Katherine Brading

Katherine Astrid Brading (born 1970){{r|lc}} is a philosopher of science and historian of science whose works have concerned theoretical physics, symmetry, and Émilie du Châtelet. Educated in England, she works in the US as a professor of philosophy at Duke University.

Education

Brading earned a bachelor's degree in physics and philosophy from King's College London in 1992.{{r|western}} She completed her doctorate (D.Phil.) at St Hugh's College, Oxford in 2001, with the dissertation Symmetries, conservation laws, and Noether's variational problem.{{r|lc}}

In 2017 she moved from a position as professor of philosophy at the University of Notre Dame to her present position at Duke University.{{r|nous}} Since 2022 she has chaired the Department of Philosophy at Duke.{{r|duke}}

Books

Brading is the author of Émilie Du Châtelet and the Foundations of Physical Science (Routledge, 2019).{{r|kawashima}} With Elena Castellani, she is co-editor of Symmetries in Physics: Philosophical Reflections (Cambridge University Press, 2003).{{r|sambles|cat|wuth}} She is the coauthor of Philosophical Mechanics in the Age of Reason (with Marius Stan, Oxford University Press, 2023).{{r|tho}}

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| last = Cat | first = Jordi

| date = October 2006

| doi = 10.1086/516808

| issue = 4

| journal = Philosophy of Science

| pages = 459–468

| title = Essay Review: Symmetries in Physics

| volume = 73}}

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| last = Kawashima | first = Keiko | author-link = Keiko Kawashima

| date = June 2021

| journal = Annual Bulletin of the Japanese Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies

| pages = 129–131

| title = Review of Emilie du Chatelet and the Foundations of Physical Science

| url = https://cir.nii.ac.jp/crid/1520574655203195008

| volume = 36}}

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{{citation

| last = Sambles | first = Professor J.R.

| date = March 2011

| doi = 10.1080/00107514.2010.537777

| issue = 2

| journal = Contemporary Physics

| pages = 166–168

| title = Review of Symmetries in Physics

| volume = 52}}

{{citation

| last = Tho | first = Tzuchien

| doi = 10.5840/leibniz2023337

| journal = The Leibniz Review

| pages = 85–95

| publisher = Philosophy Documentation Center

| title = Review of Philosophical Mechanics in the Age of Reason

| volume = 33

| year = 2023}}

{{citation|url=https://www.rotman.uwo.ca/event/katherine-brading-unity-change/|title=Katherine Brading: Unity, Change, and What There Is|date=November 4, 2011|publisher=Rotman Institute of Philosophy, University of Western Ontario|access-date=2024-10-19}}

{{citation

| last = Wüthrich | first = Christian

| date = September 2005

| doi = 10.1016/j.shpsb.2005.05.002

| issue = 3

| journal = Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part B: Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics

| pages = 576–582

| title = Book review: Symmetries in Physics

| volume = 36}}

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