KATHRIN KOSLICKI (PhD, MIT, 1995) was born in Munich, Germany, where she spent the first eighteen years of her life. She came to America when she was twenty, after driving her motorcycle (then a Honda XL500, single-cylinder enduro) across France, Spain and Portugal for a year, trying (and failing) to understand Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit.

After a year of studying philosophy and classical philology at the University of Tübingen, Germany, Koslicki completed her undergraduate work at SUNY Stony Brook in 1990, received her PhD from MIT in 1995, and spent the next decade or so teaching in New Orleans, Los Angeles, Florida, and, most recently, at Tufts University. She joined the CU Philosophy Department in the Fall of 2007, thrilled to have escaped Boston’s gloomy six-month-long winters.

Her interests in philosophy lie mainly in metaphysics, the philosophy of language, and Ancient Greek philosophy, particularly Aristotle. In her monograph, The Structure of Objects, which appeared with Oxford University Press in April 2008, she defends a structure-based, neo-Aristotelian theory of parts and wholes.

Koslicki continues to make the world a more dangerous place by riding her 2003 Honda VFR800 all over the country; in keeping with her “biker image”, she also plays guitar and sings. She tries to fit into the local culture by engaging in excessive amounts of physical activity, especially rock and ice climbing, backcountry skiing, as well as mountain and road bike riding. She now owns a 2005 KTM 450 EXC as well, which she likes to take off-road on the trails in Colorado and the surrounding states.

For more information, see Professor Koslicki's personal website and CV.

• "Natural Kinds and Natural Kind Terms," Philosophical Compass, Vol.3 (2008).
• Towards a Neo-Aristotelian Mereology," Dialectica, Special Issue: “The Philosophy of Kit Fine”, Guest Editor: Kevin Mulligan, Vol.61, No.1 (2007), pp.127-159.
• “Aristotle’s Mereology and the Status of Form,” Journal of Philosophy, Special Issue: “Parts and Wholes”, ed. by Wolfgang Mann and Achille Varzi, Vol.CIII, No.12 (December 2006), 715-736.
• “Nouns, Mass and Count”, in: Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 2nd edition, edited by Donald M. Borchert, MacMillan Reference, USA, 2006.
• "On the Substantive Nature of Disagreements in Ontology," Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Vol.71, No.1 (July 2005), pp.85-105.
• “Almost Indiscernible Objects and the Suspect Strategy”, The Journal of Philosophy, Vol. 102, No.2 (February 2005), pp.55-77.
• "Constitution and Similarity," Philosophical Studies, Vol.117 (2004), pp.327-364.
• "The Crooked Path from Vagueness to Four-Dimensionalism," Philosophical Studies, Vol.114, No.1-2 (May 2003), pp.107-134.
• “Genericity and Logical Form”, Mind and Language, Vol.14, No.4 (December 1999), pp.441- 467.
• “The Semantics of Mass-Predicates”, Noûs, Vol.33, No.1 (March 1999), pp.46-91; reprinted in The Philosopher’s Annual, Vol.XXII.
• “Isolation and Non-Arbitrary Division: Frege’s Two Criteria for Counting”, Synthese, Vol.112, No.3 (September 1997), pp.403-30.
• “Four Eighths Hephaistos: Artifacts and Living Things in Aristotle”, History of Philosophy Quarterly, Vol.14, No.1 (January 1997), pp.77-98.