Katherine Hawley

Katherine Jane Hawley (1971–2021) was a British philosopher specializing in metaphysics, epistemology, ethics, and philosophy of physics. She was a professor of philosophy at the University of St Andrews. Hawley authored *How Things Persist* (OUP 2002), *Trust: a Very Short Introduction* (OUP 2012), and *How To Be Trustworthy* (OUP 2020). Hawley was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 2016, elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 2020, and she was the recipient of a Philip Leverhulme Prize (2003) and a Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship (2014–16). She was born in Stoke-on-Trent, England. She did her undergraduate degree in physics and philosophy at Balliol College, Oxford and later received her MPhil and PhD in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge, under the supervision of Peter Lipton. Prior to becoming a Lecturer at the University of St Andrews in 1999, Hawley had been Henry Sidgwick Research Fellow of Newnham College, Cambridge. She lived in Anstruther in Fife with her husband Jon Hesk, Reader in the Classics Department of St. Andrews University, with whom she had two children. She served as an editorial chair of *The Philosophical Quarterly* (2005–10), in addition to being a deputy and an associate editor of the *British Journal for the Philosophy of Science*. She died at home with her family supporting her in April 2021.