Dr. Margaret Watkins

Assistant Professor of Philosophy

Placid Hall, Room 311
724-805-2566 (on campus ext. 2566)
margaret.watkins@email.stvincent.edu 

Research Interests

History of Modern Philosophy, especially Hume
Normative Ethics and the Virtues
Philosophy and Literature

Education

Ph.D., University of Notre Dame, 2002
M.A., University of Notre Dame, 2000
B.A., College of William and Mary, 1996

Courses Taught

1st Philosophy
Ethics
Logic
Modern Philosophy
Theories of Knowledge
Contemporary Philosophy

Margaret Watkins came to Saint Vincent in the fall of 2009, after earning the Ph.D. in philosophy at Notre Dame and teaching for eight years at a university in Texas. Her research focuses on ethics and early modern philosophy, with an emphasis on the moral philosophy of the eighteenth-century philosopher, David Hume. She has published articles on Hume's ethics and aesthetics, as well as several articles on the relationship between literature and philosophy, exploring the resources of Jane Austen's novels for questions in ethics and virtue theory. She is currently working on a book on Hume's Essays Moral, Political, and Literary.