Christia Mercer is an American philosopher and the Gustave M. Berne Professor in the Department of Philosophy at Columbia University.
In 2012, Mercer was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship[7][8] and in 2018-19 was chosen as the Mildred Londa Weisman Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study.
She has also written articles on plagiarism,[13] Literature Humanities,[14] and queer identity[15] for the Columbia Daily Spectator undergraduate newspaper.
[22] These include Animals, Dignity, Efficient Causation, Embodiment, Eternity, Evil, The Faculties, Memory, Moral Motivation, Persons, Pleasure, Self-Knowledge, and Sympathy.
Mercer has written about the importance of inclusive history of philosophy in op-eds for the New York Times and the Washington Post.
[28] Motivated by her friend, Eileen O'Neill, she has become increasingly devoted to discovering and articulating the ideas of early modern and late medieval women.
[29] Her paper, "Descartes' Debt to Teresa of Ávila, Or Why We Should Work on Women in the History of Philosophy," in Phil Studies, August, 2016, exposes that the famous evil deceiver argument in the Meditations on First Philosophy is indebted to Teresa of Ávila and asks how this crucial fact has been overlooked for centuries.
[32] At Taconic Correctional Facility, she taught female prisoners texts including the Aeschylus's Oresteia, Euripides's Medea, Aristophanes's Lysistrata, and William Shakespeare's Twelfth Night.
Mercer's response argued that "Mr. Burns's demand for corrections exemplifies the tortured logic of the corporation he represents.