New Publication

Congratulations to Ruth Boeker and Evie Filea on the publication of their paper ‘Catharine Trotter Cockburn's and Anne Hepburn Arbuthnot’s contributions to Scottish philosophy’, which has just appeared in Intellectual History Review.

Link to article: (opens in a new window)https://doi.org/10.1080/17496977.2025.2567175
A preprint can be found here: (opens in a new window)https://philpapers.org/rec/BOECTC-3

The aims of this paper are twofold. First, it draws attention to the contributions that Catharine Trotter Cockburn and her niece Anne Hepburn Arbuthnot made to Scottish Enlightenment philosophy and argues on these grounds that they should be acknowledged as Scottish philosophers. Second, the paper highlights how Cockburn and Arbuthnot, who, like other women of their day, were excluded from attending universities created spaces for learning outside institutional settings.