Katherine Brading

Katherine Brading
Born1970 (age 55–56)
OccupationsPhilosopher of science, historian of science
Known forWork on symmetry in physics, Noether’s theorem, Émilie du Châtelet
TitleProfessor of Philosophy
Academic background
Education
ThesisSymmetries, conservation laws, and Noether's variational problem (2001)
Academic work
Institutions
Notable works
  • Émilie Du Châtelet and the Foundations of Physical Science (2019)
  • Symmetries in Physics: Philosophical Reflections (2003, co-editor)
  • Philosophical Mechanics in the Age of Reason (2023, coauthor)

Katherine Astrid Brading (born 1970) 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. 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.

In 2017 she moved from a position as professor of philosophy at the University of Notre Dame to her present position at Duke University. Since 2022 she has chaired the Department of Philosophy at Duke.

Books

Brading is the author of Émilie Du Châtelet and the Foundations of Physical Science (Routledge, 2019). With Elena Castellani, she is co-editor of Symmetries in Physics: Philosophical Reflections (Cambridge University Press, 2003). She is the coauthor of Philosophical Mechanics in the Age of Reason (with Marius Stan, Oxford University Press, 2023).

References

  1. 1 2 Brading, Katherine, 1970–, Library of Congress, retrieved 2024-10-19
  2. ↑ Katherine Brading: Unity, Change, and What There Is, Rotman Institute of Philosophy, University of Western Ontario, 4 November 2011, retrieved 2024-10-19
  3. ↑ Weinberg, Justin (27 October 2016), "Brading from Notre Dame to Duke", Daily Nous, retrieved 2024-10-19
  4. ↑ "Katherine A. Brading", Scholars@Duke, retrieved 2024-10-19
  5. ↑ Kawashima, Keiko (June 2021), "Review of Emilie du Chatelet and the Foundations of Physical Science", Annual Bulletin of the Japanese Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, 36: 129–131
  6. ↑ Sambles, Professor J.R. (March 2011), "Review of Symmetries in Physics", Contemporary Physics, 52 (2): 166–168, doi:10.1080/00107514.2010.537777
  7. ↑ Cat, Jordi (October 2006), "Essay Review: Symmetries in Physics", Philosophy of Science, 73 (4): 459–468, doi:10.1086/516808
  8. ↑ 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
  9. ↑ Tho, Tzuchien (2023), "Review of Philosophical Mechanics in the Age of Reason", The Leibniz Review, 33, Philosophy Documentation Center: 85–95, doi:10.5840/leibniz2023337