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: M 4:30-5:30, T 3:20-4:00, R 3:30-5:30 or By Appointment

Education:

Ph.D., Columbia University

Areas of Interest:

Philosophy of Science, Science and Values, Feminist Philosophy

Selected Bibliography

Recent Articles:

• "Philosophers of Science as Public Intellectuals," forthcoming
• "Getting the Ethical into Scientific Rationality," Science in the Context of Application: Methodological Change, Conceptual Transformation, Cultural Reorientation, Martin Carrier and Alfred Nordmann (eds.), Springer, forthcoming
• "The Place of Standpoint Theory in Feminist Science Studies," Hypatia, 24(4), 2009
• “Why Are Women Only 21% of Philosophy?” American Philosophical Association Newsletter on Feminism and Philosophy (Introduction), 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.), 7(1), Fall, 2007
• “Getting Philosophy of Science Socially Connected,” Philosophy of Science 73(5) (Proceedings) , 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 67(5) (Proceedings), 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:

• Philosophy of Science After Feminism, Oxford University Press, 2010
• The Challenge of the Social and the Pressure of Practice: Science and Values Revisited (ed. with Martin Carrier and Don Howard), University of Pittsburgh Press, 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 University Press, 1998
• Scientific Knowledge (ed.), Wadsworth, 1998, 1987