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.

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.

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