Janet Kourany

Janet Kourany

Associate Professor of Philosophy

Contact Information

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

Phone: (574) 631-6864
E-Mail: jkourany@nd.edu

Office: 303 Malloy Hall
Office Hours: by appointment

Education:


Ph.D., Columbia University

Areas of Interest:


Philosophy of Science, Science and Values, Feminist Philosophy

Selected Bibliography

Recent Articles:

  • "Towards a More Political Philosophy of Science," Science in the Context of Application: Methodological Change, Conceptual Transformation, Cultural Reorientation, Martin Carrier and Alfred Nordmann (eds.), forthcoming
  • "The Contribution of Standpoint Theory to Feminist Epistemology," Hypatia, Fall, 2009
  • "Philosophy of Science: A Subject with a Great Future," Philosophy of Science (Proceedings), 2008
  • "Replacing the Ideal of Value-Free Science," The Challenge of the Social and the Pressure of Practice: Science and Values Revisited, Martin Carrier, Don Howard, and Janet Kourany (eds.), 2008
  • "Making a Place for the Other" American Philosophical Association Newsletter on Feminism and Philosophy (special issue on "Women's Choices: Family Matters in the Profession"), Sally Scholz (ed.), Fall, 2007
  • “Getting Philosophy of Science Socially Connected,” Philosophy of Science (Proceedings) 73, 2006
  • “Feminist Philosophy of Science: Contemporary Perspectives,” Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 2nd ed., Don Borchert (ed.), 2006
  • “A Feminist Primer for Philosophers of Science,” Philosophie und/als Wissenschaft, Christian Nimtz and Ansgar Beckermann (eds.), 2005
  • “How to Complete the Compatibilist Account of Free Action” (with James Sterba), Philosophy: The Big Questions, Ruth Sample, Charles Mills, and James Sterba (eds.), 2004
  • "A Philosophy of Science for the Twenty-First Century" and "Reply to Giere," Philosophy of Science 70, 2003
  • "Socially Responsible Directions for Philosophy of Science," Scrutinizing Feminist Epistemology, Cassandra Pinnick, Noretta Koertge, and Robert Almeder (eds.), 2003
  • "A Successor to the Realism/Anti-Realism Question," Philosophy of Science (Proceedings) 67, 2000
  • "What Does Feminism Contribute to Philosophy of Science?" and "No Need to Be Sorry, Virginia," Controversies in Feminism, James Sterba (ed.), 2000
  • "Philosophy in a Feminist Voice?" and "A New Program for Philosophy of Science, in Many Voices," Philosophy in a Feminist Voice, Janet Kourany (ed.), 1998



Books:

  • The Challenge of the Social and the Pressure of Practice: Science and Values Revisited (ed. with Martin Carrier and Don Howard), Pittsburgh, 2008
  • The Gender of Science (ed.), Prentice Hall, 2002
  • Feminist Philosophies (ed. with James Sterba and Rosemarie Tong), Prentice Hall, 1999, 1992
  • Philosophy in a Feminist Voice (ed.), Princeton, 1998
  • Scientific Knowledge (ed.), Wadsworth, 1998, 1987 
  • Political Women and American Democracy Conference :: May 25-27