Professor of Philosophy
Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology
Affiliated Professor of Women's Studies
University of South Florida
Senior Research Fellow in Philosophy, Queen's University
PERSONAL:
Born November 27, 1969 in Los Angeles, CA. Canadian Permanent Resident since 1971.
EDUCATION:
Sommelier Certification, School of Hospitality and Tourism, Algonquin College, 2007
Greenwall Postdoctoral Fellowship in Bioethics and Health Policy, Johns Hopkins University, 2003-2005
Ph.D., Philosophy, University of Pittsburgh, 1996.
Dissertation: Creativity, Conformity, and the Social Constitution of the Subject. Director: John Haugeland. Committee: David Gauthier, Iris Young, Jennifer Whiting, MichaelThompson
Honours B.A. (With High Distinction), Philosophy, University of Toronto, 1990
AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION:
Bioethics and philosophical and cultural studies of medicine, epistemology, eighteenth century philosophy, feminist philosophy.
AREAS OF COMPETENCE:
Philosophy of science, twentieth century European philosophy, philosophy of mind and language, aesthetics, logic.
MAJOR GRANTS AND OTHER RESEARCH FUNDING:
2006-9 SSHRC Standard Research Grant, “Autonomy and the Negotiation of Information in Reproductive
Health Care”, $100,565.
1997 National Endowment for the Humanities summer research institute on Background Practices, UC-Santa Cruz.
1993 National Endowment for the Humanities, summer research institute on Embodiment, UC-Santa Cruz
1991 Mellon Fellowship for Summer Language Study (French, La Pocatière, Quebec)
MAJOR PROFESSIONAL HONOURS AND AWARDS:
2006-7 Marston LaFrance Research Fellow, Carleton University.
2003-5 Greenwall Fellowship in Bioethics and Health Policy, Johns Hopkins University.
2000-1 Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences Award for Teaching Excellence, Carleton University.
1990-2 (honorary fellow for 1994-5) National Mellon Fellowship in the Humanities.
PUBLICATIONS:
Books:
With Mark Lance, ‘Yo!’ and ‘Lo!’: The Pragmatic Topology of the Space of Reasons (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, forthcoming 2008).
Mass Hysteria: Medicine, Culture and Mothers’ Bodies. (Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield 2005).
Reviews: JAMA: Journal of the American Medical Association, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, APA Newsletter on Feminism and Philosophy, Choice Magazine (“highly recommended”), Hastings Center Report, Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy.
Awards: 2007 Canadian Philosophical Association Book Prize, Honourable Mention
(Editor) Aesthetics and Cognition in Kant’s Critical Philosophy (New York: Cambridge University Press 2006).
Reviews: Journal of the History of Philosophy, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews
Edited Journal Issue:
Special Issue on Maternal Bodies, Hypatia 21:1, Winter 2006.
Articles, Book Chapters, and Encyclopedia Entries:
M. Lance and R. Kukla,
“Perception, Language, and the First Person”, forthcoming in Reading Brandom, ed. B. Weiss and J.
Wanderer, Routledge 2008.
R. Kukla, M. Kuppermann,
M. Little, A. D. Lyerly, L. M. Mitchell, E. M. Armstrong, and L. H. Harris (The
Obstetrics and Gynecology Risk Research Group), “Finding Autonomy in Birth,”
forthcoming in Bioethics, 2008.
“The Critical Role of
Philosophy in Bioethics”, forthcoming in the APA Newsletter on Philosophy and Medicine, Fall 2008.
“The Phrenological Impulse and the
Morphology of Character”, forthcoming in Agency
and Embodiment, ed. Susan Sherwin, Susan Campbell, and Letitia Meynell,
Pennsylvania State University Press 2008.
D. Weiss and R. Kukla, “The
‘Natural Look’: Extreme Makeovers and the Limits of Human Self-Fashioning”,
forthcoming in Feminist Perspectives on
Cosmetic Surgery, ed. Cressida Heyes and Meredith Jones, 2008.
“Pregnancy:
Ethical Issues”, commissioned for the Stanford
Encyclopedia of Philosophy, (in progress).
“Naturalizing
Objectivity: Critical Review of Daston and Galison, Objectivity, and Barad, Meeting
the Universe Halfway”, commissioned for Perspectives
on Science (in progress).
“Resituating
the Principle of Equipoise: Justice and Access to Care in Non-Ideal
Conditions”, Kennedy Institute of Ethics
Journal 17:3, 2007, 171-202.
“Holding the Body of
Another”, in Symposium: Canadian Journal
of Continental Philosophy 11:2, 2007, 397-408.
“How do
Patients Know?”, Hastings Center Report 37:5,
2007, 27-35.
A. D.
Lyerly, L. M. Mitchell, E. M. Armstrong, L. H. Harris, R. Kukla, M. Kuppermann,
and M. Little (The Obstetrics and Gynecology Risk Research Group), “Risk,
Values, and Decision Making Surrounding Pregnancy”, Obstetrics and Gynecology 109:4, 2007, 979-984.
“Familiar Thinking: Reflections of a Mother, Philosopher, Philosopher’s Wife, and Philosopher’s Daughter”, American Philosophical Association Newsletter on Philosophy and Feminism, Fall 2007, 7-9.
“Objectivity and Perspective in Empirical Knowledge”, Episteme: A Journal of Social Philosophy 3:1, 2006, 80-95.
“Ethics and Ideology in Breastfeeding Advocacy Campaigns”, Hypatia 21:1, 2006, 157-80.
