Prof. Kathleen Lennon

Ferens Professor of Philosophy, BA (Kent), BPhil, DPhil (Oxon)Director of Postgraduate Studies, Research Director

Tel: 01482 465618E-mail: k.lennon@hull.ac.uk

Profile

 Kathleen has two main research areas: philosophy of mind and body, and gender theory. Her work weaves together Anglo-American analytic philosophy with twentieth century Continental philosophy. She has recently written papers on expression, the metaphysics of sex difference , and the imaginary body. Her most recent books are the co-authored Theorizing Gender (Polity Press, 2002) and The World, the Flesh & the Subject (Edinburgh University Press, 2004), the latter co-authored with Paul Gilbert. She is currently writing a book on the Imagination and the Imaginary.

Kathleen was a founder member of, and remains actively involved in, the Hull Centre for Gender Studies and the UK branch of the Society for Women in Philosophy.

Teaching

Kathleen teaches on, and is the coordinator for, the MA Philosophy of Mind and Body programme as well as teaching the following undergraduate modules:

• Bodies and Selves
• Kant
• History of Western Thought 
• Philosophical Texts: Judith Butler
• 20th Century Philosophy 

PUBLICATIONS

BOOKS AUTHORED

Explaining Human Action, London, Duckworth 1990

Philosophy of Mind, co authored with Steve Burwood and Paul Gilbert, London,  Taylor and Francis, 1998

Theorizing Gender,  co authored with Rachel Alsop and Annette FitzSimons. Cambridge, Polity , 2002

The World, the Flesh and the Subject: Continental Themes in Philosophy of Mind and body,  co authored with Paul Gilbert, Edinburgh, Edinburgh University Press  2005

BOOKS EDITED

Reduction, Explanation and Realism, with David Charles, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1992,

Knowing the Difference; Feminist Perspectives in Epistemology, with Margaret Whitford, London , Routledge, 1994,

Embodied Selves with Stella Gonzalez Arnal and Gill Jagger. forthcoming Palgrave 2012

PAPERS IN ACADEMIC JOURNALS

“Anti-Reductionist Materialism”, Inquiry 27, 1984, p 363-80.

“Gender and Knowledge”, Journal of Gender Studies, (1995)

“ Local Epistemologies”  Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society SV.1997

“Naturalism and Normativity “ Philosophical Explorations  July 2000

‘Naturalising and Interpretive turns in Epistemology’ International Journal of Philosophical Studies   Nov 2003

‘Imagination and the Imaginary’  Inquiry  March 2004

'Making life Livable' Radical Philosophy November 2006

‘Re Enchanting the World; The role of Imagination in Perception’ Philosophy  vol 85 no 33 July 2010

‘Expression and Imagination’ Ratio July 2011

PAPERS IN COLLECTIONS

"Introduction” in Charles and Lennon, op cit., 1992, p 1-18

“Reduction, Causality and Normativity” in Charles and Lennon, p 225-238

“Reasons” in Blackwell's Companion to the Philosophy of Mind, 1994

 ‘Feminism and Natural Science” in Blackwell’s Companion to Feminist Philosophy , ed. A.Jagger and I.Young, Blackwells  1997

“Feminist Epistemology “ in  Handbook of Epistemology   ed I.Niiniluoto, M.Sintonen, J. Wolenski. Kluwer 2004

‘Feminism and Philosophy ‘ in  Historical  Encyclopedia of British Philosophy ed A.C.Grayling , A.Pyle and N.Goulder    (Thoemmes Continuum  2006)

‘Feminism Perspectives on the Body   Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy  http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/feminist-body/