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Letitia MeynellLetitia Meynell is a Canadian philosopher who is a Professor of Philosophy at Dalhousie University. Her work concerns philosophy of science, epistemology, feminist philosophy, and human/animal relationships. CareerMeynell read a BA (Hons) in Theatre at York University (1989-93), and then a MA in Philosophy at the University of Calgary (1995-8).[1][2] She submitted her thesis, Picture hooks: prelude to an aesthetic epistemololgy (which was supervised by Brian Grant), in January 1998.[3] She went on to read for a PhD in Philosophy at the University of Western Ontario.[1] Her thesis, Representing, imagining and understanding: The aesthetics and epistemology of images in science, was supervised by Kathleen Okruhlik; the other committee members were Patrick Maynard and Wayne Myrvold. Kendall Walton was the external examiner.[2] After completing her PhD and working as an instructor at Western Ontario, Meynell took on a limited-term assistant professorship at Dalhousie University's Department of Philosophy, with a cross appointment in the Gender and Women's Studies Programme. She took on a tenure track assistant professorship at Dalhousie in 2008.[2] Shortly afterwards, Meynell's first book, Embodiment and Agency, was published by Penn State University Press. This collection was co-edited with Sue Campbell and Susan Sherwin.[4] Meynell was subsequently promoted to associate professor[5] and full professor.[1] Her second book, Thought Experiments in Science, Philosophy and the Arts, was co-edited with Melanie Frappier and James Robert Brown and published by Routledge in 2012.[6] Her third was Chimpanzee Rights: The Philosophers' Brief, which was co-authored with Kristin Andrews, Gary Comstock, G. K. D. Crozier, Sue Donaldson, Andrew Fenton, Tyler M. John, L. Syd M. Johnson, Robert Jones, Will Kymlicka, Nathan Nobis, David Peña-Guzmán, and Jeff Sebo.[7] Selected publications
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