Shannon Dea is an Associate Professor of Philosophy and Women’s Studies at University of Waterloo, Canada. Her research runs the gamut from the history of philosophy (especially Early Modern philosophy and classic pragmatism) to the philosophy of sex and gender, and applied issues relating to equity and harm reduction. She has published in such venues as Dialogue, Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, and British Journal for the History of Philosophy. She is the author of Beyond the Binary: Thinking about Sex and Gender (Peterborough: Broadview, 2016).