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name: Katherine Hawley
about: Katherine Hawley grew up in Stoke-on-Trent, studied Physics and Philosophy at Balliol College, Oxford, spent a few inarticulate months living in France, then moved to Cambridge, where she took an M.Phil. and subsequently a Ph.D. in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science (working with Peter Lipton). She was Henry Sidgwick Research Fellow of Newnham College, Cambridge, before taking up a lectureship at St Andrews in 1999. Hawley had two children who were born in 2004. Professor Hawley was known for her philosophical work on trust, various questions in metaphysics, epistemology, and philosophy of science, and other topics such as impostor syndrome and creativity. Her work in public philosophy included interviews, radio and podcast Katherine Hawley grew up in Stoke-on-Trent, studied Physics and Philosophy at Balliol College, Oxford, spent a few inarticulate months living in France, then moved to Cambridge, where she took an M.Phil. and subsequently a Ph.D. in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science (working with Peter Lipton). She was Henry Sidgwick Research Fellow of Newnham College, Cambridge, before taking up a lectureship at St Andrews in 1999. Hawley had two children who were born in 2004. Professor Hawley was known for her philosophical work on trust, various questions in metaphysics, epistemology, and philosophy of science, and other topics such as impostor syndrome and creativity. Her work in public philosophy included interviews, radio and podcast appearances, government consulting, and a long-running column in Psychology Today.She died of cancer. ...more
death_date: 2021-04-28 00:00:00