“Introduction: Special Issue on Maternal Bodies”, Hypatia 21:1, 2006, vii-ix
“Placing the Aesthetic in Kant’s Critical Epistemology”, in Aesthetics and Cognition in Kant’s Critical Philosophy, ed. R. Kukla, Cambridge, 2006, 1-31.
“Pregnant Bodies as Public Spaces”, in The Spaces of Motherhood, ed. S. Hardy and C. Wiedmer, Palgrave MacMillan, 2006, 283-305.
“Conscientious Autonomy: Displacing Decisions in Health Care”, Hastings Center Report 35:2, 2005, 34-44.
Letters and replies in Hastings Center Report 35:5, 2005.
“The Limits of Lines: Negotiating Hard Medical Choices”, American Philosophical Association Newsletter on Philosophy and Medicine 5:1, 2005, 15-19.
“The Antinomies of Impure Reason: Rousseau and Kant on the Metaphysics of Truth-Telling”, Inquiry 48:3, 2005, 203-31.
“Testing WIC: Ethical and Methodological Limits and Possibilities”, report prepared for the Economic Research Services office of the USDA, 2004.
“Attention and Blindness: Objectivity and Contingency in Moral Perception”, Canadian Journal of Philosophy sup. 28 (Feminist Moral Philosophy, ed. S. Brennan), 2003, 319-46.
With Laura Ruetsche, “Contingent Natures and Virtuous Knowers: Could Epistemology be ‘Gendered’?”, Canadian Journal of Philosophy 32:3, 2002, 389-418.
“The Ontology and Temporality of Conscience”, Continental Philosophy Review 35, 2002, 1-34.
“Talking Back: Monstrosity, Mundanity and Cynicism in Television Talk Shows”, Rethinking Marxism 14:1, 2002, 67-96.
“Myth, Memory and Misrecognition in Sellars’ ‘Empiricism and the Philosophy of Mind’”, Philosophical Studies 101, 2000, 161-211.
“How to Get an Interpretivist Committed”, Protosociology 14, 2000, 77-117.
With Sarah Hardy, “A Paramount Narrative: Exploring Space on the Starship Enterprise”, Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 57:2, 1999, 177-91.
“Performing Nature in the Letter to M. d'Alembert”, in Rousseau on Arts and Politics: Autour de la Lettre d'Alembert, ed. M. Butler, Ottawa: Pensées Libres, 1998, 67-77.
“Reading Literature After Hegel”, Journal of Speculative Philosophy 12:4, 1998, 243-54.
“Making and Masking Human Nature: Rousseau's Aesthetics of Education”, Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology 29:3, 1998, 228-51.
“Decentering Women”, Metaphilosophy 27:1-2, 1996, 28-52.
“The Coupling of Human Souls: Rousseau and the Problem of Gender Relations”, in The Nature of Political Dialogue, ed. S. Esquith, Poznan Studies in the Philosophy of Science and the Humanities vol. 46, 1996, 57-91.
REPRINTED in Feminist Rereadings of Rousseau, ed. L. Lange, Pennsylvania State University Press, 2002.
“Causation as a Natural and as a Philosophical Relation”, Eidos 10, December 1992, 161-78.
“Cognitive Models and Representation”, British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 43, June 1992, 219-32.
With André Kukla, “Meaning Holism and Intentional Psychology”, Analysis 49, 1989, 173-5.
Book Reviews:
Review of Joan Rothschild’s Dream of the Perfect Child, Hypatia, 22:3, 2007, 199-203.
Review of Slavoj Zizek’s Interrogating the Real, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews,www.ndpr.nd.edu, April 2006.
Review of Joseph Rouse’s How Scientific Practices Matter: Reclaiming Philosophical Naturalism, Philosophy of Science, 71:2, 2004, 216-219.
Review of Elizabeth Rose Wingrove’s Rousseau’s Republican Romance, Hypatia 17:2, 2002, 174-183.
Review of Michael Davis’ The Autobiography of Philosophy: Rousseau’s Reveries of the Solitary Walker, Philosophy in Review, 29:6, 2001, 398-401.
RESEARCH TEAMS:
Obstetrics
and Gynecology Risk Research Group. This is a group of scholars
dedicated to producing co-authored work on cultural and medical
representation of risk during pregnancy. The other members are: Annie
Lyerly, M.D. (Obstetrics and Gynecology, Duke Medical Center),Margaret
O. Little, Ph.D. (Philosophy, Georgetown University), Miriam Kupperman,
Ph.D.(Obstetrics and Gynecology and Epidemiology, UCSF), Lisa H.
Harris, M.D., Ph.D. (Obstetrics and Gynecology and American Studies,
University of Michigan), Elizabeth M. Armstrong,Ph.D., M.P.H.
(Sociology and Population Health, Princeton University) and Lisa M.
Mitchell,Ph.D. (Anthropology, University of Victoria).
“The
Culture of Intensive Parenting” Research Initiative. Working to set up
a trans-Atlantic, multi-site research center with Ellie Lee and Frank
Furedi at the University of Kent.
“What
Kind of People Should There Be?” Research Initiative. This is a project
on the history, culture, and ethics of enhancement and eugenics, let by
Robert Wilson of the University ofAlberta, and including roughly 20
co-applicants and collaborators from five countries.
PRESENTATIONS AND MEDIA APPEARANCES:
I have been an invited speaker at approximately 40 different universities. I have given approximately 15 keynote or invited lectures at conferences, and 50 refereed conference papers and comments. I have been a recurring guest on CBC Radio and made appearances on other radio and television stations.