Biography:Katherine Brading
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| Born | 1970 |
| Occupation | Philosopher of science, historian of science |
| Known for | Work on symmetry in physics, Noether’s theorem, Émilie du Châtelet |
| Title | Professor of Philosophy |
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| Thesis | Symmetries, conservation laws, and Noether's variational problem (2001) |
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Katherine Astrid Brading (born 1970)[1] is a philosopher of science and historian of science whose works have concerned theoretical physics, symmetry, and Émilie du Châtelet. Educated in England, she works in the US as a professor of philosophy at Duke University.
Education
Brading earned a bachelor's degree in physics and philosophy from King's College London in 1992.[2] She completed her doctorate (D.Phil.) at St Hugh's College, Oxford in 2001, with the dissertation Symmetries, conservation laws, and Noether's variational problem.[1]
In 2017 she moved from a position as professor of philosophy at the University of Notre Dame to her present position at Duke University.[3] Since 2022 she has chaired the Department of Philosophy at Duke.[4]
Books
Brading is the author of Émilie Du Châtelet and the Foundations of Physical Science (Routledge, 2019).[5] With Elena Castellani, she is co-editor of Symmetries in Physics: Philosophical Reflections (Cambridge University Press, 2003).[6][7][8] She is the coauthor of Philosophical Mechanics in the Age of Reason (with Marius Stan, Oxford University Press, 2023).[9]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Brading, Katherine, 1970–, Library of Congress, https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2003003666.html, retrieved 2024-10-19
- ↑ Katherine Brading: Unity, Change, and What There Is, Rotman Institute of Philosophy, University of Western Ontario, November 4, 2011, https://www.rotman.uwo.ca/event/katherine-brading-unity-change/, retrieved 2024-10-19
- ↑ Weinberg, Justin (October 27, 2016), "Brading from Notre Dame to Duke", Daily Nous, https://dailynous.com/2016/10/27/brading-notre-dame-duke/, retrieved 2024-10-19
- ↑ "Katherine A. Brading", Scholars@Duke, https://scholars.duke.edu/person/katherine.brading, retrieved 2024-10-19
- ↑ "Review of Emilie du Chatelet and the Foundations of Physical Science", Annual Bulletin of the Japanese Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies 36: 129–131, June 2021, https://cir.nii.ac.jp/crid/1520574655203195008
- ↑ Sambles, Professor J.R. (March 2011), "Review of Symmetries in Physics", Contemporary Physics 52 (2): 166–168, doi:10.1080/00107514.2010.537777
- ↑ Cat, Jordi (October 2006), "Essay Review: Symmetries in Physics", Philosophy of Science 73 (4): 459–468, doi:10.1086/516808
- ↑ Wüthrich, Christian (September 2005), "Book review: Symmetries in Physics", Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part B: Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics 36 (3): 576–582, doi:10.1016/j.shpsb.2005.05.002
- ↑ Tho, Tzuchien (2023), "Review of Philosophical Mechanics in the Age of Reason", The Leibniz Review (Philosophy Documentation Center) 33: 85–95, doi:10.5840/leibniz2023337
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