Carrie Ichikawa Jenkins is a Canadian philosopher who holds a Canada Research Chair[1] and is Professor of Philosophy at the University of British Columbia.[2] She is also a professor at the Northern Institute of Philosophy, University of Aberdeen.[3] Her primary research areas are epistemology, metaphysics, philosophy of logic, philosophy of language, and philosophy of mathematics.[4] She is one of the principal editors of the journal Thought.[5]
Carrie Ichikawa Jenkins | |
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| Alma mater | Trinity College, Cambridge |
| Era | Contemporary philosophy |
| Region | Western philosophy |
| School | Analytic |
| Institutions | University of British Columbia, University of Aberdeen |
Main interests | Epistemology, metaphysics, philosophy of logic, philosophy of language, philosophy of mathematics, philosophy of love |
Education and career
editJenkins holds BA, MPhil and PhD degrees in philosophy from Trinity College, Cambridge.[4]
She has held teaching and research positions at the University of St Andrews, the Australian National University, the University of Michigan and the University of Nottingham.[4] She was head of the department of philosophy at the University of Nottingham from 2010 to 2011.[4]
Jenkins was awarded a Canada Research Chair by the Canadian Government in 2011.[1]
Jenkins is also a member of the philosophy-themed musical group The 21st Century Monads.[6]
Jenkins became involved in a dispute with Brian Leiter, a professor at the University of Chicago and then editor of the Philosophical Gourmet Report. His emailed remarks about Jenkins led to hundreds of philosophers refusing to provide data for the report, and ultimately led to his stepping down as its editor.[7][8]
Personal life
editAs of 2017, Jenkins has both a boyfriend and a husband. That year she stated, "I've been openly nonmonogamous for five or six years. Over the last four years, I’ve been involved in several long-term simultaneous relationships, and so the term polyamory has felt more appropriate."[9]
Selected publications
edit- Grounding Concepts: An Empirical Basis for Arithmetical Knowledge (OUP, 2008, ISBN 978-0-19-923157-7)[10]
- 'The Philosophy of Flirting': http://media.wiley.com/product_data/excerpt/25/14443302/1444330225.pdf
- 'Concepts, Experience and Modal Knowledge': http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1520-8583.2010.00193.x/abstract
- 'Romeo, René, and the Reasons Why: What Explanation Is': http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1467-9264.2008.00236.x/abstract
- What Love Is: And What It Could Be. United States: Basic Books, 2017.
References
edit- ^ a b "Canada Research Chair – Profile". chairs-chaires.gc.ca. 2012-11-29.
- ^ "Carrie Jenkins – Department of Philosophy". ubc.ca.
- ^ "Northern Institute of Philosophy". Archived from the original on March 26, 2014.
- ^ a b c d "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-11-08. Retrieved 2014-04-21.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) - ^ "Thought: A Journal of Philosophy". Wiley. doi:10.1002/(ISSN)2161-2234.
- ^ "The 21st Century Monads". the21stcenturymonads.net.
- ^ Schmidt, Peter (September 26, 2014). "The Man Who Ranks Philosophy Departments Now Rankles Them, Too". The Chronicle of Higher Education. Archived from the original on September 26, 2014. Retrieved September 30, 2014.
- ^ Andy Thomason (October 10, 2014). "Controversial Philosopher Will Step Down as Editor of Influential Rankings". The Chronicle of Higher Education.
- ^ Illing, Sean (February 23, 2017). "A philosopher makes the case for polyamory". Vox.
- ^ Reviews of Grounding Concepts:
- Linnebo, Øystein. zbMATH. Zbl 1165.00003.
{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link) - Murawski, Roman (2009). Mathematical Reviews. MR 2449557.
{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link) - Schechter, Joshua (2010-05-11). "Grounding Concepts: An Empirical Basis for Arithmetical Knowledge". Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews.
- Ebert, Philip (2010). "Going to ground with concepts". Metascience. 19 (2): 217–220. doi:10.1007/s11016-010-9338-y. S2CID 141945418.
- Linnebo, Øystein. zbMATH. Zbl 1165.00003.