(Ph.D., Princeton University). She is a scholar of 17th- and 18th-century philosophy, with a special interest in skepticism. She is author of Descartes’s Method of Doubt, and she recently completed Hume’s Radical Scepticism, which will be published by Oxford University Press. Over the years, she has served as the dean of arts and humanities, the vice provost for the faculty, and the executive dean of the College of Letters & Science.