Professor Katherine Hawley Short CV – Updated March 2019

Professor Katherine Hawley Short CV – updated March 2019

2008-present Professor of Philosophy, University of St Andrews. 1999-2008 Lecturer, then Senior Lecturer, University of St Andrews. (Spring 2003 Gillespie (Associate) Professor, College of Wooster, Ohio.) 1997-1999 Sidgwick Research Fellow, Newnham College Cambridge.

1994-1997 Ph.D., University of Cambridge (graduated June 1998). 1993-1994 M.Phil., History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge. 1989-1992 B.A. Hons., Physics and Philosophy, University of Oxford.

Grants, Prizes, Honours  Workshop grant from the Royal Society of Edinburgh for ‘Exoplanet Ethics’ (£8000).  Elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 2016  Research award from Philosophy and Science of Self-Control project, sponsored by John Templeton Foundation, 2016-17 (£38,286)  Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship, 2014-16 (£94,445)  Local PI for Marie Curie Initial Training Network 2009-2013 (St Andrews: £153K)  AHRB Research Leave award 2004 (£13,153)  Philip Leverhulme Prize 2003 (Research prize of £50,000)  British Academy Joint Activities grant (£4,500 to fund collaboration with philosophers at the University of Western Washington during 2003-5)

Books  How To Be Trustworthy, Oxford: Oxford University Press (in press, forthcoming 2019).  Trust: A Very Short Introduction, Oxford: Oxford University Press (2012) (121 pp.)  The Admissible Contents of Perception, edited with Fiona MacPherson, Oxford: Wiley- Blackwell (2011). Re-issue of PQ special issue 59.236, new introduction authored by FM.  Philosophy of Science Today, edited with Peter Clark, Oxford: Oxford University Press (2003). Re-issue of British Journal of Philosophy of Science special anniversary issue.  How Things Persist, Oxford: Oxford University Press (2001) (xi + 221 pp.) Selections reprinted in Haslanger and Fay (eds.) Persistence, MIT Press (2004).

Selected Articles  ‘What Is Impostor Syndrome?’ Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society SV 93 (2019).  ‘Social Mereology’, Journal of the APA, 3.4, 395-411 (2017).  ‘Trust, Distrust and Commitment’, Noûs 48.1: 1-20 (2014).  ‘Ontological Innocence’ in Composition as Identity, edited by A.J. Cotnoir and Donald L.M. Baxter, Oxford University Press, 70-89 (2014).  ‘Partiality and Prejudice in Trusting’, Synthese 191.9, 2029-2045 (2014).

 ‘What are Natural Kinds?’ (first author, with Alexander Bird) Philosophical Perspectives 25.1 (2011), 205-221.  ‘Knowing How and Epistemic Injustice’, in Knowing How: Essays on Knowledge, Mind and Action, eds. Bengson and Moffett, Oxford University Press, 283-99. (2011)  ‘Testimony and Knowing How’, Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science Part A 41.4: 397-404. (2010)  ‘Mereology, Modality and Magic’, Australasian Journal of Philosophy 88, 117-33 (2010).  ‘Identity and Indiscernibility’, Mind 118.1, 101-119, (2009).  ‘Neo-Fregeanism and Quantifier Variance’, Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society Supplementary Volume LXXI, 233-49. (2007)  ‘Science as a Guide to Metaphysics?’, Synthese, 149 (2006), 451-470.  ‘Principles of Composition and Criteria of Identity’, Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 84.4 (2006), 481-93.  ‘Fission, Fusion and Intrinsic Facts’, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 71.3 (2005), 602-621.  ‘Borderline Simple or Extremely Simple’, Monist 87.3 (2004), 385-404.  ‘Success and Knowledge-How’, American Philosophical Quarterly, 40.1 (2003), 19-31.  ‘Persistence and Non-Supervenient Relations’, Mind, 108, (1999), 53-67. Reprinted in Haslanger and Fay (eds.) Persistence, MIT Press (2004).

Major Service Responsibilities  2017-present: Director of Research for Philosophy, University of St Andrews  2015-16: member of committee to appoint new Principal of University of St Andrews.  Deputy chair of the Philosophy panel for REF2014 (UK national research assessment).  2009-2014: Head of School of Philosophical, Anthropological and Film Studies, University of St Andrews. Overall responsibility for around 60 employees, with associated budgets.  Editorial Chair of the Philosophical Quarterly (2005-2010).  Member of the Philosophy sub-panel for RAE2008 (UK national research assessment).  Deputy Editor of the British Journal for the Philosophy of Science (1999-2001)  Former committee member of the British Society for the Philosophy of Science, the Analysis committee, the British Philosophical Association, and the Mind Association.  External examiner for taught programmes at Durham (2006-09), Edinburgh (2005-2010) and Leeds (2009-2013); external examiner for 15 PhD dissertations; tenure/promotion/ appointments assessor for numerous universities internationally; external for departmental reviews at Oxford (2015), Cambridge (2018), Copenhagen (2018).

Teaching and Research Supervision Currently principal or 50% supervisor for 6 PhD students, with a further 12 completed.

I have taught at St Andrews and Cambridge, and at the College of Wooster (Ohio), from first- year undergraduate to M.Litt. level, from large lecture groups, to small discussion seminars, areas include epistemology, metaphysics, philosophy of science, and critical thinking.