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.

Career[edit]

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[edit]

  • Letitia Meynell (2008). "Why Feynman diagrams represent". International Studies in the Philosophy of Science 22 (1): 39-59. doi:10.1080/02698590802280902.
  • Sue Campbell, Letitia Meynell, and Susan Sherwin, eds. (2009). Embodiment and Agency. Penn State University Press.
  • Melanie Frappier, Letitia Meynell, and James Robert Brown, eds. (2012). Thought Experiments in Science, Philosophy and the Arts. Routledge.
  • Letitia Meynell (2014). "Imagination and insight: a new account of the content of thought experiments". Synthese 191 (17): 4149-68. doi:10.1007/s11229-014-0519-x.
  • Kristin Andrews, Gary Comstock, G. K. D. Crozier, Sue Donaldson, Andrew Fenton, Tyler M. John, L. Syd M. Johnson, Robert Jones, Will Kymlicka, Letitia Meynell, Nathan Nobis, David Peña-Guzmán, and Jeff Sebo (2019). Chimpanzee Rights: The Philosophers' Brief. Routledge.
  • Letitia Meynell and Andrew Lopez (2021). "Gendering animals". Synthese 199 (1-2): 4287-311. doi:10.1007/s11229-020-02979-4.

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b c "Letitia Meynell". Dalhousie University. Retrieved 12 July 2023.
  2. ^ a b c Meynell, Letitia (19 November 2012). "CV". Retrieved 12 July 2023.
  3. ^ Meynell, Letitia. 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.

External links[edit]

External audio
Knowing Animals
audio icon Episode 219: Gendering animals with Letitia Meynell
Meynell discusses her 2021 paper "Gendering Animals" on Knowing Animals
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