Publications
Photo by Ruth Boeker.
Mary Astell on Self-Improvement, Friendship, and Religion.
Boeker, Ruth (2025). "Mary Astell on Self-Improvement, Friendship, and Religion." Locke Studies 25: 1–32.
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Catharine Trotter Cockburn and Anne Hepburn Arbuthnot’s contributions to Scottish philosophy.
Boeker, Ruth and Evie Filea (2025). “Catharine Trotter Cockburn and Anne Hepburn Arbuthnot’s contributions to Scottish philosophy.” Intellectual History Review 35 (4): 707–733.
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Presentations
Boeker, Ruth. “Spaces for Learning outside Institutional Settings: Insights from the Cockburn-Arbuthnot Correspondence”
The Figure of the Female Philosopher in Early Modern Europe Conference, organized by ERC CultPhil Project, University of Exeter, 4–5 June 2026.
Boeker, Ruth. “On the Role of Friendship in Eighteenth-century Writings on Education”
Locke Seminar on Vices and Virtues of the Mind, Paris, 14 April 2026.
Boeker, Ruth. “Education and Moral Development in Women’s Philosophical Writings of the Eighteenth Century”
Guest Lecture series on “We Have Always Been Here: Women and Philosophy Pre-1900,” Philosophy Society, Maynooth University, 9 March 2026.
Boeker, Ruth. “Education and Moral Development in Women’s Philosophical Writings of the Eighteenth Century”
Milan Seminar in the History of Modern Moral Philosophy, University of Milan (online), 16 January 2026.