Kathleen Stock

Kathleen Stock (born 1972 in Aberdeen, Scotland) is a professor of philosophy at the University of Sussex.[1] She has published on aesthetics, fiction, imagination, sexual objectification, sex/ gender, and sexual orientation. She is currently the vice-president of the British Society of Aesthetics.[2] In her monograph Only Imagine: Fiction, Interpretation and Imagination (2017), she examines the nature of fictional content.[3] She has expressed critical views on the UK Gender Recognition Act and trans self-identification.[4][5][6]

Kathleen Stock
Born1972 (age 47–48)
Aberdeen, Scotland
Alma materUniversity of Oxford, University of St Andrews, University of Leeds
Scientific career
Fieldsaesthetics, fiction, imagination, sexual objectification, sex and gender, and sexual orientation
InstitutionsUniversity of Lancaster, University of East Anglia, University of Sussex
Websitewww.sussex.ac.uk/profiles/127266, kathleenstock.com

Stock has written one monograph as well as a number of articles in peer-reviewed academic journals, and has contributed several chapters to edited volumes.[7] She edited Philosophers on Music: Experience, Meaning, and Work (first edition 2007), and together with Katherine Thomson-Jones, she edited New Waves in Aesthetics (2008).

Stock has given lectures at University of York,[8] the Aristotelian Society,[9] the London Aesthetics Forum,[10] the University of Wolverhampton,[11] the American Society for Aesthetics, and other places.

Selected works
  • ed. Philosophers on Music: Experience, Meaning, and Work (Oxford University Press, 2007).
  • New Waves in Aesthetics, edited with Katherine Thomson-Jones (Palgrave-Macmillan, 2008).
  • Fantasy, imagination, and film. British Journal of Aesthetics, 2009. 49 (4): 357–369.
  • Fictive Utterance and Imagining. Aristotelian Society Supplementary Volume. 2011, 85 (1): 145–161.
  • Some Reflections on Seeing-as, Metaphor-Grasping and Imagining. Aisthesis: Pratiche, Linguaggi E Saperi Dell’Estetico. 2013, 6 (1): 201–213.
  • Imagining and Fiction: Some Issues. Philosophy Compass. 2013, 8 (10): 887–896.
  • Sexual Objectification. Analysis, 2015, 75 (2): 191–195.
  • Learning from fiction and theories of fictional content. Teorema: International Journal of Philosophy, 2016, (3): 69–83.

References
  1. "Kathleen Stock : University of Sussex". www.sussex.ac.uk. Retrieved 2019-04-19.
  2. "About the Society – The British Society of Aesthetics". Retrieved 2019-04-19.
  3. Gilmore, Jonathan (2018-05-06). "Review of Only Imagine: Fiction, Interpretation, and Imagination". Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews.
  4. "Changing the concept of "woman" will cause unintended harms". The Economist. 2018-07-06. Retrieved 2019-04-19.
  5. "A conversation with Kathleen Stock on Transgender Identity". The Badger. 2018-09-15. Retrieved 2019-04-19.
  6. Fazackerley, Anna (2018-10-30). "UK universities struggle to deal with 'toxic' trans rights row". The Guardian. Retrieved 2019-04-20.
  7. "Kathleen Stock (University of Sussex) – PhilPeople". philpeople.org. Retrieved 2019-04-20.
  8. "Visiting Speaker: Kathleen Stock – Philosophy, The University of York". www.york.ac.uk. Retrieved 2019-04-20.
  9. "Kathleen Stock". The Aristotelian Society. 2018-12-08. Retrieved 2019-04-20.
  10. "Kathleen Stock". London Aesthetics Forum. Retrieved 2019-04-20.
  11. "Dr Kathleen Stock – University of Wolverhampton". www.wlv.ac.uk. Retrieved 2019-04-20.
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