Dr Karen Green - Researcher Profile

Biography

Karen Green is an Associate Professor in the School of Philosophical, Historical and International Studies. Her research covers a wide range of philosophical topics including issues in ethics, philosophy of language and feminism. Her current research is mainly focussed on the history of European women's political and philosophical ideas, from the late medieval period to the enlightenment.

Research & Supervision Interests

History of women's ideas, Christine de Pizan, Madeleine de Scudery, Catharine Macaulay, Simone de Beauvoir

 

Keywords

history of women's ideas,Christine de Pizan, Catharine Macaulay, philosophy of language,

Qualifications

PHD PHILOSOPHY

Institution: University of Sydney

Year awarded: 1983

BPHIL (PHILOSOPHY)

Institution: Oxford University

Year awarded: 1977

PHILOSOPHY (HONOURS)

Institution: Monash University

Year awarded: 1973

Publications

Books

Green, K., Mews, C. (eds), 2011, Virtue Ethics for Women 1250-1500, Springer, Dordrecht, Heidelberg, London, New York.

Broad, J.S., Green, K.A.H., 2009, A History of Women's Political Thought in Europe, 1400-1700, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK.

Green, K.A.H., Mews, C.J., Pinder, J.M., 2008, The Book of Peace by Christine de Pizan, Penn State University Press, University Park PA.

Green, K.A.H. (ed), 2007, Virtue, Liberty and Toleration: Political Ideas of European Women, 1400-1800, Dordrecht, Springer, Netherlands.

Green, K., Mews, C.J. (eds), 2005, Healing the Body Politic: the Political thought of Christine de Pizan, Brepols, Turnhout, Belgium.

Green, K.A., 2001, Dummett: Philosophy of Language, Polity Press/Blackwell Publishers Ltd, Cambridge UK/Oxford UK.

Book Chapters

Green, K.A.H., 2012, When is a contract theorist not a contract theorist? Mary Astell and Catharine Macaulay as critics of Thomas Hobbes, in Feminist Interpretations of Thomas Hobbes, eds Nancy Hirschman, Joanne White, Penn State University Press, University Park, Pennsylvania, pp. 169-189.

Green, K., 2011, Australian women philosophers, in The Antipodean Philosopher Volume 1: Public Lectures on Philosophy in Australia and New Zealand, eds Graham Oppy and N. N. Trakakis, Lexington Books, Plymouth UK, pp. 67-79.

Green, K., 2011, Christine de Pizan: isolated individual or memeber of a feminine community of learning?, in Communities of Learning: Networks and the Shaping of Intellectual Identity in Europe 1100-1500, eds Constant J. Mews and John N. Crossley, Brepols, Belgium, pp. 229-250.

Green, K., 2011, From Le Miroir des dames to Le Livre des trois vertus, in Virtue Ethics for Women 1250-1500, eds Karen Green and Constant J. Mews, Springer, London, UK, pp. 99-113.

Green, K., Mews, C., 2011, Introduction, in Virtue Ethics for Women 1250-1500, eds Karen Green and Constant J. Mews, Springer Science+Business Media, Dordrecht, pp. ix-xix.

Green, K., 2011, Will the real Enlightenment historian please stand up? Catharine Macaulay versus David Hume, in Hume and the Enlightenment, eds Craig Taylor and Stephen Buckle, Pickering & Chatto, London UK, pp. 39-51.

Green, K., 2010, The Amazons and Madeleine de Scudery's refashioning of female virtue, in Expanding the Canon of Early Modern Women's Writing, eds Paul Salzmann, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom, pp. 150-167.

Green, K.A.H., Roffey, N., 2008, Reconnaisance et le drame hegelien de la femme dans Le deuxieme sexe [Recognition and Hegelian drama of Women in the Second Sex], in Simone de Beauvoir ? cent ans de sa naissance, eds Thomas Stauer, Gunter Narr Verlag, Tubingen Germany, pp. 221-233.

