Carrie Ichikawa Jenkins

Summary

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
Alma materTrinity College, Cambridge
EraContemporary philosophy
RegionWestern philosophy
SchoolAnalytic
InstitutionsUniversity 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 edit

Jenkins 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]

Selected publications edit

  • Grounding Concepts: An Empirical Basis for Arithmetical Knowledge (OUP, 2008, ISBN 978-0-19-923157-7)[9]
  • '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

References edit

  1. ^ a b "Canada Research Chair – Profile". chairs-chaires.gc.ca. 2012-11-29.
  2. ^ "Carrie Jenkins – Department of Philosophy". ubc.ca.
  3. ^ Northern Institute of Philosophy Archived March 26, 2014, at the Wayback Machine
  4. ^ 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)
  5. ^ "Thought: A Journal of Philosophy". Wiley. doi:10.1002/(ISSN)2161-2234.
  6. ^ "The 21st Century Monads". the21stcenturymonads.net.
  7. ^ 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.
  8. ^ Andy Thomason (October 10, 2014). "Controversial Philosopher Will Step Down as Editor of Influential Rankings". The Chronicle of Higher Education.
  9. ^ 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.

External links edit

  • The Metaphysics of Love Project
  • Interviewed at Aesthetics for Birds
  • Interviewed for Philosophers on Film
  • Interviewed for What Is It Like to Be a Philosopher?