Christia Mercer

Christia Mercer is the Gustave M. Berne Professor of Philosophy at Columbia University, general editor of Oxford Philosophical Concepts, co-editor of Oxford New Histories of Philosophy, and director of Just Ideas, an educational program in a maximum security prison in Brooklyn, New York.

Christia Mercer will polish a manuscript on the understudied philosopher, Anne Conway (1631-1679) whose only work, Principles of the Most Ancient and Modern Philosophies, was published posthumously in 1690. The main goal of Anne Conway: The Philosophy of Radical Equality, is to reveal that Conway’s thought is metaphysically, theologically, and politically more radical than previously imagined.