Katherine Hawley

 


My main research interests lie in metaphysics and epistemology; I have also published in the philosophy of science. I am Editorial Chair of the Philosophical Quarterly and Head of the School of Philosophical, Anthropological and Film Studies at St Andrews. 

You can email me at kjh5@st-and.ac.uk (for enquiries related to my research or teaching)

or email Moira Gilruth at pq@st-and.ac.uk (for Philosophical Quarterly enquiries)

or email Katie Allan at philhos@st-and.ac.uk (for Head of School business)

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Books (links to OUP UK website):

  • How Things Persist, Oxford University Press (published in hardback 2001, in paperback 2004). Follow the link for sample chapters.  Selections re-printed in Persistence: Contemporary Readings, edited by Sally Haslanger and Roxanne Marie Kurtz, MIT Press (2006).
  • (co-edited and introduced with Peter Clark) Philosophy of Science Today, Oxford University Press (May 2003).

Articles (links to pdf and to journals):

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Teaching:

In 2009-10 I am teaching PY1005 Mind and Reality and PY3701 Language and Reality (I’m a reality expert).  Enrolled students can find ful information by logging onto WebCT.

(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 December 2009  

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