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Katherine Hawley

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Much of my published work is in metaphysics, and related areas of the philosophy of science. I also work in epistemology (see below) and am developing a project on trust and distrust which also extends into ethics. (Note: I’m aware that some of the links below are muddled, and I’m trying to fix this!)

I am Head of the School of Philosophical, Anthropological and Film Studies at St Andrews. 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

Main publications in Metaphysics/Philosophy of Science

Book:

• 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).

Articles/Chapters:

• Lewis on Persistence, DRAFT for Blackwell Companion to David Lewis, edited by Barry Loewer and Jonathan Schaffer.
• What are Natural Kinds? co-authored with Alexander Bird, for Philosophical Perspectives 2011.
• 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 precis 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.
• 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.

• Critical study of Ted Sider's Four-Dimensionalism, Noûs, 40.2 (2006), pp. 380-393.
• 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.
• '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.
• '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.)

Main publications in Epistemology (and more generally work on trust/distrust)

Book:

• Trust: A Very Short Introduction, Oxford: Oxford University Press (under contract).

Articles/Chapters:

• Partiality and Prejudice, DRAFT.
• Knowledge How and Epistemic Injustice, in Knowing How: Essays on Knowledge, Mind and Action, edited by John Bengson and Marc A. Moffett, forthcoming with Oxford University Press, late 2011.

· 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.

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

I am currently developing material from the 2010 Mangoletsi lectures which I gave at the University of Leeds: Distrust, Ignorance and Injustice.

Other Publications

• (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 (May 2003).

• ‘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.    

• '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.

Reviews:

• 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:

In autumn 2011 I will teach on PY3701 Language and Reality, and in spring 2012 I will teach an Mlitt metaphysics module.

(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 November 2011

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