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Katherine Hawley

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I am Professor of Philosophy at the University of St Andrews, and have two main areas of research (on one carving, at least):

· metaphysics, and related topics in philosophy of science

· epistemology, particularly (i) knowledge how and (ii) trust, which sometimes takes me further afield, into ethics and beyond.

I am also Head of the School of Philosophical, Anthropological and Film Studies. For Head of School business please email philhos@st-and.ac.uk; for enquiries connected to my teaching or research, please email kjh5@st-and.ac.uk

Here is some information about my publications, teaching, and life.

Authored Books:

• Trust: A Very Short Introduction, Oxford: Oxford University Press (2012).
• How Things Persist, Oxford University Press (published in hardback 2001, in paperback 2004). Selections re-printed in Persistence: Contemporary Readings, edited by Sally Haslanger and Roxanne Marie Kurtz, MIT Press (2006).

Co-edited Books:

• (co-edited with Fiona Macpherson) The Admissible Contents of Experience, Oxford: Blackwell (2011). This collection reprints papers originally published in a special issue of the Philosophical Quarterly; the book includes a new introduction sole-authored by Fiona Macpherson.
• (co-edited and introduced with Peter Clark) Philosophy of Science Today, Oxford University Press (2003).

Research Articles/Chapters:

• Persistence and Time for the Cambridge Companion to Life and Death, edited by Steven Luper.
• Ontological Innocence updated draft for a volume on Composition as Identity, edited by Donald Baxter and Aaron Cotnoir, forthcoming with OUP.
• Lewis on Persistence, forthcoming for Blackwell Companion to David Lewis, edited by Barry Loewer and Jonathan Schaffer.
• Cut the Pie Any Way You Like? Cotnoir on General Identity, forthcoming in Oxford Studies in Metaphysics, edited by Karen Bennett and Dean Zimmerman.
• Trust, Distrust and Commitment, Noûs (currently published ‘Early View’, forthcoming in print). Paper available open access on the journal website here.
• Partiality and Prejudice in Trusting, Synthese (currently published ‘Online First’, forthcoming in print). Journal here
• What are Natural Kinds? co-authored with Alexander Bird, Philosophical Perspectives 25.1 (2011), 205-221. Journal here.
• Knowledge How and Epistemic Injustice, in Knowing How: Essays on Knowledge, Mind and Action, edited by John Bengson and Marc A. Moffett, New York: Oxford University Press (2011): pp. 283-299.

· Testimony and Knowing How, in Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science Part A, 41.4 December 2010 (special memorial issue for Peter Lipton, edited by Anjan Chakravartty): 397-404. Journal here.

• Mereology, Modality and Magic Australasian Journal of Philosophy 88.1 (March 2010), 117-133. Journal here.
• Identity and Indiscernibility, Mind 118(1) (January 2009),101-119. Journal here.
• Persistence and Determination, Philosophy 83 supplement 62 (2008), 197-212 (special issue on Being: Developments in Contemporary Metaphysics). Journal here.
• ‘Neo-Fregeanism and Quantifier Variance’, Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society Supplementary Volume LXXI (2007), 233-49. Journal here
• Science as a Guide to Metaphysics?, Synthese, 149 (2006), pp. 451-470. Journal here.
• Principles of Composition and Criteria of Identity’, Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 84.4 (2006), 481-93. Journal here.
• ‘Weak Discernibility’, Analysis, 66 (2006), 300-303. Journal here.
• 'Fission, Fusion and Intrinsic Facts', Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 71.3 (2005), 602-621. Journal here.
• 'Borderline Simple or Extremely Simple', Monist, 87.3 (2004), pp. 385-404. Journal here.

· 'Success and Knowledge How', American Philosphical Quarterly, 40.1 (2003), 19-31. .

• 'Vagueness and Existence', Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, CII.2 (2002), pp 125-140. Journal here.
• 'Persistence and Non-Supervenient Relations', Mind, 108, (1999), pp 53-67. Journal here. Re-printed in Persistence, edited by Haslanger and Kurtz.
• 'Merricks on whether Being Conscious is Intrinsic', Mind, 107, (1998), pp. 841-3. Journal here.
• 'Indeterminism and Indeterminacy', Analysis , vol. 58, no. 2 (1998) pp. 101-106. Journal here.
• 'Why Temporary Properties are not Relations between Physical Objects and Times', Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society , vol. XCVIII, no. 2 (1998), pp. 211-16. Journal here.

