Janet Kourany
Title
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
Email: jkourany@nd.edu
Office: 303 Malloy Hall
Office Hours:
Education
Ph.D., Columbia University
Areas of Interest
Philosophy of Science, Science and Values, Feminist Philosophy, Agnotology
Profile
Recent Articles:
- "Meeting the Challenges to Socially Responsible Science: Reply to Brown, Lacey, and Potter," Philosophical Studies, forthcoming
- “The Ideal of Socially Responsible Science: Reply to Dupré, Rolin, Solomon, and Giere,” Perspectives on Science, 20 (3) (Fall 2012)
- “Sexual Harassment in the Academy: Opening the Discussion,” American Philosophical Association Newsletter on Feminism and Philosophy, II (2) (Spring 2012)
- “Feminist Critiques: Harding and Longino,” Philosophy of Science: The Key Thinkers, James Robert Brown (ed.), Continuum, 2012
- “Integrating the Ethical into Scientific Rationality,” Science in the Context of Application: Methodological Change, Conceptual Transformation, Cultural Reorientation, Martin Carrier and Alfred Nordmann (eds.), Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science, vol. 274, Springer, 2011
- “How Do Women Fare in Philosophy Journals: An Introduction,” American Philosophical Association Newsletter on Feminism and Philosophy 10(1), 2010
- “John Forge, The Responsible Scientist: A Philosophical Inquiry” (Review),Philosophy of Science 77(1), 2010
- "The Place of Standpoint Theory in Feminist Science Studies," Hypatia, 24(4), 2009
- “Why Are Women Only 21% of Philosophy?: An Introduction” American Philosophical Association Newsletter on Feminism and Philosophy 8(2), 2009
- "Philosophy of Science: A Subject with a Great Future," Philosophy of Science 75(5), 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.), University of Pittsburgh Press, 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), 2007
- “Getting Philosophy of Science Socially Connected,” Philosophy of Science73(5), 2006
- “Feminist Philosophy of Science: Contemporary Perspectives,” Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 2nd ed., vol. 3, Don Borchert (ed.), 2006
- “A Feminist Primer for Philosophers of Science,” Philosophie und/als Wissenschaft, Christian Nimtz and Ansgar Beckermann (eds.), Mentis, 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.), Blackwell, 2004
- A Philosophy of Science for the Twenty-First Century," Philosophy of Science70(1), 2003
- Reply to Giere," Philosophy of Science 70(1), 2003
- Socially Responsible Directions for Philosophy of Science," Scrutinizing Feminist Epistemology, Cassandra Pinnick, Noretta Koertge, and Robert Almeder (eds.), Rutgers University Press, 2003
- "A Successor to the Realism/Anti-Realism Question," Philosophy of Science 67(5) (Proceedings), 2000
- "What Does Feminism Contribute to Philosophy of Science?" Controversies in Feminism, James P. Sterba (ed.), Rowman and Littlefield, 2000
- "No Need to Be Sorry, Virginia," Controversies in Feminism, James P. Sterba (ed.), Rowman and Littlefield, 2000
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