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Katherine Jane Hawley FRSE FBA (1971-2021 [1]) was a British philosopher specialising in metaphysics, epistemology, ethics, and philosophy of physics. Hawley was a professor of philosophy at the University of St Andrews. [2] She was the author of How Things Persist (OUP 2002), Trust: a Very Short Introduction (OUP 2012), and How To Be ...
She met her husband, Dr Jon Hesk from the School of Classics, in St Andrews, and married in 2003.
Jun 10, 2023 · Katherine Hawley (1971–2021) This special issue of The Philosophical Quarterly on the work of Katherine Hawley is dedicated to her memory. For those who knew her, I hope these words will remind you of your own recollections of Katherine; for those who didn’t, that it provides some background to the papers to come.
May 14, 2021 · John Haldane. Katherine was a person of rare distinction: intellectually gifted, hard-working, and highly accomplished; she was also sensitive and compassionate; principled but prudent and pragmatic. She came to St Andrews from a research fellowship in Cambridge in 1999.
May 27, 2021 · Greatly admired within her discipline, Professor Hawley was honoured with prestigious fellowships by both the Royal Society of Edinburgh and the British Academy. She died of cancer on 28 April and is survived by her husband, also an academic at St Andrews, and two children.
May 9, 2021 · In recollections of Katherine’s philosophical work, a lot of the focus has, understandably, been on her outstanding work on the metaphysics of time and persistence, and on trust, which were the respective subjects of her two major books.
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Jun 26, 2015 · June 26, 2015 By Meena Krishnamurthy in Uncategorized. Katherine Hawley is Professor of Philosophy at the University of St Andrews; she lives in Anstruther in the Kingdom of Fife. She is the author of How Things Persist (OUP 2001), and Trust: a Very Short Introduction (OUP 2012), as well as articles on various topics in metaphysics, and on ...
