Jennifer Mcweeny

Biography

Education: BA Philosophy The Colorado College 1998 BA Biology The Colorado College 1998 MA Philosophy University of Hawai’i, Manoa Distinction 2000 MA French Literature University of Oregon 2003 GC Women's & Gender Studies University of Oregon 2003 PhD Philosophy University of Oregon 2005 Jennifer McWeeny is Associate Professor of Philosophy in the Humanities and Arts Department. Her training in philosophy is pluralistic in nature, engaging work from a variety of schools and traditions including Continental philosophy, analytic philosophy, feminist philosophy, pragmatism, and Asian and comparative philosophies. She is co-editor with Ashby Butnor of Asian and Feminist Philosophies in Dialogue: Liberating Traditions (Columbia University Press, 2014) and her articles have appeared in Continental Philosophy Review, Hypatia, Simone de Beauvoir Studies, Chiasmi International, and Journal for Critical Animal Studies, among other venues. Professor McWeeny was recently interviewed by the academic journal Hypatia about her recent article "Topographies of Flesh: Women, Nonhuman Animals, and the Embodiment of Connection and Difference." 

Research Interest

Phenomenology and Continental philosophy; Philosophy of mind; Feminist philosophy; Metaphysics; Buddhism and Indian Philosophy; Epistemology and philosophy of science