Sally Haslanger

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Sally Haslanger

Sally Haslanger (* 1955 ) is an American philosopher and professor. She has held the Ford Professorship in Philosophy and Women and Gender Studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology since 2014.

Life

Sally Haslanger grew up in Connecticut and moved to Shreveport , Louisiana when she was 8 years old . She attended Reed College from 1972 , where she graduated in 1977 with a double degree in philosophy and religious studies. She then studied philosophy at the University of Virginia . In 1979 she went to the University of California at Berkeley , where she graduated with a PhD in 1988. In 2014, she was appointed Ford Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology ; In 2015 she received a visiting professorship at the Spinoza Chair at the University of Amsterdam .

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Haslanger has published in the fields of metaphysics , feminist metaphysics, epistemology , feminist theory , ancient philosophy, and social and political philosophy . She writes that much of her work has focused on persistence through change, objectivity and objectification, as well as Catharine MacKinnon's theory of the sexes. She has also pioneered the social construction of categories that were often considered natural, such as race and gender in particular . A collection of her most important work on these issues was published in 2012 by Oxford University Press under the title Resisting Reality: Social Construction and Social Critique . This collection was awarded the American Philosophical Association's Joseph B. Gittler Prize in 2014, a prize awarded for outstanding scientific contribution to the philosophy of one or more social sciences.

In 2015 Haslanger was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences .

Fonts

  • What is Race: Four Philosophical Views (with Joshua Glasgow, Chike Jeffers and Quayshawn Spencer). OUP 2019.
  • Critical Theory and Practice (2015 Spinoza Lectures) . Assen: Koninklijke Van Gorcum, 2017.
  • Resisting Reality: Social Construction and Social Critique. Oxford University Press, 2012.
  • Persistence: Contemporary Readings, co-edited with Roxanne Marie Kurtz, MIT Press, 2006.
  • Theorizing Feminisms , co-edited with Elizabeth Hackett, Oxford University Press, 2005.

Web links

Commons : Sally Haslanger  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ CV. Retrieved May 11, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Biography. In: Sally Haslanger. Retrieved May 11, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Book of Members 1780 – present, Chapter H. (PDF; 1.2 MB) In: American Academy of Arts and Sciences (amacad.org). Retrieved May 11, 2020 .
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SURNAME Haslanger, Sally
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American philosopher
DATE OF BIRTH 1955