Rebecca Kukla
Professor of Philosophy and Obstetrics and Gynecology

Ph.D. Pittsburgh 1996.  Prof. Kukla joined the USF Philosophy Department in Fall 2007.  In addition to her Ph.D. in Philosophy, Rebecca Kukla completed an honours B.A. in Philosophy at the University of Toronto in 1990, a Greenwall Postdoctoral Fellowship in Bioethics and Health Policy at Johns Hopkins University in 2005, and her Sommelier Certification at Algonquin College in 2007.  She is the author of Mass Hysteria: Medicine, Culture, and Mothers' Bodies (Rowman and Littlefield 2005), the editor of Aesthetics and Cognition in Kant's Critical Philosophy (Cambridge 2006), and, with Mark Lance, the co-author of 'Yo!' and 'Lo!': The Pragmatic Topography of the Space of Reasons (Harvard University Press 2008).  She currently holds a $100,000 research grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada for a project entitled "Autonomy and the Negotiation of Information in Reproductive Health Care".  Her research interests include philosophical and cultural studies of medicine, epistemology, eighteenth century philosophy, and feminist philosophy.  Much of her current work concerns the epistemology of risk.  

A philosopher by training and by birth, she is the daughter of philosopher André Kukla and the wife of philosopher Richard Manning (also at USF).  She is curious to see whether the philosophy bug has been passed on to her six-year-old son Eli.  She is pretty sure that her dogs, Tobiko Nori and Toro Temaki, have little more than bemused contempt for the philosophical life.

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