Assoc. Prof. Karen Green
Ph.D., (Sydney, 1983)
Email: Karen.Green@arts.monash.edu.au
Phone: +61 3 9905 3225
Room: W908, Menzies, Clayton.
Qualifications
- PhD., Sydney, (1983).
- B.Phil., Oxford, (1977).
- B.A. (Hons) Monash, (1973).
Academic Background
Studied at Monash University from 1969-1973 and took out BA . (Hons) in 1973. The title of my honours thesis was; The Relation of Truth to Meaning.
From 1975 I read for the BPhil., at Oxford and in 1977 was awarded the BPhil. my thesis was Truth and Substitutional Quantification .
I returned to Australia to work on my Ph.D..in 1978, at the University of Sydney. My Ph.D was awarded in 1983 and called, Sense and Psychologism: Frege to Dummett.
Research Interests
History of Women's Ideas from Christine de Pizan to the French Revolution.
Philosophy of Language; in particular Dummett and Frege.
Environmental Ethics.
Continental Philosophy; in particular Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir.
Publications
Books
2009 with Jacqueline Broad, Women’s Political Thought in Europe 1400-1700, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press).
2007 Virtue, Liberty and Toleration: Political Ideas of European Women, 1400-1800, ed. Jacqueline Broad and Karen Green (Dordrecht: Springer).
2005 Healing the Body Politic: the political thought of Christine de Pizan, ed. Karen Green and Constant J. Mews (Turnhout: Brepols).
2001 Dummett: Philosophy of Language, (Cambridge: Polity Press) Key Contemporary Thinkers Series. Reprinted 2002.
1995 The Woman of Reason: Feminism, Humanism and Political Thought, Polity Press, Cambridge (New York : Continuum).
Translated Book:
2008 The Book of Peace, by Christine de Pizan, translated and edited by Karen Green, Constant J. Mews and Janice Pinder, (University Park: Penn State Press).
Contributions to Edited Books:
2005 With John Bigelow, "Does Science Persecute Women; the case of the 16th-17th Century Witch-hunts,' to be reprinted in Science and Philosophy ed. Jeffrey Foss (Petersborough, Ontario: Broadview Press) forthcoming.
2005 "On Translating Christine de Pizan as a Philosopher' in Healing the Body Politic: the political thought of Christine de Pizan, ed. Karen Green and Constant J. Mews (Turnhout: Brepols) pp. 117-37.
2005 "Introduction' Healing the Body Politic: the political thought of Christine de Pizan, ed. Karen Green and Constant J. Mews (Turnhout: Brepols), pp. ix-xxi.
2005 With Jacqui Broad and Helen Prosser, "Emasculating Metaphor: Whither the Maleness of Reason' in Feminist Alliances, ed. Lynda Burns, (New York: Rodopi) pp. 103-122
2004 "Prostitution, Exploitation and Taboo' reprinted in What's Wrong? Applied Ethicists and their Critics ed. David Boonin and Graham Oddie (New York: Oxford University Press)
2002 "Brain Writing and Derrida,' reprinted in Jacques Derrida ed. Christopher Norris & David Roden, (London: Sage Publications Ltd) Vol 2.
2002 "Rawls, Women and the Priority of Liberty' reprinted in John Rawls: Critical Assessments of Leading Political Philosophers, ed. Chandran Kukathas, (London/New York: Routledge) vol. 3, part 3.
2002 "Simone de Beauvoir and French Feminism' in Edinburgh Companion to Literary Criticism and Theory 1945-2000 ed. Julian Wolfreys, (Edinburgh: University of Edinburgh Press) pp. 226-34.
2002 "Was Wittgenstein Frege's Heir?' reprinted in Ludwig Wittgenstein: Critical Assessments, ed. Stuart Shanker and David Kilfoyle (London, Routledge, 2002) vol.1, pp. 60-79.
1999 "Sartre and de Beauvoir on Freedom and Oppression' in Feminist Interpretations of Sartre, ed. Julien Murphy (University Park, Penn: Pennsylvania University Press) pp. 175-99.
1996 "Christine de Pisan and Thomas Hobbes' reprinted in Hypatia's Daughters: 1500 Years of Women Philosophers, ed. Linda Lopez McAlister,(Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press) pp. 48-67.
Encyclopedia Entries:
"Genevieve Lloyd' forthcoming in The Encyclopedia of Philosophy 2nd Edition, ed. David Borchert (Macmillan)
"Realism and Anti-Realism' forthcoming in Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics 2nd Edition, ed. Keith Brown (Elsevier)
"Jean-Paul Sartre: Philosopher, Author' forthcoming in The New Encyclopedia of Unbelief ed. Tom Flynn (Amherst, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, forthcoming 2006)
"Simone de Beauvoir: Feminist Philosopher, Author' forthcoming in The New Encyclopedia of Unbelief ed. Tom Flynn (Amherst, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, forthcoming 2006)
Refereed Journal Articles:
2006/7 "Isabeau de Bavière and the Political Philosophy of Christine de Pizan' accepted by Historical Reflections/Reflexions Historiques
2006 "A Pinch of Salt for Frege,' accepted by Synthese forthcoming
2006 "Parity and Procedural Justice,' forthcoming in Essays in Philosophy 7.
2005 "The Context Principle and Dummett's Argument for Anti-Realism,' accepted by Theoria- A Swedish Journal of Philosophy forthcoming.
2005 "Philosophy and Metaphor: the Significance of Christine's 'blunders''Parergon 22:1.
2003 "Distance, Divided Responsibility and Universalizability,'Monist 86:3, pp. 503-17.
2002 "The Other as Another Other,' Hypatia 17, pp. 1-15.
2001 "Davidson's Derangement: Of the Conceptual Priority of Language,'Dialectica 55, pp. 239-58.
2001 "Analysing Analysis,' Critical Study of Hans-Johann Glock The Rise of Analytic Philosophy, Philosophia 28, pp. 511-29.
2000 "De Sade, De Beauvoir and Dworkin,' Australian Feminist Studies 15, pp. 69-80.
1999 "Was Wittgestein Frege's Heir?' Philosophical Quarterly49; pp. 289-308.
1999 "A Plague on Both Your Houses,' Monist 82, "Continental Philosophy: For and Against'; pp. 278-303.
1998 co-authored with John Bigelow "Does Science Persecute Women; the case of the 16th-17th Century Witch-hunts,' Philosophy 73, pp. 195-217. Abstract published in Volume of Abstracts 10th International Congress of Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science, Comune di Cesena, Florence, 1995, p. 379.
1998 "Was Searle's Descriptivism Refuted?' Teorema 17, pp. 109-13.
1997 "The Passions and the Imagination in Wollstonecraft's Theory of Moral Judgement,' Utilitas 9, pp. 271-90.
1996 "Rousseau's Women,' International Journal of Philosophical Studies 4, pp. 87-109.
1996 "Two Distinctions in Environmental Goodness,' Environmental Values 5, pp. 31-46.
Work in Progress
Currently working towards writing A History of the Political Thought of European Women 1400-1800 with Jacqueline Broad.