About
Kathryn Lawson.
Kate’s book Decreation for the Anthropocene is forthcoming with Routledge’s Environmental Humanities series. The book examines the philosophy of Simone Weil alongside the ecological ethics of the Anthropocene. Kate is currently working as a lecturer at Carleton University in the department of philosophy. She received her PhD from Queen’s University in Kingston, ON, where she worked as a lecturer and teaching assistant in the department of philosophy. She was a visiting graduate student at Cambridge University's Faculty of Divinity during the Lent 2020 term and in 2017 Kate received a Master's degree from the Centre for the Study of Theory and Criticism at Western University . She attended The School of Criticism and Theory Summer School at Cornell University in 2016 and Tilburg University’s Philosophy Summer School in 2014.
As a lecturer, Kate seeks to bring together rigorous scholarship in the history of philosophy, exploration of burgeoning thinkers, and passionate engagement with how philosophical ideas are relevant to student’s lives.
Kate’s research interests include social and political thought, continental philosophy, aesthetics, philosophy of religion, phenomenology, Indian philosophy, existentialism, and ecological ethics.
“Every human being has at his roots here below a certain terrestrial poetry.”
— Simone Weil