Green, K.A.H., Broad, J.S., 2007, Introduction, in Virtue, Liberty, and Toleration, eds Jacqueline Broad and Karen Green, Springer, Netherlands, pp. xv-xxii.

Green, K.A.H., 2007, Phronesis Feminised: Prudence from Christine De Pizan to Elizabeth I, in Virtue, Liberty and Toleration: Political Ideas of European Women 1400-1800, eds Jacqueline Broad and Karen Green, Springer, Netherlands, pp. 23-38.

Broad, J.S., Green, K.A.H., Prosser, H., 2006, Emasculating metaphor: whither the maleness of reason?, in Feminist Alliances, eds Lynda Burns, Rodopi, Amsterdam The Netherlands, pp. 91-108.

Green, K.A.H., Broad, J.S., 2006, Fictions of a feminine philosophical persona: Christine de Pizan, Margaret Cavendish and philosophia lost, in The Philosopher in Early Modern Europe, eds Conal Condren, Stephen Gaukroger, Ian Hunter, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge UK, pp. 229-253.

Green, K., 2005, Introduction, in Healing the Body Politic: the Political Thought of Christine de Pizan, eds Karen Green and Constant J Mews, Brepols, Turnhout, pp. xi-xxi.

Green, K., 2005, On Translating Christine de Pizan as a Philosopher, in Healing The Body Politic: the Political Thought of Christine de Pizan, eds Karen Green and Constant J Mews, Brepols, Turnhout, pp. 117-137.

Green, K., 1999, Sartre and de Beauvoir on "Freedom and oppression, in Feminist Interpretations of Jean-Paul Sartre, The Pennsylvania State University Press, Pennsylvania USA, pp. 175-199.

Journal Articles

Green, K.A.H., 2012, Catharine Macaulay, The Stanford Enyclopedia of Philosophy [P], vol E, Center for the Study of Language and Information, Stanford University, http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/catharine-macaulay/, p. 1.

Green, K.A.H., Weekes, S., 2012, Catharine Macaulay on the will, History of European Ideas [E], vol E, Taylor & Francis Group, http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/01916599.2012.703456, pp. 1-17.

Green, K.A.H., 2012, Liberty and virtue in Catherine Macaulay's enlightenment philosophy, Intellectual History Review [P], vol 22, issue 3, Routledge, UK, pp. 411-426.

Green, K., 2010, What were the ladies in the City of Ladies reading? The libraries of Christine de Pizan's contemporaries, Medievalia et Humanistica: studies in medieval and renaissance culture [P], vol 36, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers Inc., US, pp. 77-100.

Green, K., Roffey, N., 2010, Women, Hegel, and recognition in 'the second sex', Hypatia [P], vol 25, issue 2, Wiley-Blackwell, United States, pp. 376-393.

Green, K.A.H., 2009, Madeleine de Scudery on love and the emergence of the 'private sphere', History of Political Thought [P], vol 30, issue 2, Imprint Academic, Exeter, UK, pp. 272-285.

Green, K.A.H., 2009, Necessitating nominalism, Acta Analytica [P], vol 24, Springer, Netherlands, pp. 193-196.

Green, K.A.H., 2007, Could Christine de Pizan be the author of the Advis Isabelle de Bavire , BNF MS fr. 1223?, Cahiers de recherches medievales, vol 14, issue -, Honore Champion, Paris, pp. 211-229.

Green, K.A.H., 2006, A pinch of salt for Frege, Synthese, vol 150, issue 2, Springer, The Netherlands, pp. 209-228.

Green, K.A.H., 2006, Isabeau de Baviere and the political philosophy of Christine de Pizan, Historical Reflections, vol 32, issue 2, Alfred University, Division of Human Studies, USA, pp. 247-272.

Green, K.A.H., 2006, Parity and procedural justice, Essays in Philosophy, vol 7, issue 1, Department of Philosophy, Humboldt State University, USA, pp. 1-11.

