Kathryn Lawson

Kate’s book Decreation for the Anthropocene was published with Routledge’s Environmental Ethics series (2024). The book examines the philosophy of Simone Weil alongside the ecological ethics of the Anthropocene. Additionally, she acted as co-editor and contributor to a collection on the political philosophy of Weil and Hannah Arendt with Bloomsbury (2024). She has also published a number of chapters and peer reviewed articles on thinkers including Weil, Arendt, Jean Luc Marion, Edith Stein, Richard Kearney, and Hans-Georg Gadamer.

Kate is currently working as a Faculty Fellow at King’s University College in Halifax in the first year program, department of humanities. She received her PhD from Queen’s University in Kingston, ON, where she worked as a lecturer and teaching assistant in the department of philosophy. She has worked as a lecturer at Carleton University, and Heritage CEGEP college.

She was a visiting graduate student at Cambridge University's Faculty of Divinity during the Lent 2020 term and in 2017 Kate received a Master's degree from the Centre for the Study of Theory and Criticism at Western University . She attended The School of Criticism and Theory Summer School at Cornell University in 2016 and Tilburg University’s Philosophy Summer School in 2014.

As a lecturer, Kate seeks to bring together rigorous scholarship in the history of philosophy, exploration of burgeoning thinkers, and passionate engagement with how philosophical ideas are relevant to student’s lives.

Kate’s research interests include social and political thought, continental philosophy, aesthetics, philosophy of religion, phenomenology, Indian philosophy, existentialism, and ecological ethics.