Background
Kathleen Wilkes was born on June 23, 1946, in Berkshire, United Kingdom. She was a daughter of John Vaughan Wilkes and Joan Alington.
1999
Ul. don Frana Bulića 4, 20000, Dubrovnik, Croatia
Ivan Supek, a founder of the Inter-University Centre (IUC), with Dr. Kathy Wilkes in Dubrovnik.
Professor Branko Jeren, Rector of the University of Zagreb, congratulating Dr. Kathleen Vaughan Wilkes with an honorary doctoral degree.
Dr. Kathleen Vaughan Wilkes at the University of Zagreb.
Wycombe Abbey, Abbey Way, High Wycombe HP11 1PE, United Kingdom
Wycombe Abbey School where Kathleen Vaughan Wilkes studied.
St Margaret's Rd, Oxford OX2 6LE, United Kingdom
St Hugh's College where Kathleen Vaughan Wilkes studied.
Princeton, NJ 08544, United States
Princeton University where Kathleen Vaughan Wilkes received a Master of Arts degree and a Doctor of Philosophy degree.
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The book concludes that the thesis presented is in all essentials that of Aristotle; Aristotle had no ‘mind-body problem’, and were it not for a subsequent over-obsession with Cartesian scepticism, we need not have had one either.
https://www.amazon.com/Physicalism-Routledge-Library-Editions-Philosophy-ebook/dp/B00PWAKG6G/ref=sr_1_fkmr0_2?keywords=Physicalism+Kathy+Wilkes&qid=1576940838&s=books&sr=1-2-fkmr0
1978
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This book explores the scope and limits of the concept of a person. Questioning the methodology of thought-experimentation, Wilkes argues that such experimentation engenders inconclusive and unconvincing results, and that truth is anyway stranger than fiction. She then examines an assortment of real-life conditions, including fantasy, insanity and dementia, dissociated states, and split brains; questions the idea that people have some special kind of unity and continuity of consciousness; and looks at the views of the person as found in Homer, Aristotle, the post-Cartesians, and contemporary cognitive science.
https://www.amazon.com/Real-People-Experiments-Clarendon-Paperbacks/dp/0198240805
1988
Kathleen Wilkes was born on June 23, 1946, in Berkshire, United Kingdom. She was a daughter of John Vaughan Wilkes and Joan Alington.
Kathleen Wilkes attended Wycombe Abbey School. Later she studied at St Hugh's College where she achieved a double First in 1969. Wilkes also studied at Princeton University where she studied with Thomas Nagel, Richard Rorty, and others and received a Doctor of Philosophy degree in 1973. Besides, she was honored with a doctorate from the University of Zagreb.
Kathleen Wilkes started her career as a research fellow at King's College in 1972. One year after she took up a post of a Tutor in Philosophy at St Hilda's College. She held this post until her death in 2003. At the same time, Wilkes also worked as a Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Oxford. She is also one of the founders of three institutions: Jan Hus Educational Foundation in 1979, Oxford Colleges Hospitality Scheme founded in 1981 and OSI/FCO Chevening Scholars Scheme founded in 1986.
Kathleen Wilkes combined her work as a professor with the career of a philosopher. In 1979, she responded to an invitation from the dissident philosophical community in Prague to conduct secret seminars. Wilkes took part in an international postgraduate course called Philosophy and Science, first as a lecturer and later as the director of the course. She was the co-director of two other courses: Philosophy of Mind and What does it mean to be European. In 1986, Wilkes became Chairman of the executive committee of the Inter-University Centre in Dubrovnik. During the Croatian war of independence, she refused to leave and was the "unofficial secretary to the mayor" who wrote letters to eminent people and to officials throughout the world.
Kathleen Wilkes published her first book Physicalism in 1978. Later she wrote such books as Real People and Modelling the Mind. Wilkes also wrote numerous articles for different newspapers such as New Statesman, Times, Guardian, Observer and others. She was one of the editors of International Studies in the Philosophy of Science from 1986 to 1996. Wilkes is also one of the editors of the proceedings Modelling the Mind.
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1988Kathleen Wilkes has been a consistent defender of physicalism and functionalism. She has argued that functionalism, once properly construed and informed by empirical data, can unify psychology and neurophysiology.
Kathleen Wilkes’ work on personal identity is collected in her 1988 monograph, Real People. She has argued that the highly speculative thought experiments that have been so characteristic of analytic approaches to personal identity are unhelpful and she has instead focused on real-life problems for the notion of personhood.
Kathleen Wilkes was one of the founders of the British-Croatian Society and its President from 1995. She also was President of the IUC Executive Board.