Katherine Brading

Assistant 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:

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

Education:

D. Phil., University of Oxford

Areas of Interest:

Philosophy of Physics, Philosophy of Science

Selected Bibliography

Recent Articles:

• "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.
• "Where lies the empirical significance of symmetry in physics?", Symétries, Contributions au séminaire de Hans-Sur-Lesse, P. Radelet (ed.), Brepols Publishers n. v., Turnhout, Belgium, 2005. pp. 63-71.

• "Are gauge symmetry transformations observable?", with Dr. H.R. Brown, The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 55, 645-665, 2004.

• "Symmetries and Noether's Theorems," with Dr. H.R. Brown, in Symmetries in Physics: Philosophical Reflections, K.A. Brading and E. Castellani (eds.), Cambridge University Press, 2003.
• "Symmetry and Symmetry-Breaking," Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, with Dr. Elena Castellani, 2003.
• "Symmetry and Symmetry-Breaking," The Oxford Companion to the History of Modern Science, OUP, 2003.
• "General Covariance from the Perspective of Noether' Theorems," with Dr. H.R. Brown, Diálogos 79, 59-86, 2002.
• "Which Symmetry? Noether, Weyl and Conservation of Electric Charge," Studies in the History and Philosophy of Modern Physics 33, 3-22, 2002.

 

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

Books:

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