Eszter Kovács

Eszter Kovács is a postdoctoral fellow in philosophy for the ERC-StG project VERITRACE. Eszter obtained her PhD in 2008 in French literature from the University of Szeged and the École Normale Supérieure de Lyon (under joint supervision). Her thesis, entitled La Critique du voyage dans la pensée de Diderot, was published in 2015 in a revised version. In 2018, she started a second PhD in philosophy, devoted to early modern female conceptions of freedom. Her current interests include early modern female philosophers on knowledge, early modern metaphysical and scientific terminology, linguistic equivalence and non-equivalence in early modern translation of science.