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Publications


Journal Articles

Catharine Macaulay on Cultivating our Sympathetic Potential (forthcoming), Journal of Modern Philosophy

The Developmental Potential of the Human Mind: Hume on Children and the Formation of Fiction (2023), British Journal for the History Philosophy

Book Chapters
“Common Sense & Skepticism: Reid and Buffier” in Claude Buffier: Metaphysics, Common Sense, and Sensibility, edited by Dario Perinetti and Anik Waldow, Oxford University Press, New York, USA, 2025 (Forthcoming) 


Book Reviews
Frances Power Cobbe: Essential Writings of a Nineteenth-Century Feminist Philosopher ed. Alison Stone (2022), British Journal for the History of Philosophy
Works in Progress


I have several papers at various stages of development. Many of these papers, I have presented or will be presenting at upcoming conferences. Some of these papers, I would be happy to share via email. 


Works in development

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— “Catharine Macaulay, Himpathy & “The Vindication of the Female Nature,”” (commissioned for a volume on Feminist Continuities in the History of Philosophy, edited by Marguerite Deslauriers & Martina Reuter) 

 

“Hume, Macaulay & Cooper: Education & Freedom,” (commissioned for a volume on Hume and Comparative Philosophy, edited by Rico Vitz)


“Macaulay & Wollstonecraft: An Epistemology of Political Resistance,” co-authored with Allauren Forbes. 

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— "Catharine Macaulay & Frances Power Cobbe on our Obligations to Non-Human Animals"

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— "Hume, Children & Learning Language"



Works Under Contract 

“The Classist Bent to Passionate Experience in Hume & Macaulay,” The Bloomsbury Companion to Hume, Revised edition, edited by Alan Bailey and Dan O’Brien.
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Editor, with Allauren Forbes, Women & Epistemic Emotions in Early Modern Philosophy, Special Issue for the Journal of Modern Philosophy.
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Publications & Works In Progress

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Elena Gordon

©2023 by Elena Gordon. 

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