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Katherine Brading
Philosopher and historian of science From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Katherine Astrid Brading (born 1970)[1] 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.
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Education
Brading earned a bachelor's degree in physics and philosophy from King's College London in 1992.[2] 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.[1]
In 2017 she moved from a position as professor of philosophy at the University of Notre Dame to her present position at Duke University.[3] Since 2022 she has chaired the Department of Philosophy at Duke.[4]
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Books
Brading is the author of Émilie Du Châtelet and the Foundations of Physical Science (Routledge, 2019).[5] With Elena Castellani, she is co-editor of Symmetries in Physics: Philosophical Reflections (Cambridge University Press, 2003).[6][7][8] She is the coauthor of Philosophical Mechanics in the Age of Reason (with Marius Stan, Oxford University Press, 2023).[9]
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