Margaret Atherton, Distinguished Professor

Office: Curtin Hall 602/629
Phone: (414) 229-4736/5904
Fax: (414) 229-5022
e-mail: atherton@uwm.edu

Degree:
Ph.D., Brandeis University

Research Interests:
Research focuses on English philosophers of the early modern period, historical issues in the philosophy of psychology, and the work of women philosophers in the history of philosophy

Teaching Interests:
Teaches courses in the history of modern philosophy.

Publications:
Looking Into Pictures, co-editor with Heiko Hecht and Robert Schwartz, MIT Press (2003).

The Empiricists, (ed.), Rowman and Littlefield (1998).

Women Philosophers of the Early Modern Period, (ed.), Hackett Publishing (1994).

Berkeley's Revolution in Vision, Cornell University Press (1990).

"'Green is like Bread': The Nature of Descartes's Account of Color Perception" in Perception and Reality, Ralph Schumacher (ed.) Mentis, Aderborn (2004).

"Why Berkeley can Maintain that Snow is White" in Philosophy and Phenomenological Research (2003).

"Apprendre à voir: les enseignements de la défense des théories de la vision" in Berkeley: Langage de la perception et art de voir, Dominique Berlioz (ed.), Presses Universitaires de la France (2003).

"Women Philosophers in Early Modern England" in The Blackwell Companion to Early Modern Philosophy, Steven Nadler (ed.), Blackwell (2002).