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BiographyRebecca Kukla, a philosopher by training and by birth, now spends as much of her time studying the ethics and culture of women's health care, and collaborating with obstetricians and anthropologists, as she does on more traditional philosophical topics such as the nature of objectivity and the role of the imagination in cognition. The daughter of philosopher André Kukla and the wife of philosopher Richard Manning (also at Carleton), she is curious to see whether the philosophy bug has been passed on to her five year old son, Eli, who currently prefers painting and paleontology. However, she is pretty sure that her dogs, Tobiko Nori and Toro Temaki, have little more than bemused contempt for the philosophical life. Rebecca grew up in Toronto, except for a couple of years during which her recovering hippy parents tried their hand at roughing it in a hand-built house at the edge of a live volcanic crater in Hawaii. She will soon receive her Sommelier Certificate from Algonquin College, and in her spare time she likes to practice her wine-drinking skills, preferably to the accompaniment of her husband's spectacular cooking. She wishes that she had someone to play chess with. She has held invited visiting positions at Georgetown University, Johns Hopkins University, University of Victoria, and the United States Department of Agriculture. She is currently completing a book with Mark Lance, entitled 'Yo!' and 'Lo!': The Pragmatic Topography of the Space of Reasons, as well as working with an interdisciplinary team of scholars on the representation, communication, and use of risk data in obstetrics. Research Interests
2007-08 CoursesOn teaching leave for 2007-08. Recent PublicationsBooksMass Hysteria: Medicine, Culture and Mothers' Bodies . (Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield 2005. Link: http://rowmanlittlefield.com/Catalog/SingleBook.shtml?command=Search&db=^DB/CATALOG.db (Editor) Aesthetics and Cognition in Kant's Critical Philosophy (New York: Cambridge University Press 2006). Link: http://www.cambridge.org/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=0521862019 Recent major papers"Ethics and Ideology in Breastfeeding Advocacy Campaigns", Hypatia 21:1, 2006, 157-80. "Placing the Aesthetic in Kant's Critical Epistemology", in Aesthetics and Cognition in Kant's Critical Philosophy , ed. R. Kukla, Cambridge, 2006, 1-31. "Pregnant Bodies as Public Spaces", in The Spaces of Motherhood , ed. S. Hardy and C. Wiedmer, Palgrave MacMillan, 2006, 283-305. "The Limits of Lines: Negotiating Hard Medical Choices", American Philosophical Association Newsletter on Philosophy and Medicine 5:1, 2005, 15-19. "Conscientious Autonomy: Displacing Decisions in Health Care", Hastings Center Report 35:2, 2005, 34-44. "The Antinomies of Impure Reason: Rousseau and Kant on the Metaphysics of Truth-Telling", Inquiry 48:3, 2005, 203-31. "Attention and Blindness: Objectivity and Contingency in Moral Perception", Canadian Journal of Philosophy sup. 28 ( Feminist Moral Philosophy , ed. S. Brennan) December 2003, 319-46. With Laura Ruetsche, "Contingent Natures and Virtuous Knowers: Could Epistemology be 'Gendered'?", Canadian Journal of Philosophy 32:3, September 2002, 389-418. "The Ontology and Temporality of Conscience", Continental Philosophy Review 35, 2002, 1-34. "Talking Back: Monstrosity, Mundanity and Cynicism in Television Talk Shows", Rethinking Marxism 14:1, 2002, 67-96. "Myth, Memory and Misrecognition in Sellars' 'Empiricism and the Philosophy of Mind'", Philosophical Studies 101, 2000, 161-211. "How to Get an Interpretivist Committed", Protosociology 14, 2000, 77-117. Recent Awards/Honours
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