ALEKSANDRA DERRA

lecturer
Philosophy
Trinity College Dublin
Ireland

Biography

I am a philosopher, translator and philologian. With a constant enthusiasm I have been working as a lecturer in the Instiute of Philosophy at Nicolaus Copernicus University in ToruÅ„ (Poland) and as research visiting fellow at Centre for Gender and Women’s Studies at Trinity College in Dublin (Ireland). I had the pleasure of being a visiting fellow in Centre for Logic and Analytic Philosophy at Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Belgium) and Centre for the Humanities at Universiteit Utrecht (the Netherlands). I was also on a very salutary placement at Kings College in Oxford and at Subfaculty of Philosophy of Oxford University. I have been working on the issues of contemporary philosophy of science and science and technology studies in feminist perspective. I am interested also in the philosophy of language, the phenomenon of corporeality in culture and subjectivity in contemporary feminist theories. I have published two books: „OdsÅ‚onić tajemnicÄ™ znaczenia. Eseje z filozofii jÄ™zyka” (Essays in philosophy of language, ToruÅ„ 2011) and „Kobiety (w) nauce. Problem pÅ‚ci we wspóÅ‚czesnej filozofii nauki i w praktyce badawczej” (Women in/of science. Gender problem in philosophy of science and scientific practice, Warsaw 2013), I coedited "Horyzonty konstruktywizmu. Inspiracje, perspektywy, przyszÅ‚ość" (Horizons of constructivism. Inspirations, perspectives and future, ToruÅ„ 2016) and "Studia nad naukÄ… i technologiÄ…. Wybór tekstów" (Science and technology studies reader, ToruÅ„ 2014) Some of my publications occured in „PrzeglÄ…d Filozoficzny”, „Teksty Drugie”, „Studia Semiotyczne”, „Filozofia nauki”, „Constructivist Foundation”. I have translated works of Stanley Fish, Rosi Braidotti, Brunon Latour. At the moment I am working on constructive critiques of neuroscience.

Research Intrest

Philosophy

List of Publications
Why has the Queen of Bees Been the King for so Long? A Few Reflections on the Gender Problem in Science, W: Hajo Greif, Martin Weiss (eds.), Ethics, Society, Politics. Proceedings of the 35th International Wittgenstein Symposium. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter Ontos 2013, 531-545.
The Wittgensteinian idea of analysis as a base for constructive contemporary scepticism, in: Johann Ch. Marek, Maria E. Reicher (ed.), Experience and Analysis. Papers of the 27th International Wittgenstein Symposium, vol. XII, August 8-14, 2004, Kirchbergam Wechsel 2004, 98-100
Scepticism as a constructive philosophical approach. (Historical background – main theses - contemporary examples.), Toruński Przegląd Filozoficzny vol. 7/8, 2006, 167-176.
ebensform as a Wittgensteinian way of understanding culture. Theoretical perspectives for the (intercultural) dialogue, in: Christian Kanzian, Edmund Runggaldier (eds.), Cultures. Conflict-Analysis-Dialogue, Proceedings of the 29th International Ludwig Wittgenstein Symposium, Kirchberg, Austria 2007, 33-43.
The Non-dualizing Way of Speaking and the Female Subjectivity Problem, Constructivist Foundations, special issue: Non-dualizng Philosophy of Josef Mitterer, (eds.) A. Riegler S. Weber, July 2008, 208-214.
Explicit and Implicit Assumptions in Noam Chomskys Theory of Language Forum Philosophicum vol. 13, 1/2008, 83-101.
How the Category of Embodiment Transforms the Problems of Philosophy of Language: The Case of Understanding, in: Language and World. Part Two. Signs, Minds and Actions, (ed.) Volker Munz, Klaus Puhl, Joseph Wang, Frankfurt, Lancaster: ontosverlag 2010, 235-245.
Nicht-dualisierende Redeweise und weibliche Subjektivität, in: Alexander Riegler and Stefan Weber (hg.), Die Dritte Philosophie. Kritische Beiträgezu Josef Mitterers Non-Dualismus, Weilerswist: Velbrück Wissenschaft 2010, 215-227.
Women in/of science. Gender problem in contemporary philosophy of science and research practice, Warsaw: Scholar Press 2013
Revealing the mystery of meaning. Essays in philosophy of language, Toruń: Toruń University Press 2011