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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