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)
Jump (a little) to Articles
or Teaching or Biography
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):
- ‘Knowledge
How and Epistemic Injustice’ DRAFT.
- Testimony
and Knowing How, forthcoming in Studies
in the History and Philosophy of Science (special memorial issue for
Peter Lipton, edited by Anjan Chakravartty).
- Identity
and Indiscernibility, Mind
118(1) (January 2009),101-119. Journal
here.
- Mereology,
Modality and Magic forthcoming in the Australasian Journal of Philosophy (2010). 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
- ‘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.
- 'Science as a Guide to Metaphysics?' , Synthese, 149 (2006), pp. 451-470.
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 articles:
- ‘Metaphysics
and Relativity’, forthcoming in the Routledge Companion to Metaphysics, edited by Robin Le
Poidevin, Peter Simons, Ross Cameron and Andrew McGonigal.
- ‘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.
Article on teaching:
Critical Studies:
- Critical
notice of Every Thing Must Go by
Ladyman, Ross et al, for a symposium in MetaScience (draft).
- Critical study of Ted Sider's Four-Dimensionalism, Noûs, 40.2 (2006), pp. 380-393.
- '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.)
Reviews:
- 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:
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.
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