Kathleen Stock

Kathleen Mary Linn Stock OBE (born 1972) is a professor of philosophy at the University of Sussex.[1] She has published on aesthetics, fiction, imagination, sexual objectification, sex, gender, and sexual orientation. She is currently the vice-president of the British Society of Aesthetics.[2] In her monograph Only Imagine: Fiction, Interpretation and Imagination (2017), she examines the nature of fictional content.[3] She has expressed critical views on the UK Gender Recognition Act and trans self-identification.[4][5][6]

Kathleen Stock
Born1972 (age 48–49)
Aberdeen, Scotland
Alma materUniversity of Oxford, University of St Andrews, University of Leeds
Scientific career
FieldsAesthetics, fiction, imagination, sexual objectification, sex and gender, and sexual orientation
InstitutionsUniversity of Lancaster, University of East Anglia, University of Sussex
Websitewww.sussex.ac.uk/profiles/127266, kathleenstock.com

Stock has written one monograph as well as a number of articles in peer-reviewed academic journals, and has contributed several chapters to edited volumes.[7] She edited Philosophers on Music: Experience, Meaning, and Work (first edition 2007), and together with Katherine Thomson-Jones, she edited New Waves in Aesthetics (2008).

Stock has given lectures at the University of York,[8] the Aristotelian Society,[9] the London Aesthetics Forum,[10] the University of Wolverhampton,[11] the American Society for Aesthetics, and other places.

Stock has called for trans women who still have male genitalia to be excluded from women's changing rooms, characterising them as "still males" who may be sexually attracted to women, but denies opposing trans rights, saying "I gladly and vocally assert the rights of trans people to live their lives free from fear, violence, harassment or any discrimination" and "I think that discussing female rights is compatible with defending these trans rights.".[12]

Stock was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2021 New Year Honours for services to higher education.[13][14]

Selected works
  • ed. Philosophers on Music: Experience, Meaning, and Work (Oxford University Press, 2007).
  • New Waves in Aesthetics, edited with Katherine Thomson-Jones (Palgrave-Macmillan, 2008).
  • Fantasy, imagination, and film. British Journal of Aesthetics, 2009. 49 (4): 357–369.
  • Fictive Utterance and Imagining. Aristotelian Society Supplementary Volume. 2011, 85 (1): 145–161.
  • Some Reflections on Seeing-as, Metaphor-Grasping and Imagining. Aisthesis: Pratiche, Linguaggi E Saperi Dell'Estetico. 2013, 6 (1): 201–213.
  • Imagining and Fiction: Some Issues. Philosophy Compass. 2013, 8 (10): 887–896.
  • Sexual Objectification. Analysis, 2015, 75 (2): 191–195.
  • Learning from fiction and theories of fictional content. Teorema: International Journal of Philosophy, 2016, (3): 69–83.

References
  1. "Kathleen Stock : University of Sussex". www.sussex.ac.uk. Retrieved 19 April 2019.
  2. "About the Society – The British Society of Aesthetics". Retrieved 19 April 2019.
  3. Gilmore, Jonathan (6 May 2018). "Review of Only Imagine: Fiction, Interpretation, and Imagination". Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews.
  4. "Changing the concept of "woman" will cause unintended harms". The Economist. 6 July 2018. Retrieved 19 April 2019.
  5. "A conversation with Kathleen Stock on Transgender Identity". The Badger. 15 September 2018. Retrieved 19 April 2019.
  6. Fazackerley, Anna (30 October 2018). "UK universities struggle to deal with 'toxic' trans rights row". The Guardian. Retrieved 20 April 2019.
  7. "Kathleen Stock (University of Sussex) – PhilPeople". philpeople.org. Retrieved 20 April 2019.
  8. "Visiting Speaker: Kathleen Stock – Philosophy, The University of York". www.york.ac.uk. Retrieved 20 April 2019.
  9. "Kathleen Stock". The Aristotelian Society. 8 December 2018. Retrieved 20 April 2019.
  10. "Kathleen Stock". London Aesthetics Forum. Retrieved 20 April 2019.
  11. "Dr Kathleen Stock – University of Wolverhampton". www.wlv.ac.uk. Retrieved 20 April 2019.
  12. Doherty-Cove, Jody (5 July 2018). "'Trans women are still males with male genitalia' - university lecturer airs controversial views". The Argus. Retrieved 2 January 2021.
  13. "No. 63218". The London Gazette (Supplement). 31 December 2020. p. N14.
  14. https://www.brightonandhovenews.org/2020/12/30/actors-academics-and-ambulance-service-veteran-honoured-by-the-queen/
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