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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]
About Katherine. Katherine Hawley was a much loved and respected member of the philosophy department at St Andrews, who died, aged 50, in 2021. She grew up in Stoke-on-Trent, before she went to read Physics and Philosophy at Balliol College, Oxford, before moving to the University of Cambridge’s Department of History and Philosophy of Science ...
Professor Katherine Hawley was a much loved and highly respected colleague in the Department of Philosophy at the University of St Andrews.
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 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 6, 2021 · Professor of Philosophy at the University of St Andrews, Professor Hawley was known for wide-ranging contributions to metaphysics, epistemology, ethics, and philosophy of science. She died, tragically, of cancer.
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Katherine Hawley was a Professor of Philosophy at the University of St Andrews until her death in April 2021. In the last few years of her life, Katherine’s research focused on questions around: disinformation, political polarisation, and the role of experts.
