This week's most underrated philosopher, Helen Hattab, teaches at at The University of Houston: http://www.houstoncircle.org/cvs/hattab_cv.html
Hattab writes on the history of philosophy and its intersection with science. She has just published a careful, contextual study of Descartes (Descartes on Forms and Mechanisms. (Cambridge, 2009)), in which she puts Descartes in conversation with the Scholastics. It is easy to underestimate how hard it is to say something fresh and possibly true about Descartes after so many centuries of intense scrutinity. For those that wish to familarize themselves with Hattab's philosophic subtlety, her already-classic paper, "The Problem of Secondary Causation in Descartes: A Response to Des Chene." Perspectives on Science 8:2, (2000): 93-118, is a good place to start.
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