Helen Beebee | |
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Education | |
Alma mater | University of Warwick University of Liverpool King's College London |
Philosophical work | |
Era | Contemporary |
Institutions | Australian National University University of Manchester University of Birmingham |
Main interests | Metaphysics,causation,free will |
Helen Beebee FBA is Professor of Philosophy of Science at the University of Leeds and a Fellow of the British Academy. [1] Previously,Beebee was the Samuel Hall Professor of Philosophy at Manchester. [2]
Beebee's work has been influential across a wide variety of fields,including causation,free will,and natural kinds. [3] Eric Schliesser,writing on NewApps,described Beebee as 'one of the most prominent metaphysicists of our time'. [3] Beebee has a significant interest in the problem of underrepresentation of women in the field of philosophy,and has spoken about the problems that face women philosophers in a modern academic context,such as in her paper "Women and Deviance in Philosophy". [4] [5]
Beebee received her bachelor's from the University of Warwick,her master's from the University of Liverpool,and her doctorate from King's College London. [5]
Beebee is currently the Samuel Hall Professor of Philosophy at the University of Manchester,a position she has held since 2012. [5] Before her current position,Beebee held full-time appointments at the University of Manchester,and the University of Birmingham. [5] During her time at Birmingham,she served as Head of Department,and later as Head of School. [5] Besides for her permanent appointments,Beebee has also held temporary appointments at the University of Edinburgh,University of St Andrews,and the University College,London,and has also held a postdoctoral position at Australian National University. [5]
A majority of Beebee's research could be broadly classed as dealing with Humeanism and related issues. [5] She has written on a wide variety of topics related to Humeanism,including attempting to tackle the question of whether or not the laws of nature govern what happens,whether inductive scepticism follows necessarily from a Humeanistic approach,and whether or not it is possible to observe causal relations in a meaningful way. [5] She has also written on Hume himself. [5] Beebee also has a secondary interest in free will,particularly in bringing Humean approaches to the problem of compatibilitism. [5]
Beebee is on the editorial boards of Hume Studies as well as the Australasian Journal of Philosophy . She's also an associate editor of the British Journal for the Philosophy of Science . [5] She has co-authored two textbooks,written two books and numerous book chapters,and published a number of peer-reviewed papers in journals of philosophy. [5]