Kathleen Lennon

Short description: British philosopher

Kathleen Lennon, a former Ferens Professor of Philosophy, is an Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the University of Hull, England.

## Career

After studying for her undergraduate degree at the University of Kent, Lennon obtained her master's degree and doctorate from the University of Oxford. In 1979, she was employed as a lecturer by the University of Hull.[1] Lennon was a founder of the university's Centre for Gender Studies in 1986, and of the Society for Women in Philosophy in 1989.[2][3]

After some thirty years at the university, Lennon was, in 2008, appointed Ferens Professor of Philosophy[1] giving her inaugural lecture, 'Re- enchanting the World: the role of Imagination in Perception' in 2009.[4][5] She retired from the chair in 2014.[1]

Her research areas are gender theory, the philosophy of mind, and embodiment, within the context of contemporary Anglo-American and Continental philosophy.[2]

## Publications

* Explaining Human Action (London: Duckworth, 1990).
* Philosophy of Mind, with Steve Burwood and Paul Gilbert (London: Taylor and Francis, 1998).
* Theorizing Gender, with Rachel Alsop and Annette FitzSimons (Cambridge: Polity, 2002).
* The World, the Flesh and the Subject: Continental Themes in Philosophy of Mind and body, with Paul Gilbert (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2005).
* ’’Gender Theory in Troubled Times’’, with Dr. Rachel Alsop

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 "kathleen lennon | University of Hull - Academia.edu". https://hull.academia.edu/kathleenlennon/CurriculumVitae.
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 "Prof. Kathleen Lennon". University of Hull. http://www2.hull.ac.uk/fass/humanities/philosophy/staff-in-philosophy/lennonkathleen.aspx.
3. ↑ "History of SWIP". Society for Women in Philosophy. http://www.swipuk.org/datapubs/history_of_swip.pdf.
4. ↑ "Inaugural Lecture". University of Hull. http://www2.hull.ac.uk/fass/humanities/philosophy/events/current-research-seminars/inaugural-lecture.aspx.
5. ↑ "Bulletin". University of Hull. https://hypercontent.hull.ac.uk/portalUniNews/bulletin/0809/436.pdf. [|permanent dead link|dead link}}]

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