Associate Professor Karen Green
Ph.D., (Sydney, 1983)
Email: Karen.Green@monash.edu
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
2011 Virtue Ethics for Women 1250-1550, ed. Karen Green and Constant J. Mews, (Dordrecht: Springer, 2011).
2009 with Jacqueline Broad, A History of 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).
Selected recent articles
2011 ‘Will the real Enlightenment historian please stand up? Catharine Macaulay versus David Hume,’ in Hume and the Enlightenment edited by Craig Taylor and Stephen Buckle (London: Pickering and Chatto, 2011) pp. 39-51.
2011 ‘From Le Miroir des dames to Le Livre des trois vertus,’ in Virtue Ethics for Women 1250-1550 ed. Karen Green and Constant Mews (Dordrecht: Springer, 2011) pp. 99-113.
2011 ‘Isolated individual or member of a Feminine Courtly Community? Christine de Pizan's milieu,’ in Communities of Learning: Networks and the Shaping of Intellectual Identity in Europe 1100-1500 eds. Constant Mews and John Crossley (Turnhout: Brepols, 2011), pp. 229-50.
2010 ‘The Amazons and Madeleine de Scudéry’s refashioning of female virtue,’ in Expanding the Canon of Early Modern Women ed. Paul Salzman (Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Press, 2010) pp. 150-67.
2010 ‘What Were the Ladies in the City of Ladies Reading. The Libraries of Christine de Pizan’s Contemporaries,’ Medievalia et Humanistica 36, (2010) pp. 77-100.
2010 With Nicholas Roffey, ‘Women, Hegel and Recognition in The Second Sex,’ in Hypatia 25.2 (2010) pp. 376-93.
2009 ‘Necessitating Nominalism,’ in Acta analytica 24, (2009) pp. 193-6.
2009 ‘Madeleine de Scudéry on love and the emergence of the “private sphere”,’ in History of Political Thought 30, (2009) pp. 272-85.
2008 With Nicholas Roffey, ‘Reconnaissance et le drame hégélien de la femme dans Le deuxième sexe,’ in Simone de Beauvoir à cent ans de sa naissance, ed. Thomas Stauder (Tübingen : Gunter Narr Verlag, 2008) pp. 221-33.
2007 ‘Phronesis feminized, Prudence from Christine de Pizan to Elizabeth 1,’ in Virtue, Liberty and Toleration: Political Ideas of European Women, 1400-1800, ed. Jacqueline Broad and Karen Green (Dordrecht: Springer, 2007) pp. 23-38.
2006 With Jacqueline Broad, ‘Fictions of a Feminine Philosophical Persona (or Philosophia Lost),’ in The Philosopher in Early Modern Europe: The Nature of a Contested Identity ed. Conal Condren, Stephen Gaukroger and Ian Hunter (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006) pp. 229-53.
2006 With Jacqueline Broad and Helen Prosser, ‘Emasculating Metaphor: Whither the Maleness of Reason,’ in Feminist Alliances, ed. Lynda Burns, (New York: Rodopi, 2006) pp. 103-122
2006 ‘A Pinch of Salt for Frege,’ in Synthese 150, (2006) pp. 209-228.
2006 ‘Parity and Procedural Justice,’ in Essays in Philosophy 7.
2005 ‘The Context Principle and Dummett’s Argument for Anti-Realism,’ in Theoria- A Swedish Journal of Philosophy 71 (2005) pp. 92-117.
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, 2005) pp. 117-37.