Jane Dryden
Associate Professor, Philosophy

Contact Information
- jdryden@mta.ca
- Phone
- (506) 364-2340
- Office
- Hart Hall 104
- Office hours
- Other websites
Personal website which has links to some of her research work: janedryden.weebly.com
Education
Fordham University, Bronx, NY
Ph.D. Degree conferred May, 2008.
Dissertation Title: Relational Autonomy: Bridging a Gap Between Feminism and German Idealism
Director: Dr. Michael Baur
M.A. Degree conferred in course, 2005
University of Toronto (University College) Toronto, Ontario
B.A., Philosophy Degree conferred, with High Distinction, 2002
Publications
Scholarly Publications
"Digestion, Habit, and Being at Home: Hegel and the Gut as Ambiguous Other," PhaenEx: Journal of Existential and Phenomenological Theory and Culture vol. 11 no. 2 (2016): 1-22.
“Hegel, Feminist Philosophy, and Disability: Rereading our History,” Disability Studies Quarterly vol. 33 no. 4 (October 2013); special issue on “Improving Feminist Philosophy and Theory by Taking Account of Disability,” edited by Shelley Tremain.
“Embodiment and Vulnerability in Fichte and Hegel,” Dialogue: Canadian Philosophical Review, Vol. 52 no. 1 (March 2013): 109-128.
“Evil and Moral Responsibility in J.G. Fichte’s The Vocation of Man,” in Fichte’s Vocation of Man: New Interpretative and Critical Essays, edited by Daniel Breazeale (Albany: State University of New York Press, forthcoming 2013). (Volume of papers from Tenth Biennial Meeting of the North American Fichte Society)
“The Empirical I in Fichte’s System of Ethics,” Philosophy Today Vol. 52 No. 3-4 (Fall-Winter 2008) (Volume of papers from Ninth Biennial Meeting of the North American Fichte Society).
Encyclopedia Entries
"Autonomy: Overview,"Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy(November 2010).
Recent Book Reviews
Review of Daniel Breazeale, Thinking Through the Wissenschaftslehre, Symposium: Journal of the Canadian Society for Continental Philosophy
Popular Publications
"The Power Ring of Green Lantern," with Mark D. White, Globe and Mail 22 June 2011: A15. (Op Ed)
"It's not easy being Green Lanterns," The Philosophers' Magazine, Issue 53 (2011), 96-99.
Green Lantern and Philosophy: Let No Evil Escape This Book, co-edited with Mark D. White. Wiley-Blackwell, 2011.
Teaching
Fall 2018:
PHIL 1611 - Self, Society and Freedom
PHIL 3351 - Phenomenology and Existentialism
Winter 2019:
PHIL 2301 - Introduction to Feminist Philosophy
PHIL 3711 - Biomedical Ethics
PHIL 4211 - Topics in Continental Philosophy: Philosophy of Bodies
Past courses:
Fall 2017:
PHIL 1611 - Self, Society and Freedom
PHIL 3991 - Kant's Practical Philosophy
Winter 2018:
PHIL 2401 - Introduction to Aesthetics
PHIL 3741 - Philosophy of Disability
Fall 2016:
PHIL 1611 - Self, Society and Freedom
PHIL 4111 - Topics in Moral, Social and Political Philosophy: Vulnerability and Embodiment
Winter 2017:
PHIL 2301 - Introduction to Feminist Philosophy
PHIL 3991 - Phenomenology & Existentialism
Fall 2015: On sabbatical
Winter 2016:
PHIL 2401 - Introduction to Aesthetics
PHIL 3711 - Biomedical Ethics
Fall 2014:
PHIL 1611 - Self, Society, and Freedom
PHIL 3999 -Kant's Third Critique
Winter 2015:
PHIL 2301 - Introduction to Feminist Philosophy
PHIL 4211 - Topics in Continental Philosophy: Foucault and Habermas
Grants, awards, & honours
SSHRC Connections Grant for “Philosophy and its Borders” Canadian Society for Women in Philosophy conference at Mount Allison University, 2016-2017; Co-Investigators Dr. Anna Mudde (U. of Regina) and Dr. Sylvia Burrow (Cape Breton U).
J.E.A. Crake Teaching Award in the Faculty of Arts, Mount Allison, 2012