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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 met her husband, Dr Jon Hesk from the School of Classics, in St Andrews, and married in 2003.
He married Katherine Hawley in 1619, in Nettlecombe, Somerset, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 7 sons and 3 daughters. He died on 23 March 1653, in Nettlecombe, Somerset, England, United Kingdom.
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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 · The last time we corresponded was briefly on the last day of 2019 when Katherine messaged to check on how my family and I were coping in Australia with the awful bushfires that summer, a small kindness now magnified by my knowledge of the much greater challenges that Katherine had ahead of her.
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Jun 10, 2023 · Sensitive and insightful, Katherine was alive to ways in which she might help others, whether pointing out a relevant research paper, or encouraging and helping a colleague to apply for a promotion or a grant. Above all, Katherine made St Andrews a better and more collegial place to do philosophy.
