AV整氈窒

 

Letitia Meynell

Professor; Cross-Appointed with Gender and Women's Studies

Letitia (2) sized

Teaching

  • Fall 2024
    PHIL 1050
    PHIL 2680

  • Winter 2025
    PHIL 3420/5420
    BIOL 3580

Office Hours

Please contact at:
letitia.meynell@dal.ca

Room 3132
Marion McCain Bldg.

 


Email: letitia.meynell@dal.ca
Phone: 902-494-3536
Mailing Address: 
Room 3132, Marion McCain Building
AV整氈窒
6135 University Avenue
PO Box 15000
Halifax, NS B3H 4R2
 
Research Topics:
  • Philosophy of Science
  • Feminist Philosophy
  • Epistemology
  • Aesthetics

Education

  • Ph.D Philosophy, University of Western Ontario;
    Thesis title: Representing, Imagining and Understanding: The Aesthetics and Epistemology of Images in Science.
  • M.A. Philosophy, University of Calgary;
    Thesis title: Picture Hooks: prelude to an Aesthetic Epistemology.
  • B.A. (Hons.), Theatre, York University

Selected Publications

  • M矇lanie Frappier, Letitia Meynell, and James Robert Brown, editors. Thought Experiments in Philosophy, Science, and the Arts. London: Routledge, 2012, 268 pages.
  • Letitia Meynell, Evolutionary Psychology, Ethology, and Essentialism (Because What They Dont Know Can Hurt Us), Hypatia 27 (1) 2012, 3-27.
  • Letitia Meynell, Pictures, Pluralism, and Feminist Epistemology: Lessons from Coming to Understand, Hypatia 23 (4) 2008, 1-29.
  • Letitia Meynell, Why Feynman Diagrams Represent, International Studies in the Philosophy of Science 22 (1) 2008, 39-59.