Letitia Meynell

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Letitia Meynell is a Canadian philosopher who is a Professor of Philosophy at Dalhousie University. Her work concerns philosophy of science, epistemology, feminist philosophy, and human/animal relationships.

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Career

Meynell read a BA (Hons) in Theatre at York University (1989-93), and then a MA in Philosophy at the University of Calgary (1995-8). [1] [2] She submitted her thesis, Picture hooks: prelude to an aesthetic epistemololgy (which was supervised by Brian Grant), in January 1998. [3] She went on to read for a PhD in Philosophy at the University of Western Ontario. [1] Her thesis, Representing, imagining and understanding: The aesthetics and epistemology of images in science, was supervised by Kathleen Okruhlik; the other committee members were Patrick Maynard and Wayne Myrvold. Kendall Walton was the external examiner. [2]

After completing her PhD and working as an instructor at Western Ontario, Meynell took on a limited-term assistant professorship at Dalhousie University's Department of Philosophy, with a cross appointment in the Gender and Women's Studies Programme. She took on a tenure track assistant professorship at Dalhousie in 2008. [2] Shortly afterwards, Meynell's first book, Embodiment and Agency, was published by Penn State University Press. This collection was co-edited with Sue Campbell and Susan Sherwin. [4]

Meynell was subsequently promoted to associate professor [5] and full professor. [1] Her second book, Thought Experiments in Science, Philosophy and the Arts, was co-edited with Melanie Frappier and James Robert Brown and published by Routledge in 2012. [6] Her third was Chimpanzee Rights: The Philosophers' Brief, which was co-authored with Kristin Andrews, Gary Comstock, G. K. D. Crozier, Sue Donaldson, Andrew Fenton, Tyler M. John, L. Syd M. Johnson, Robert Jones, Will Kymlicka, Nathan Nobis, David Peña-Guzmán, and Jeff Sebo. [7]

Selected publications

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Letitia Meynell". Dalhousie University. Retrieved 12 July 2023.
  2. 1 2 3 Meynell, Letitia (19 November 2012). "CV" . Retrieved 12 July 2023.
  3. ↑ Meynell, Letitia (1998). Picture hooks: prelude to an aesthetic epistemololgy (Thesis). University of Calgary. doi:10.11575/PRISM/19615.
  4. ↑ Reviews:
  5. ↑ "Letitia Meynell". Dalhousie University. Retrieved 16 July 2023.
  6. ↑ Reviews:
    • Rowbottom, Darrell P. (2015). "Thought Experiments in Science, Philosophy, and the Arts". HOPOS . 5 (2): 348–52. doi:10.1086/682375.
  7. ↑ Reviews:
    • Benz-Schwarzburg, Judith (February 2019). "Review" (PDF). EurSafe News. 21 (1): 10–11.
    • Thompson, R. Paul (September 2020). "Chimpanzee Rights". The Quarterly Review of Biology. 95 (3): 253–254. doi:10.1086/710398.
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Knowing Animals
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Meynell discusses her 2021 paper "Gendering Animals" on Knowing Animals
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