Steigerwald, Joan - History/ Philosophy

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Personal Information
First Name: 
Joan
Last Name: 
Steigerwald
Department / Program: 
OTHER
Other: 
Humanities
University Affiliation: 
York University
Phone: 
4167362100
Extension: 
70417
Email Address: 
steiger@yorku.ca
Area of Research
Discipline: 
History/ Philosophy
Subject: 
Science
Geographical Region: 
Germany
Time Period: 
18th and 19th Century
Specific Area of Research: 
German natural philosophy at the turn of the 19th century, with emphasis on the interrelationship between experiments on organic phenomena, philosophical reflections upon the problem of knowledge of living organisms and aesthetics.
Academics
PHD Program: 
Philosophy
PHD University: 
King's College, University of London
PHD Date: 
1998
Major Publications: 
“Natural Purposes and the Reflecting Power of Judgment: The Problem of the Organism in Kant’s Critical Philosophy.” European Romantic Review 21:3 (2010): 291-308. Reprinted in Romanticism and Modernity, eds. Robert Mitchell and Thomas Pfau. New York: Routledge, 2011, 29-46. 'Kantian Teleology and the Biological Sciences.' Ed. Joan Steigerwald. Special Issue of Studies in History and Philosophy Of The Biological and Biomedical Sciences 37: 4 (2006). “Figuring Nature, Figuring the (Fe)male: The Frontispiece to Humboldt’s Ideas Towards a Geography of Plants.” In Figuring it Out: Science, Gender and Visual Culture, ed. by Anne Shteir and Bernhard Lightman. University Press of New England, 2006, pp. 54-82. “Figuring Nature: Ritter's Galvanic Inscriptions.” European Romantic Review, 18: 2 (2007): 255-63. Expanded version reprinted in Bulletin de la Société d'Histoire et d'Epistémologie des Sciences de la Vie 2 (2008). "Epistemologies of Rupture: The Problem of Nature in Schelling’s Philosophy." Studies in Romanticism 41 (2002): 545-84. "Goethe’s Morphology: Urphänomene and Aesthetic Appraisal." Journal of the History of Biology 35 (2002): 291-328.
Membership in Academic Societies: 
North American Society for the Study of Romanticism; Canadian Society for the History and Philosophy of Science; Society for Science and Literature; International Society for the History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Biology; HSS
Courses Taught: 
The Ends of Enlightenment: Critical Philosophy and the Philosophy of Nature; Representations of Nature: Cultural and Historical Perspectives; Nature in Narrative; Darwin, Einstein and the Humanities; Science and the Humanities.