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Katherine Hawley

Born

The United Kingdom

Died

April 28, 2021

Website

http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/~kjh5/

Genre

Nonfiction, Philosophy, Metaphysics

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Katherine Hawley grew up in Stoke-on-Trent, studied Physics and Philosophy at Balliol College, Oxford, spent a few inarticulate months living in France, then moved to Cambridge, where she took an M.Phil. and subsequently a Ph.D. in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science (working with Peter Lipton). She was Henry Sidgwick Research Fellow of Newnham College, Cambridge, before taking up a lectureship at St Andrews in 1999. Hawley had two children who were born in 2004.

Professor Hawley was known for her philosophical work on trust, various questions in metaphysics, epistemology, and philosophy of science, and other topics such as impostor syndrome and creativity.

Her work in public philosophy included interviews, radio and podcast ...more

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Katherine Hawley’s books

Average rating: 3.69 · 155 ratings · 19 reviews · 5 distinct works • Similar authors

	Trust: A Very Short Introduction 3.55 avg rating — 121 ratings — published 2012 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	How Things Persist 4.43 avg rating — 21 ratings — published 2002 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	How To Be Trustworthy 3.75 avg rating — 12 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Admissible Contents of Experience by Katherine Hawley (Editor), Fiona MacPherson (Editor) 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2011 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Philosophy of Science Today by Peter Clark (editor), Katherine Hawley (Editor) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2003	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Quotes by Katherine Hawley (?)

“At the very least, many of us can recognize a
feeling of reluctance to engage someone in conversation unless either
we’re happy to continue indefinitely or else we know that some external
event will soon bring the conversation to an end. (Or perhaps that’s a
peculiarly British problem.) (pp90)”
― Katherine Hawley, How To Be Trustworthy

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“the trustworthy person is brave enough to say ‘no’ to commitments she won’t be able to fulfil.”
― Katherine Hawley, Trust: A Very Short Introduction

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