Kathleen Lennon
Kathleen Lennon, a former Ferens Professor of Philosophy, is an Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the University of Hull, England.
Career
[edit]After studying for her undergraduate degree at the University of Kent, Lennon obtained her master's degree and doctorate from the University of Oxford. In 1979, she was employed as a lecturer by the University of Hull.[1] Lennon was a founder of the university's Centre for Gender Studies in 1986, and of the Society for Women in Philosophy in 1989.[2][3]
After some thirty years at the university, Lennon was, in 2008, appointed Ferens Professor of Philosophy[1] giving her inaugural lecture, 'Re- enchanting the World: the role of Imagination in Perception' in 2009.[4][5] She retired from the chair in 2014.[1]
Her research areas are gender theory, the philosophy of mind, and embodiment, within the context of contemporary Anglo-American and Continental philosophy.[2]
Publications
[edit]- Explaining Human Action (London: Duckworth, 1990).
- Philosophy of Mind, with Steve Burwood and Paul Gilbert (London: Taylor and Francis, 1998).
- Theorizing Gender, with Rachel Alsop and Annette FitzSimons (Cambridge: Polity, 2002).
- The World, the Flesh and the Subject: Continental Themes in Philosophy of Mind and body, with Paul Gilbert (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2005).
- ’’Gender Theory in Troubled Times’’, with Dr. Rachel Alsop
References
[edit]- ^ a b c "kathleen lennon | University of Hull - Academia.edu". hull.academia.edu. Retrieved 30 March 2021.
- ^ a b "Prof. Kathleen Lennon". University of Hull. Retrieved 18 May 2011.
- ^ "History of SWIP" (PDF). Society for Women in Philosophy. Retrieved 18 May 2011.
- ^ "Inaugural Lecture". University of Hull. Archived from the original on 8 October 2011. Retrieved 18 May 2011.
- ^ "Bulletin" (PDF). University of Hull. Retrieved 18 May 2011.[dead link]
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- Postmodern feminists
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- English women philosophers
- Analytic philosophers
- Continental philosophers
- 20th-century English philosophers
- 20th-century English women
- 21st-century English women