Women in Philosophy: Publishing, Jobs, & Fitting In

SWIP-Analytic’s session, “Women in Philosophy: Publishing, Jobs, & Fitting In” will be a roundtable featuring Elise Crull (City College, CUNY), Una Stojnic (NYU), and Denise Vigani (Drew University). They will discuss work habits, publishing, and job searches, among other things.

Elise Crull is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy, City College, CUNY. She received a B.Sc in Physics from Calvin College, and holds an M.A. in Philosophy and Ph.D. in History and Philosophy of Science from the University of Notre Dame. Among her primary interests is the historical and philosophical foundations of quantum mechanics (cf. her book, The ‘Einstein Paradox’: Debates on Nonlocality and Incompleteness in 1935, Cambridge University Press 2017, and an edited volume, Grete Hermann: Between Physics and Philosophy, Springer 2017 – both with G. Bacciagaluppi). She has also published on the metaphysics of quantum decoherence and on interpretational issues within quantum gravity and relativistic cosmology, and enjoys puzzling over more general topics at the intersection of physics and ontology.

Una Stojnic is a Bersoff Assistant Professor/ Faculty Fellow in Philosophy at NYU and a Research Fellow in Philosophy at the School of Philosophy at ANU. In fall 2017, she will join the Department of Philosophy at Columbia University as an Assistant Professor of Philosophy. She earned her PhD in Philosophy and a Certificate in Cognitive Science from Rutgers University in 2016. She mainly works in philosophy of language, formal semantics and pragmatics of natural languages, and philosophical logic. Her research aims at understanding and modeling language and linguistic communication. This situates her work within a network of traditional questions in philosophy of language, as well as within a set of empirical questions in linguistics and cognitive sciences.

Denise Vigani is currently an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Drew University.  She recently earned her Ph.D. in Philosophy and Certificate in Women’s Studies from The Graduate Center, City University of New York.  Her primary areas of research are virtue ethics and moral psychology.  Her current research agenda is to offer an empirically plausible moral psychology of neo-Aristotelian virtue.  While virtue may be an ideal that is hard to cultivate and perhaps rarely fully attained, she contends that it is very much a human ideal.  It does not, as some have alleged, require us to become super-human or to cultivate traits that are beyond our psychological capabilities.

Everyone (men & women, philosophers & non-philosophers) is welcome at our public events.