Green, K.H., 2005, Philosophy and metaphor: the significance of Christine's 'blunders', Parergon, vol 22, issue 1, Uniprint, Perth WA Australia, pp. 119-136.

Green, K., 2005, The context principle and Dummett's argument for anti-realism, Theoria, vol 71, issue 2, Thales, Sweden, pp. 92-117.

Green, K., 2003, Distance, divided responsibility and universalizability, The Monist, vol 86, issue 3, The Hegeler Institute, Illinois USA, pp. 501-515.

Green, K., 2002, The other as another other, Hypatia, vol 17, issue 4, Indiana University Press, Bloomington USA, pp. 1-15.

Green, K., 2001, Davidson's derangement: of the conceptual priority of language, dialectica, vol 55, issue 3, Soc Dialectica, Bern Switzerland, pp. 239-258.

Green, K., 2000, Analysing Analytic Philosophy: The rise of Analytic Philosophy, Philosophia, vol 28 issue 4, Bar-lian University, Jerusalem Israel, pp. 1-19.

Green, K., 2000, De Sade, de Beauvoir and Dworkin, Australian Feminist Studies, vol 15 issue 31, Carfax Publishing, Harts UK, pp. 69-80.

Green, K., 1999, A Plague on Both Your Houses, The Monist, vol 82, The Hegeler Institute, La Salle Illinois USA, pp. 278-303.

Green, K., 1999, Review of Engaging with Irigaray ed. Carolyn Burke, Naomi Shor and Margaret Whitford, International Studies in Philosophy, vol -, Binghampton, Binghampton New York NY USA, pp. 118-120.

Green, K., 1999, Was Wittgenstein Frege's Heir?, The Philosophical Quarterly, vol 49, Blackwell Publishers, Oxford UK, pp. 289-308.

Bigelow, J.C., Green, K., 1998, Does Science persecute women? The case of the 16th-17th Century Witch-hunts, Philosophy, vol 73 no 284, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge UK, pp. 195-217.

Green, K., 1998, Was Searle's Descriptive Refuted?, Teorema, vol 17, issue 1, Riyorma Pol. Ind. Alparrache Navalcarnero, Madrid Spain, pp. 109-113.

Green, K., 1997, For Wollstonecraft, Hypatia, vol 12, Indiana University Press, Bloomington Indiana USA, pp. ix-x.

Green, K., 1997, The passions and the imagination in Wollstonecraft's theory of moral judgement, Utilitas, vol 9, Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh Scotland, pp. 271-290.

Other

Green, K.A.H., 2012, Nadia Margolis, an introduction to Christine de Pizan, Speculum, vol 87, issue 4, Cambridge University Press, UK, pp. 70-71.

Green, K., 2011, Madeline de Scudery (1607 - 1691), The Literary Encyclopedia, vol encyclopedia, The Literary Dictionary Company Limited, http://www.litencyc.com/index.php, pp. 1-6.

Green, K., 2010, Pateman, Carole, A companion to philosophy in Australia and New Zealand, vol other, Monash University Publishing, Melbourne, Australia, pp. 349-351.

Green, K., 2002, Simone de Beauvoir and French Feminism, Edinburgh Companion to Literary Criticism and Theory, Edinburgh University of Edinburgh Press, Edinburgh, pp. 226-234.

Grants

Title:

A History of Women s Political Thought in Europe 1700-1800.

Investigators:

Green, K

Funding:

(2009 - 2013). Australian Research Council (ARC).

Title:

Medieval Virtue Ethics and the Formation of the Feminine Moral Subject: Jeanne of Navarre to Marguerite of Navarre (1285-1550).

Investigators:

Mews, C, Green, K, Pinder, J

Funding:

(2007 - 2011). Australian Research Council (ARC).

(2008 - 2012). Australian Research Council (ARC).

Title:

Peace, Politics and Love: Christine de Pizan and the political thought of medieval women.

Investigators:

Green, K, Mews, C

Funding:

(2002 - 2006). Australian Research Council (ARC).

(2002 - 2010). Australian Research Council (ARC).

