Profile
Kathleen Lennon has two main research areas: philosophy of
embodiment, and philosophy of mind, with recent work focussing on
the imagination. . Her work weaves together Anglo-American analytic
philosophy with twentieth century Continental philosophy,
predominantly phenomenology. She has a special interest in
Kant and Merleau Ponty. 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 monograph on
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.
Selected Publications
Podcast
Emotion, Imagination and Education
http://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/philosophy-reunion-seminar-emotion-imagination-and-education-audio
Papers Available
Books Authored
- 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 (
on line symposium http://lgxserver.uniba.it/mind/swifpmr.htm
- Theorizing Gender, co authored with Rachel Alsop
and Annette FitzSimons. Cambridge, Polity , 2002
- Philosophy of Mind, co authored with Steve Burwood and
Paul Gilbert, London, Taylor and Francis, 1998
- Explaining Human Action, London, Duckworth 1990
Books Edited
- Embodied Selves with Stella Gonzalez Arnal and
Gill Jagger. Palgrave 2012
- Knowing the Difference; Feminist Perspectives in
Epistemology, with Margaret Whitford, London , Routledge,
1994,
- Reduction, Explanation and Realism, with David
Charles, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1992,
Papers in Academic Journals
- ‘Expression and Imagination’ Ratio July
2011
- ‘Re Enchanting the World; The role of Imagination in
Perception’ Philosophy vol 85 no 33 July
2010
- 'Making life Livable' Radical
Philosophy November 2006
- 'Imagination and the
Imaginary’ Inquiry March 2004
- ‘Naturalising and Interpretive turns in
Epistemology’ International Journal of Philosophical
Studies Nov 2003
- “Naturalism and Normativity “ Philosophical
Explorations July 2000
- “ Local Epistemologies” Proceedings of the
Aristotelian Society SV.1997
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1467-8349.00018/abstract
- “Gender and Knowledge”, Journal of Gender
Studies, (1995)
- ‘Anti-Reductionist Materialism’, Inquiry 27,
1984, p 363-80.
Papers in Collections
- ‘Biology and the Metaphysics of Sex Difference’in Embodied
Selves ed Gonzalez-Arnal, Jagger and Lennon
- ‘Feminism Perspectives on the
Body Stanford Encyclopedia of
Philosophy http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/feminist-body/
- ‘Feminism and Philosophy ‘ in Historical
Encyclopedia of British Philosophy ed A.C.Grayling ,
A.Pyle and N.Goulder (Thoemmes Continuum
2006)
- “Feminist Epistemology “ in Handbook of
Epistemology ed I.Niiniluoto, M.Sintonen, J.
Wolenski. Kluwer 2004
- ‘Feminism and Natural Science”
in Blackwell’s Companion to Feminist
Philosophy , ed. A.Jagger and I.Young, Blackwells
1997
- “Reasons” in Blackwell's Companion to the Philosophy
of Mind, 1994
- “Reduction, Causality and Normativity” in Charles and Lennon, p
225-238
- "Introduction” in Charles and Lennon, op cit., 1992, p
1-18
Inaugural lecture
Re-enchanting
the World; the Role of Imagination in Perception.