Emily Thomas is an assistant professor in philosophy at Durham University, whose work focuses

primarily on the history of metaphysics and the metaphysics of space and time. Thomas's work

in these areas has had a great impact, most notably through her 2018 books,

Absolute Time, Rifts in early modern British metaphysics and early modern women on metaphysics.

In this episode, we will be discussing Emily Thomas's forthcoming work on the idealism and pantheism of May Sinclair. Born in 1863, May Sinclair was a prolific

novelist as well as a deeply influential poet, translator, critic and philosopher. It is this

last field philosophy which perhaps she is least well known for her work. In fact, there is no scholarship on May Sinclair's philosophy,

and Emily's recent work is the first to engage with it.

Amongst her many great novels, short stories and poems,

May Sinclair published her philosophical treaties

in defence of idealism in 1917 and the new idealism in 1922, which both form the focus of today's discussion.

Sinclair's unusual take on questions concerning space and time, God and classic philosophical problems such as Zeno's paradox,

provide us with a refreshing and exciting

approach to our understanding of the universe. Combined with a great passion, wit and her

breathtaking writing style, it is no stretch to say that Mace and Clair is one of the

20th century's most underrated philosophers. Remember this episode is the second of our four-part

series on pantheism. As part of this series, we interviewed Sam Coleman in last episode, and we'll

also be interviewing Claire Carlisle and Andre Bucharest later in the year. These episodes are produced

in partnership with the Pantheism and Pan-Entheism Project, which is led by

Andre Booker F and Eugen Nagasawa and funded by the John Templeton Foundation.

A huge thank you to the Pantheism and Pan-Entheism Project for their support.

As always, thank you to Cullen St. Gabriel's and all of our patrons for supporting the show,

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