Biography:Kathleen Lennon

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Kathleen Lennon, a former Ferens Professor of Philosophy, is an Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the University of Hull, England .

Career

After studying for her undergraduate degree at the University of Kent, Lennon obtained her master's degree and doctorate from the University of Oxford. In 1979, she was employed as a lecturer by the University of Hull.[1] Lennon was a founder of the university's Centre for Gender Studies in 1986, and of the Society for Women in Philosophy in 1989.[2][3]

After some thirty years at the university, Lennon was, in 2008, appointed Ferens Professor of Philosophy[1] giving her inaugural lecture, 'Re- enchanting the World: the role of Imagination in Perception' in 2009.[4][5] She retired from the chair in 2014.[1]

Her research areas are gender theory, the philosophy of mind, and embodiment, within the context of contemporary Anglo-American and Continental philosophy.[2]

Publications

  • Explaining Human Action (London: Duckworth, 1990).
  • Philosophy of Mind, with Steve Burwood and Paul Gilbert (London: Taylor and Francis, 1998).
  • Theorizing Gender, with Rachel Alsop and Annette FitzSimons (Cambridge: Polity, 2002).
  • The World, the Flesh and the Subject: Continental Themes in Philosophy of Mind and body, with Paul Gilbert (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2005).
  • ’’Gender Theory in Troubled Times’’, with Dr. Rachel Alsop

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