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Catherine Hundleby, Research Fellow

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Dr. Hundleby joined the Philosophy Department at Windsor in 2003, but has also taught at Eastern Oregon University and the University of Western Ontario. She received SSHRC funding for the (October 3-5) 2008 conference on “Reason, Activism, and Change” organized on behalf of the Canadian Society for Women in Philosophy (CSWIP), and received NEH funding for the 2003 summer seminar on Feminist Epistemologies at the Pennsylvania State University. At UWO she was on the teaching honour roll in 2001, and in 2003 she received an essay prize from the Society for Analytic Feminism. Her work is on feminist epistemology with a focus on feminist philosophy of science. She is active in CSWIP and in the Association for Feminist Epistemologies, Methodologies, Metaphysics, and Science Studies (FEMMSS: www.femmss.org), which she helped found in 2004. Her research appears in a range of feminist journals across the disciplines.

Areas of Interest

Current Research:

Dr. Hundleby’s two current research projects both address the dialogical nature of argumentation. The first is a feminist epistemological approach to fallacy theory. The second is an epistemology of silence that draws on recent work in feminist rhetoric. Further, she is co-editing (with Phyllis Rooney) a special issue of the journal Informal Logic on “Reasoning for Change” that builds on the themes of the 2008 conference “Reason, Activism & Change: Philosophical Considerations.” The aim of this volume is to create constructive dialogue between argumentation theory and liberatory epistemologies such as feminist epistemology.

Research Interests

Feminist philosophy, epistemology, philosophy of science, fallacy theory, feminist rhetoric.

Research Information

 Recent Funding:

  • Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) Research Communication Grant: $18,000. Project title: “Reason, Activism & Change: Philosophical Considerations.” Project Duration: 2008 - 2009.
  • U.S.A. National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Summer Seminar Stipend: $3000 to participate in the Summer Seminar on Feminist Epistemologies at the Pennsylvania State University, organized by Nancy Tuana and Shannon Sullivan, 2003.

Recent Publications:

  • “Silence and Scientific Objectivity,” International Feminist Journal of Politics (forthcoming 2008).
  • Review of Sandra Harding’s Science and Social Inequality (2006), Signs: A Journal of Women in Culture and Society (forthcoming 2008).
  • “Feminist Empiricism,” in ed. Sharlene Hesse-Biber, A Handbook of Feminist Research, Sage, 2007, pp. 29-44.
  • “The Epistemological Value of Oppositional Secrets,” Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy, 4(20), Fall 2005, 44-58.

 

Teaching Interests

Supervision:
MA supervision:

  • Amy Butchart (2008): “Foucault and the Masculine Medical Norm.” Currently in PhD program at the University of Guelph.
  • Lauri Daitchman (2007): “Moral Perception and Pornography.” Currently in law school.
  • Sulma Portillo (2007): “Uneven Benefactors and Beneficiaries: Mill on the Social Utility of Free Expression”. Currently in private sector.
Educational Qualifications

Ph.D. University of Western Ontario (2001)