Katherine Brading

William J. and Dorothy K. O'Neill Collegiate Professor of Philosophy

Contact Information

Mailing Address:
Department of Philosophy
University of Notre Dame
100 Malloy Hall
Notre Dame, IN 46556

Phone: (574) 631-6112
E-Mail: kbrading@nd.edu

Office: 316 Malloy
Office Hours: By Appt.

Homepage: http://www.nd.edu/~kbrading

Curriculum Vitae

Education:


D. Phil., University of Oxford

Areas of Interest:


Philosophy of Physics, Philosophy of Science

Selected Bibliography

Recent Publications:

  • ‘On composite systems: Descartes, Newton, and the law-constitutive approach’, in Vanishing Matter and the Laws of Nature: Descartes and Beyond, ed. Dana Jalobeanu and Peter Anstey, Studies in Seventeenth-Century Philosophy, Routledge, 2011.

  • ‘Newton’s law-constitutive approach to bodies: a response to Descartes’, in Interpreting Newton: critical essays, ed. A. Janiak & E. Schliesser, Cambridge University Press, 2011.

  • ‘Structuralist approaches to physics: objects, models and modality’, Boston Studies in Philosophy of Science, ed. Alisa and Peter Bokulich, Springer, 2011.

  • ‘Autonomous patterns and scientific realism’, Philosophy of Science 77, 2010.

  • ‘Hilbert’s “Foundations of Physics”: Gravitation and electromagnetism within the axiomatic method’, with T. A. Ryckman,  Studies in the History and Philosophy of Modern Physics 39, pp. 102-153, 2008.

  • "Hilbert's "Foundations of Physics": Gravitation and elecromagnetism within the axiomatic method", with T.A. Ryckman, Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics 39, 2008, pp. 102-153.
  • "Hilbert's "Foundations of Physics": Gravitation and elecromagnetism within the axiomatic method", with T.A. Ryckman, Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics 39, 2008, pp. 102-153.
  • Review article: L. Corry, David Hilbert and the Axiomatization of Physics (1898-1918), in Philosophia Mathematica (III) 15, 2007, 1-16.
  • "Symmetry in classical physics", with E. Castellani, in J. Butterfield and J. Earman (eds.), Handbook of the Philosophy of Physics, North-Holland, 2007, pp. 1331-1367
  • "Scientific Structuralism: Presentation and Representation", with E. Landry, Philosophy of Science 73, 2006, pp. 571-81.
  • "A Note on General Relativity, Energy Conservation, and Noether’s Theorems", The Universe of General Relativity, Einstein Studies Vol 11, A. J. Kox and J. Eisenstaedt (eds.), 2005, pp. 125-135.
  • "Are gauge symmetry transformations observable?", with H.R. Brown, The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 55, 2004, pp. 645-665.

 

See http://www.nd.edu/~kbrading

Books:

  • Symmetries in Physics: Philosophical Reflections, K.A. Brading and E. Castellani (eds.), Cambridge University Press, 2003.