Catherine E. Hundleby

Associate Professor of Philosophy, University of Windsor

Feminist philosopher of argumentation and knowledge

Media

Interview about PhD in Argumentation Studies

WDET / National Public Radio Detroit, August 23, 2017Radio/Podcast

URL: https://wdet.org/posts/2017/08/23/85668-do-we-need-more-or-less-argument-university-of-windsor-says-more/

with Stephen Henderson on Detroit Today

Women no longer burning their bras — they’re just not wearing them

The Toronto Star, September 6, 2016Print

URL: https://www.thestar.com/life/2016/09/06/women-no-longer-burning-their-bras-theyre-just-not-wearing-them.html

Reporter Lauren Pelley cites Hundleby on women's body image and fashion

Safety on the roads: Is a women-only driving service the answer?

Toronto Star, June 28, 2016Print

URL: https://www.thestar.com/life/2016/06/28/safety-on-the-roads-is-a-women-only-driving-service-the-answer.html

Reporter Lauren Pelley quotes Hundleby on gender, labour, and violence against women

Reasonable Responses: The Work of Trudy Govier

Windsor Studies in Argumentation, December 15, 2016Print

URL: https://windsor.scholarsportal.info/omp/index.php/wsia/catalog/book/14

Hundleby edits this tribute to the philosophical innovations of Canadian Trudy Govier. These begin with her work in critical thinking education and argumentation theory and extend through her work on social responsibility and on truth and reconciliation programs.

Reasoning for Change

Informal Logic 30 (3), September 1, 2010Print

URL: http://ojs.uwindsor.ca/ojs/leddy/index.php/informal_logic/issue/view/359

Hundleby co-edited this special journal volume with Phyllis Rooney

Just Reason

Studies in Social Justice 4 (1), April 1, 2010Print

URL: https://brock.scholarsportal.info/journals/SSJ/issue/view/63

Hundleby co-edited this journal volume with Phyllis Rooney

Where standpoint stands now

Published by Women & Politics

September 1, 1997

18 (3) 1997, pp. 25-43. • Reprinted in Researching Gender, Editor: Christina Hughes, Sage, 2012. • Reprinted in Politics and Feminist Standpoint Theories, Ed. Sally J. Kenny, Helen Kinsella, Haworth Press, 1997.

URL: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1300/J014v18n03_03

The epistemological evaluation of oppositional secrets

Published by Hypatia

September 1, 2005

The open end: social naturalism, feminist values and the integrity of epistemology

Published by Social Epistemology

September 1, 2002

The authority of the fallacies approach to argument evaluation

Published by Informal Logic

September 1, 2010

Silence and the limitations of contextual objectivity

Published by International Feminist Journal of Politics

March 1, 2009

Critical thinking and the adversary paradigm.

Published by American Philosophical Association Newsletter on Feminism & Philosophy, 13(1).

April 30, 2017

This article addresses how the teaching of critical thinking in postsecondary education tends to make problematic assumptions about opposition between people who argue.

URL: http://c.ymcdn.com/sites/www.apaonline.org/resource/collection/D03EBDAB-82D7-4B28-B897-C050FDC1ACB4/FeminismV13n1.pdf

Aggression, politeness, and abstract adversaries

Published by Informal Logic

February 28, 2013

Biography

Catherine (Cate) Hundleby specializes in interdisciplinary philosophical study of reasoning from a feminist perspective that also attends to other forms of oppression. Hundleby's research addresses educational, scholarly, and academic knowledge and argumentation, but she also can comment on a variety of gender issues, and issues regarding social bias.

Recognition/Reconnaissance

Visiting Fellow | Professional

Michelle R. Clayman Institute for Gender Research, Stanford University

Visiting Scholar | Professional

National Endowment for the Humanities, Department of Philosophy, Pennsylvania State University

Teaching Honour Roll | Professional

Western University

Essay Award | Professional

Society for Analytical Feminism

Additional Titles and Affiliations

Fellow, Centre for Research in Reasoning Argumentation & Rhetoric, University of Windsor

Cross-appointment, Women and Gender Studies, University of Windsor

Director, Interdisciplinary PhD Program in Argumentation Studies, University of Windsor

Past Talks

A PussyHat Tale

MayWorks Windsor -- "Beyond Traditional: Women's Work" installation

Chimczuk Museum, May 10, 2017

Research Grants

Reason, Activism, and Change: Philosophical Considerations

Organization: Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada
Date: October 1, 2008
Grant amount: 14000

Details:

This conference, organized by the Canadian Society for Women in Philosophy was hosted at the University of Windsor. Two special journal issues resulted: "Reasoning for Change" in Informal Logic; and "Just Reason" in Studies in Social Justice

International Conference: Virtues of Argumentation

Organization: Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada
Date: May 1, 2013
Grant amount: 40000

Details:

This conference at the University of Windsor, hosted by the Centre for Research in Reasoning, Argumentation and Rhetoric, and sponsored by the Ontario Association for the Study of Argumentation included 120 guests from around the world and various disciplines.

Feminist Epistemologies

Organization: National Endowment for the Humanities
Date: June 15, 2003
Grant amount: $3500

Details:

This summer institute lasted five weeks at Penn State University, hosted by the Rock Ethics Institute

Expertise

  • Social Biases
  • Scientific Knowledge
  • Reasoning
  • Philosophy
  • Humanities
  • Feminism
  • Critical Thinking
  • Argumentation

Education/Éducation

  • Western University
    Philosophy
    PhD, 2001
  • University of Toronto
    Philosophy Specialist
    B.A. (Honours), 1991

    Women's Studies Minor


  • University of Guelph
    Philosophy
    M.A., 1994