 1650-1750). Her published books include: Women Philosophers of the Seventeenth Century (CUP, 2002); A History of Women's Political Thought in Europe, 1400-1800 (with Karen Green, CUP, 2009); and The Philosophy of Mary Astell (OUP, 2015).

Her most recent work is the edited volume of Women Philosophers of Eighteenth-Century England: Selected Correspondence (OUP, 2020), which presents letters from three influential thinkers of the eighteenth century: Mary Astell, Elizabeth Thomas, and Catharine Trotter Cockburn. Listen to an interview with Jacqueline Broad about this volume here.