Kathleen Stock
Kathleen Stock (born 1972 in Aberdeen, Scotland) is a professor of philosophy at the University of Sussex.[1] She has published on aesthetics, fiction, imagination, sexual objectification, sex/ gender, and sexual orientation. She is currently the vice-president of the British Society of Aesthetics.[2] In her monograph Only Imagine: Fiction, Interpretation and Imagination (2017), she examines the nature of fictional content.[3] She has expressed critical views on the UK Gender Recognition Act and trans self-identification.[4][5][6]
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Born | 1972 (age 47–48) Aberdeen, Scotland |
Alma mater | University of Oxford, University of St Andrews, University of Leeds |
Scientific career | |
Fields | aesthetics, fiction, imagination, sexual objectification, sex and gender, and sexual orientation |
Institutions | University of Lancaster, University of East Anglia, University of Sussex |
Website | www |
Stock has written one monograph as well as a number of articles in peer-reviewed academic journals, and has contributed several chapters to edited volumes.[7] She edited Philosophers on Music: Experience, Meaning, and Work (first edition 2007), and together with Katherine Thomson-Jones, she edited New Waves in Aesthetics (2008).
Stock has given lectures at the University of York,[8] the Aristotelian Society,[9] the London Aesthetics Forum,[10] the University of Wolverhampton,[11] the American Society for Aesthetics, and other places.
Selected works
- ed. Philosophers on Music: Experience, Meaning, and Work (Oxford University Press, 2007).
- New Waves in Aesthetics, edited with Katherine Thomson-Jones (Palgrave-Macmillan, 2008).
- Fantasy, imagination, and film. British Journal of Aesthetics, 2009. 49 (4): 357–369.
- Fictive Utterance and Imagining. Aristotelian Society Supplementary Volume. 2011, 85 (1): 145–161.
- Some Reflections on Seeing-as, Metaphor-Grasping and Imagining. Aisthesis: Pratiche, Linguaggi E Saperi Dell’Estetico. 2013, 6 (1): 201–213.
- Imagining and Fiction: Some Issues. Philosophy Compass. 2013, 8 (10): 887–896.
- Sexual Objectification. Analysis, 2015, 75 (2): 191–195.
- Learning from fiction and theories of fictional content. Teorema: International Journal of Philosophy, 2016, (3): 69–83.
References
- "Kathleen Stock : University of Sussex". www.sussex.ac.uk. Retrieved 2019-04-19.
- "About the Society – The British Society of Aesthetics". Retrieved 2019-04-19.
- Gilmore, Jonathan (2018-05-06). "Review of Only Imagine: Fiction, Interpretation, and Imagination". Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews.
- "Changing the concept of "woman" will cause unintended harms". The Economist. 2018-07-06. Retrieved 2019-04-19.
- "A conversation with Kathleen Stock on Transgender Identity". The Badger. 2018-09-15. Retrieved 2019-04-19.
- Fazackerley, Anna (2018-10-30). "UK universities struggle to deal with 'toxic' trans rights row". The Guardian. Retrieved 2019-04-20.
- "Kathleen Stock (University of Sussex) – PhilPeople". philpeople.org. Retrieved 2019-04-20.
- "Visiting Speaker: Kathleen Stock – Philosophy, The University of York". www.york.ac.uk. Retrieved 2019-04-20.
- "Kathleen Stock". The Aristotelian Society. 2018-12-08. Retrieved 2019-04-20.
- "Kathleen Stock". London Aesthetics Forum. Retrieved 2019-04-20.
- "Dr Kathleen Stock – University of Wolverhampton". www.wlv.ac.uk. Retrieved 2019-04-20.