
In real life I have started to grow in my gray----photo to be updated when I look less stripey.
Karen Bennett
I am Professor and Chair of the Department of Philosophy at Rutgers-New Brunswick. I came to Rutgers in the fall of 2018 after spending 11 years at Cornell. Before that, I was an assistant professor at Princeton as well as a post-doc at the Australian National University in Canberra. Before THAT, I received my Ph.D. from the University of Michigan under the direction of Steve Yablo, Jim Joyce, Alan Gibbard, and Mark Crimmins. Let's keep rewinding: I went to Oberlin College, attended a giant public high school in suburban Phoenix, and spent my childhood in rural central Pennsylvania, an area sometimes charmingly called 'Pennsyltucky'.
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I live in Princeton with my husband, poet/critic David Orr, and our 8th grader, who currently wants to be a classicist but would make an equally good screenwriter or assassin.
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Newly posted papers! (abstracts etc. here)
Finding Dry Ground (first half only -- see note at beginning)
The Determination First Approach to Plexology
In Defense of Metaground (mercifully short!)
Emergence, Exclusion, and the Proper Subset of Causal Powers Strategy
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(Yay for sabbatical!)
Upcoming conferences and whatnot
Clark Lecture, University of Indiana
Lead symposiast, 2027 Joint Session