| Letitia Meynell | |
| 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 | |
| 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). She submitted her thesis, Picture hooks: prelude to an aesthetic epistemololgy (which was supervised by Brian Grant), in January 1998. She went on to read for a PhD in Philosophy at the University of Western Ontario. 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. | |
| 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. 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. | |
| Meynell was subsequently promoted to associate professor and full professor. 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. 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. | |
| Selected publications | |
| 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 | |
| External links | |
| Personal website | |
| Letitia Meynell at PhilPeople | |
| Letitia Meynell at Google Scholar |