Lisa Shapiro

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.^[1][2][3]

Lisa Shapiro
Born	Maryland, USA
Education
Education	Wesleyan University (B.A.) University of Pittsburgh (Ph.D.)
Thesis	The union of soul and body: Descartes' conception of a human being (1997)
Philosophical work
Era	21st-century philosophy
Region	Western philosophy
School	Early modern philosophy
Institutions	Simon Fraser University
Main interests	Cartesian philosophy
Website	http://lisacshapiro.wordpress.com/

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.^[4]

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