Margaret Anne Cameron is a Canadian philosopher whose research interests include metaphysics and the history of philosophy, including the influence of Aristotelian logic in medieval scholarship, the work of 12th-century scholar Peter Abelard, and the philosophical study of the true crime genre. She is a professor of philosophy and head of the School of Historical and Philosophical Studies at the University of Melbourne in Australia.
Cameron is originally from Canada, and was educated in the Toronto public school system. She was a student of gender studies, English literature, and philosophy at the University of Toronto. After a research fellowship at the University of Cambridge in England and an assistant professorship at Hunter College in New York City, she returned to Canada in 2008 to take up a Tier 2 Canada Research Chair in the Aristotelian tradition at the University of Victoria. The chair was renewed in 2014; at the University of Victoria, she also served as associate dean for research. In 2017 she became founding co-editor-in-chief of Metaphysics, the journal of the Canadian Metaphysics Collaborative.
In 2019, she moved to the University of Melbourne with her partner, Klaus Jahn, who held a teaching position at the University of Victoria. She became the first woman to hold a professorship in philosophy at the University of Melbourne.
Cameron's books include: