Okruhlik, Kathleen - Philosophy

Personal Information
First Name: 
Kathleen
Last Name: 
Okruhlik
Department / Program: 
Philosophy
University Affiliation: 
University of Western Ontario
Phone: 
5196612111
Extension: 
85751
Email Address: 
Area of Research
Discipline: 
Philosophy
Subject: 
Science
Geographical Region: 
Germany
Global
Time Period: 
17th Century
18th-20th Century
Specific Area of Research: 
History and philosophy of science, seventeenth-century philosophy, Kant, philosophical issues in feminism, science and values, feminist analysis of science
Academics
PHD Program: 
History and Philosophy of Science
PHD University: 
University of Pittsburgh
PHD Date: 
1984
Major Publications: 
The Natural Philosophy of Leibniz, (edited with J. Brown), Reidel, 1985, vii + 342 pp. Women and Reason (edited with E. Harvey), University of Michigan Press, 1992, 294 pp. PSA 1992, volume one (edited with D. Hull and M. Forbes), Philosophy of Science Association, 1992, xxx +552 pp. PSA 1992, volume two (edited with D. Hull and M. Forbes), Philosophy of Science Association, 1993, xix + 496 pp. APhilosophical Feminism: Challenges to Science@, with A. Wylie, Resources for Feminist Research, vol. 16, no. 3, 1988, pp. 379-388. AFeminist Critiques of Science: The Epistemological and Methodological Literature@, with A. Wylie, S. Morton, and L. Thielen-Wilson, Women=s Studies International Forum, vol. 12, no. 3, 1989, pp. 97-113 AThe Foundation of All Philosophy: Newton=s Third Rule@, in J. Brown and J. Mittelstrass (eds.) An Intimate Relation: Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science, Dordrecht: Kluwer, 1989. APhilosophical Feminism: A Bibliographic Guide to Critiques of Science@ (with A. Wylie, L. Thielen-Wilson, and S. Morton) Resources for Feminist Research, June 1990, pp 2-36. ALogical Empiricism, Feminism, and Neurath=s Auxiliary Motive@. Hypatia 19.1, Winter 2004, pp. 48-72. Critical Notice of Scientific Representation: Paradoxes of Perspective by Bas C. van Fraassen, Canadian Journal of Philosophy (forthcoming 2009).
Membership in Academic Societies: 
Canadian Philosophical Association History of Science Society (formerly) Leibniz Society of America Philosophy of Science Association Canadian Society for Women in Philosophy North American Kant Society (formerly) Canadian Society for History and Philosophy of Science
Courses Taught: 
Undergraduate Courses Taught: Biomedical Ethics Structure of Scientific Theories The Scientific Revolution Ethics and Medicine Philosophy of Science Liberal Studies in Science Great Philosophers: Bertrand Russell John Stuart Mill Symbolic Logic Reasoning and Critical Thinking Seminar in 20th Century Philosophy Hilary Putnam Philosophical Issues in Feminism Introduction to Philosophy Early Modern Philosophy Feminist Theories of Knowledge Feminist Ethics and Social Political Philosophy Philosophy of Physics Science and Values Graduate Courses Taught: Scientific and Metaphysical Realism Scientific Revolution: Space and Time, Matter and Method Philosophy of Science Space and Time Laws of Nature Reductionism and the Unity of Science Feminist Theories of Knowledge Feminist Ethics and Social Political Philosophy Peirce on Chance and Probability (reading course) The Human Genome Project (reading course) Unification in the Physical Sciences (reading course) Explanation in Molecular & Evolutionary Biology (reading course) Representation and Realism (reading course) Naturalized Epistemology (reading course) Philosophical Issues in the IQ Debates (reading course) Models, Maps, Metaphors and Pictures (prospectus course) Peirce and Spinoza (prospectus course) Values in Science John Stuart Mill