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Biography

Alexandra Cook is Honorary Professor of Philosophy at the University of Hong Kong and Fellow of the Linnean Society of London. She was also a Fellow of the Institute of Advanced Study, Nantes (2018 – 2019) and the Historisches Kolleg, Munich (2014). Her books include Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Botany, the Salutary Science (Oxford, 2012), awarded the John Thackray Medal of the Society for the History of Natural History (London), and a translation of Rousseau’s botanical writings in Collected Writings of Rousseau, vol. 8 (Dartmouth, 2000). Professor Cook’s current project is Bioprospecting Asia: Laurent Garcin and the Circulation of Scientific Knowledge.