Title:

The Political Thought of European Women: 1400-1800.

Investigators:

Green, K, Broad, J

Funding:

(2004 - 2008). Australian Research Council (ARC).

Postgraduate Research Supervisions

Current Supervision

Program of Study:

(MASTER'S BY RESEARCH).

Thesis Title:

Infinity and Love in the Philosophy of Emannuel Levinas.

Supervisors:

Green, K (Main), Ross, A (Associate).

Program of Study:

(MASTER'S BY RESEARCH).

Thesis Title:

Jean-Paul Satre, existentialism and aetheism..

Supervisors:

Green, K (Main), Baltzly, D (Associate).

Program of Study:

(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).

Thesis Title:

The philosophical works of Catherine Trotter Cockburn.

Supervisors:

Green, K (Main), Broad, J (Associate).

Completed Supervision

Student:

Aynsley, G.

Program of Study:

Bridging Kant's abyss: developing the imagination in moral judgement. (PHD) 2010.

Supervisors:

Oakley, J (Main), Green, K (Associate).

Student:

Broad, J.

Program of Study:

THE IMPERTINENCIES OF A WOMAN'S PEN: A STUDY OF THE METAPHYSICAL VIEWS OF FOUR EARLY MODERN WOMEN PHILOSOPHERS. (PHD) 2000.

Supervisors:

Green, K (Main).

Student:

Eliopoulos, N.

Program of Study:

Civic friendship in Plato's Republic: what is it and how is it produced?. (PHD) 2008.

Supervisors:

Baltzly, D (Main), Green, K (Associate).

Student:

English, M.

Program of Study:

LOUIS ROUGIER: A PERSPECTIVE ON HIS THOUGHT. (PHD) 2003.

Supervisors:

Green, K (Main).

Student:

Lahav, R.

Program of Study:

Collaboration and coercion: Marguerite Porete, mendicants and devout women in northern France in the late thirteenth century. (PHD) 2011.

Supervisors:

Mews, C (Main), Green, K (Associate).

Student:

Mcgann, M.

Program of Study:

Just diversity: liberalism and the limits of multiculturalism. (PHD) 2008.

Supervisors:

Green, K (Main), Sparrow, R (Associate).

Student:

Ngari, I.

Program of Study:

A Limited Relation but not a Total Separation: The Relation between the State and Religion in a Pluralist Democratic State, Particularly in Indonesia. (Masters) 2008.

Supervisors:

Green, K (Main), Handfield, T (Associate).

Student:

Pinchin, A.

Program of Study:

Judicious agent theory. (PHD) 2012.

Supervisors:

Green, K (Main), Handfield, T (Associate).

Student:

Prosser, H.

Program of Study:

METAPHOR AND THEORIES OF MEANING. (PHD) 2000.

Supervisors:

Green, K (Main).

Student:

Rowe, D.

Program of Study:

Truthmaker Theory and Negative Truths. (Masters) 2009.

Supervisors:

Green, K (Main), Bigelow, J (Associate).

Student:

Thompson, L.

Program of Study:

Analyticity, holism and empiricism: can Quine's criticisms of Carnap be answered?. (PHD) 2008.

Supervisors:

Green, K (Main), Humberstone, I (Associate).

Student:

Vaiyavur Raghupathi, V.

Program of Study:

Conservation of Nature: A Perspective from the Bhagavadgita. (Masters) 2007.

Supervisors:

Green, K (Main), Chadha, M (Associate).

Student:

Van Ryn, J.

Program of Study:

BECOMING EUDAIMON: PLATO AND ARISTOTLE ON HAPPINESS AND HUMAN NATURE. (PHD) 2002.

Supervisors:

Baltzly, D (Main), Green, K (Associate).

Student:

Weekes, S.

Program of Study:

Catharine Macaulay's metaphysics of morals: From metaphysics to philosophy of education. (Masters) 2008.

Supervisors:

Green, K (Main), Baltzly, D (Associate).