Scholarly Contributions per year
Scholarly Contributions per year
Personal profile
Biography
Dr. Margaret Watkins, professor of philosophy, joined Providence College as the dean of the School of Arts & Sciences in July of 2023. Dr. Watkins specializes in early modern ethics and aesthetics, with expertise on the 18th-century Scottish philosopher David Hume. Before coming to PC, she served as the dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at Seattle Pacific University from 2021-2023 and dean of the School of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences at St. Vincent College from 2018-2021. Dr. Watkins is president of the Hume Society and was the 2018 David Hume Fellow at the Institute for the Advanced Studies in the Humanities at the University of Edinburgh.
Education
Philosophy, M.A., College of William and Mary
Philosophy, B.A., College of William and Mary
Philosophy, Ph.D., The Autonomous Hume: On the Search for the Kantian Moral Motive in Hume’s Moral Philosophy, University of Notre
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Review of Tim Milnes, The Testimony of Sense
Watkins, M. A., 2024, In: Hume Studies 40 (1). p. 175-180Research output: Contribution to journal › Review article
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Race and gender in early modern philosophy: How Amo and Astell wrote behind the veil
Watkins, M. A., Jun 19 2023, In: The Routledge Handbook of Women and Early Modern European Philosophy. p. 311-323 13 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Reply to my Critics
Watkins, M. A., 2023, In: The Philosophical Progress of Hume’s Essays. p. 163-72Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Self-knowledge and hume's phenomenology of the passions
Watkins, M. A., Oct 28 2021, In: Philosophy. 96, 4, p. 577-602 26 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review