Susan James FBA (born 1951) is a British professor of philosophy at Birkbeck College London.
[1][2][3] Susan James received her BA, MA and Ph.D. degrees in Philosophy from New Hall (now Murray Edwards College), University of Cambridge.
[5] She has held a number of Research Fellowships: from the British Academy and Leverhulme Foundation in 1994-5; at the Humanities Research Centre and Research School of Social Science, Australian National University (1994); at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (1998); at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin (2003–04); at the Centre for Human Values, Princeton University (2013–14); and at the Berkeley UC School of Law (2019).
Much of her research considers how early modern metaphysics, epistemology, psychology, political philosophy and ethics were thought to contribute to the overall project of living well.
[10] Throughout her work, Susan James tries to bring the history of philosophy into conversation with its contemporary counterpart.