Alice DreweryDepartment of Philosophy
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Email: A.E.Drewery@reading.ac.uk
Lecturer, Department of Philosophy, University of Reading.
I came to Reading in Autumn 1998 from the University of Edinburgh, where I did my PhD, title "Generics, Laws and Context". I graduated in 1999. Previously I've taught as a part-time tutor at Edinburgh and at the Department of Philosophy, University of Stirling as well as a term lecturing logic at Somerville College, Oxford.
At Reading I teach metaphysics, epistemology, logic, philosophy of science, early modern philosophy, and the philosophy of Russell and Wittgenstein.
Home pages for courses I teach can be accessed via Blackboard (registered students only; if you think you ought to be able to access these pages and you cannot, please email me).
Research Interests: Metaphysics, Philosophy of Language, Philosophy of Science.
Current Research
My work arises from a long-standing interest in the semantics of generalisations and brings together issues in the philosophy of language and the philosophy of science. My published work focuses on the problem of ceteris paribus laws in the philosophy of science, and approaches the issue from the point of view of formal semantics where generalisations with exceptions have been studied for some time.
My work also ties in with topics in metaphysics, most obviously with issues surrounding the correct analysis of the concept of a law of nature, but also on the link between laws and dispositions, on which I have published.
Publications:
Metaphysics in Science, edited collection, Blackwell (2006).
“The Logical Form of Universal Generalizations”, Australasian Journal of Philosophy, vol. 83, no 3, pp. 373-393 (2005).
“Essentialism and the Necessity of the Laws of Nature”, Synthese, vol. 144, no.3, pp. 381-396 (2005).
“A Note on Science and Essentialism”, Theoria, vol. 51, pp. 311-320 (2004).
“Dispositions and Ceteris Paribus Laws”, British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, vol. 52, no. 4, pp. 723-733 (2001).
“Laws, Regularities and Exceptions”, Ratio, vol. XIII, no. 1, pp. 1-12 (2000).
"Representing Generics", in Proceedings of the Second ESSLLI Student Session, Ninth European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information, Aix-en-Provence, 1997.
Other interests: No, I don't spend all my time at work. I also
- play the oboe and cor anglais (a larger version of the oboe): check out the British Double Reed Society website
- attend Reading Quaker Meeting: for more information about Quakers see the Britain Yearly Meeting webpages
- keep goldfish (here is a picture but there will be better ones soon)
- watch formula one (I am a West McLaren Mercedes fan)
- enjoy my garden.
Last modified: 14th February 2012