Mostly-Expository Pieces:

• ‘Metaphysics and Relativity’, Routledge Companion to Metaphysics, edited by Robin Le Poidevin, Peter Simons, Ross Cameron and Andrew McGonigal, Routledge (2009): pp. 507-516.
• ‘Fusion’ and ‘Temporal Parts’, draft entries for the Handbook of Mereology, edited by Hans Burkhardt, Johanna Seibt and Guido Imaguire: Philosophia Verlag.
• 'Temporal Parts', Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (link to encyclopedia).
• 'Types of Personal Identity', Cogito, vol.11, no.2 (1997), pp. 117-122.    

• 'Using Independent Study Groups with Philosophy Students' Journal of the Philosophy and Religious Studies Learning and Teaching Support Network vol. 2.1 (2002), pp. 90-109.

Longer Reviews:

• Critical notice of Knowledge on Trust by Paul Faulkner, published in Abstracta Special Issue VI (2012), 84-91. Journal here, includes contributions by Guy Longworth, Arnon Keren, Edward S. Hinchman, and Peter J. Graham, with précis and replies by Paul Faulkner.
• Critical study of Truth and Ontology by Trenton Merricks, for a symposium in Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 83.1 (July 2011), 196-202. Journal here, includes contributions by Karen Bennett and Kris McDaniel, with précis and replies by Trenton Merricks..
• Critical notice of Every Thing Must Go by Ladyman, Ross et al, part of a symposium published in MetaScience, 19.2 (July 2010). 174-9. Journal here, includes contributions by Kyle Stanford and Paul Humphreys, with responses from Ladyman and Ross.
• Critical study of Four-Dimensionalism by Ted Sider, Noûs 40.2 (2006) pp. 380-93. Journal here.
• 'Thomas S. Kuhn's Mysterious Worlds', Studies in History and Philosophy of Science , vol. 27, no. 2 (1996), pp. 291-300.   (Essay review of Reconstructing Scientific Revolutions by Paul Hoyningen-Huene, and of World Changes, edited by Paul Horwich.)

Shorter Reviews:

• Knowledge on Trust, by Paul Faulkner, reviewed in Philosophical Quarterly, vol. 63 (January 2013), 170-71.
• The Structure of Objects, by Kathrin Koslicki, reviewed in International Studies in the Philosophy of Science, vol.24.3 (September 2010), 336-9.
• Identity in Physics, by Steven French and Décio Krause, reviewed in International Studies in the Philosophy of Science.
• Physicalism by Andrew Melnyk, reviewed in MetaScience, vol. 14.2 (2005), 277-281.
• Physical Causation by Phil Dowe, reviewed in MetaScience.
• The Possibility of Metaphysics by E.J. Lowe, reviewed in The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, vol. 50, no.3 (1999), pp. 478-482.
• Beauty and Revolution in Science by James McAllister, reviewed in The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, vol.48, no.2 (1997), pp. 297-99.
• Scientific Nihilism by Daniel Athearn, reviewed in International Studies in the Philosophy of Science, vol.9, no.2 (1995), pp.183-6.

Teaching:

For 2012-13: PY4642 Trust, Knowledge and Society (co-teaching with Jessica Brown), and PY5325 Metaphysics (with Patrick Greenough).

In spring 2012 I taught PY5325 Contemporary Issues in Metaphysics: here is the syllabus.

I welcome enquiries from potential PhD students: please email me to discuss your project.

(Auto)Biography:

I grew up in Stoke-on-Trent, studied Physics and Philosophy at Balliol College, Oxford, spent a few inarticulate months living in France, then moved to Cambridge, where I took an M.Phil. then a Ph.D. in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science (working with Peter Lipton). I was Henry Sidgwick Research Fellow of Newnham College, Cambridge, before taking up a lectureship at St Andrews in 1999. I have two children, Fiona and Daniel, who were born in 2004.

Updated March 2013.

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