Katharine Gilbert, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Date of Birth: 29-Jul-1886
Place of Birth: Newport, Rhode Island, United States
Date of Death: 28-Apr-1952
Profession: philosopher
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Leo 
About Katharine Gilbert
- Katharine Everett Gilbert (1886–1952), an American philosopher who studied aesthetics, was one of the first women to be president of the American Philosophical Society.
- She was also the first female professor at Duke University and, during her lifetime, the only female chairman of a liberal arts department.She published four books on her studies, Maurice Blondel's Philosophy of Action (1924); Studies in Recent Aesthetics (1927); with Helmut Kuhn, A History of Aesthetics (1939); and Aesthetic Studies: Architecture and Poetry (1952).
- She was awarded an Honorary Doctor of Letters degree by Brown University in 1942.
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