Dr Elisabeth Thorson

Elisabeth is a philosopher at Durham University. Her main field of research is within early modern philosophy, in particular John Locke and the relationship between theology and politics in 17th century Europe.

Elisabeth also works on the revival of classical thought such as Platonism, Epicureanism, and Natural Law Theory in the 17th century.

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Elisabeth completed her doctoral thesis From Empiricism to Platonism: Locke's Concept of Reason in the Department of Philosophy, the University of York in 2018. 

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Elisabeth is also associated with the University of York, where she lectured 2018-2020