While I am passionate about feminist philosophy as a whole, I am especially excited about the historically-overlooked women philosophers of the early modern period.

Publications

Works in progress

• Mary Astell on Bad Custom and Epistemic Injustice (2019), Hypatia Vol. 34 (4).
• Friendship as a Means to Freedom (forthcoming), The Routledge Handbook on Women and Early Modern Philosophy.
• Mary Astell as Critic of the Social Contract (forthcoming), Reconsidering Political Thinkers, Oxford University Press.

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• The Problem of Prejudice in Testimony: Marie de Gournay and Anton Wilhelm Amo
• Madeleine de Scudéry on Conversation and its Feminist Ends
• The Importance of Being Angry: Anger, credibility, and epistemic injustice

Publications for a broader audience

• “A woman philosopher calls out misogyny in the 17th century,” in Aeon.
  https://aeon.co/ideas/a-woman-philosopher-calls-out-misogyny-in-the-17th-century
• “Mary Astell and Theories of Friendship,” Project Vox’s blog Revealing Voices https://projectvox.org/revealing-voices/revealing-voices-allauren-forbes/
• “Memory Editing in Veterans with PTSD,” Center for Ethics and the Rule of Law (Penn Law)’s blog The Rule of Law Post (forthcoming)
• “The United States Has Separated Itself from the Moral High Ground,” with Jon Blomberg, Center for Ethics and the Rule of Law (Penn Law)’s blog The Rule of Law Post (forthcoming) 
• “Divide and Conquer: Decreasing the Risk of Torture Lite,” with Jon Blomberg, Center for Ethics and the Rule of Law (Penn Law) policy paper (forthcoming)
  
  

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Research networks on early modern philosophers

Although research on early modern women philosophers is still fairly recent - only a few decades! - there is an extensive and productive research community. Below are links to some of the larger hubs of researchers working on these exciting and historically overlooked philosophers.

• New Narratives in the History of Philosophy - link
• The Center for New Narratives in Philosophy - link
• Project Vox - link
• Feminist History of Philosophy - link
• History of Women Philosophers and Scientists - link

And, in shameless self-promotion, some friends and fellow Astell researchers and I started the Friends of Mary Astell, an APA-affiliated group focused on Astell scholarship. You can check out our upcoming events here.