Sally Haslanger
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Sally Haslanger is a professor of philosophy
in the Department of Linguistics and Philosophy at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
. Since 2009, she has also served as Director of the Women's and Gender Studies program. She has published in metaphysics
, epistemology, feminist theory
, ancient philosophy
, and social and political philosophy
. Much of her work has focused on persistence and endurance through change; objectivity and objectification; Catharine MacKinnon
's theory of gender; and the social construction of categories often considered to be natural kinds, particularly race and gender. She earned her Ph.D. in 1985 from the University of California, Berkeley
.
Haslanger was selected as the 2011 Carus Lecturer by the American Philosophical Association
. The Society for Women in Philosophy named her a 2010 Distinguished Woman Philosopher, citing her as one of the best analytic philosophers in the United States.
Haslanger co-edits the Symposia on Gender, Race and Philosophy, an online publication for recent philosophical work on gender and race.
She is married to fellow MIT philosopher Stephen Yablo
.
Philosophy
Philosophy is the study of general and fundamental problems, such as those connected with existence, knowledge, values, reason, mind, and language. Philosophy is distinguished from other ways of addressing such problems by its critical, generally systematic approach and its reliance on rational...
in the Department of Linguistics and Philosophy at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology is a private research university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts. MIT has five schools and one college, containing a total of 32 academic departments, with a strong emphasis on scientific and technological education and research.Founded in 1861 in...
. Since 2009, she has also served as Director of the Women's and Gender Studies program. She has published in metaphysics
Metaphysics
Metaphysics is a branch of philosophy concerned with explaining the fundamental nature of being and the world, although the term is not easily defined. Traditionally, metaphysics attempts to answer two basic questions in the broadest possible terms:...
, epistemology, feminist theory
Feminist theory
Feminist theory is the extension of feminism into theoretical, or philosophical discourse, it aims to understand the nature of gender inequality...
, ancient philosophy
Ancient philosophy
This page lists some links to ancient philosophy. In Western philosophy, the spread of Christianity through the Roman Empire marked the ending of Hellenistic philosophy and ushered in the beginnings of Medieval philosophy, whereas in Eastern philosophy, the spread of Islam through the Arab Empire...
, and social and political philosophy
Political philosophy
Political philosophy is the study of such topics as liberty, justice, property, rights, law, and the enforcement of a legal code by authority: what they are, why they are needed, what, if anything, makes a government legitimate, what rights and freedoms it should protect and why, what form it...
. Much of her work has focused on persistence and endurance through change; objectivity and objectification; Catharine MacKinnon
Catharine MacKinnon
Catharine Alice MacKinnon is an American feminist, scholar, lawyer, teacher and activist.- Biography :MacKinnon was born in Minnesota. Her mother is Elizabeth Valentine Davis; her father, George E. MacKinnon was a lawyer, congressman , and judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit...
's theory of gender; and the social construction of categories often considered to be natural kinds, particularly race and gender. She earned her Ph.D. in 1985 from the University of California, Berkeley
University of California, Berkeley
The University of California, Berkeley , is a teaching and research university established in 1868 and located in Berkeley, California, USA...
.
Haslanger was selected as the 2011 Carus Lecturer by the American Philosophical Association
American Philosophical Association
The American Philosophical Association is the main professional organization for philosophers in the United States. Founded in 1900, its mission is to promote the exchange of ideas among philosophers, to encourage creative and scholarly activity in philosophy, to facilitate the professional work...
. The Society for Women in Philosophy named her a 2010 Distinguished Woman Philosopher, citing her as one of the best analytic philosophers in the United States.
Haslanger co-edits the Symposia on Gender, Race and Philosophy, an online publication for recent philosophical work on gender and race.
She is married to fellow MIT philosopher Stephen Yablo
Stephen Yablo
Stephen Yablo is a philosopher at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology . He specializes in the philosophy of logic, philosophy of mind, metaphysics, and philosophy of language....
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Books
- Persistence: Contemporary Readings (co-edited with Roxanne Marie Kurtz), MIT Press, 2006. WorldCat record
- Adoption Matters: Philosophical and Feminist Essays (co-edited with Charlotte Witt), Cornell University Press, 2005. Cornell University Press book page
- Theorizing Feminisms: A Reader (co-edited with Elizabeth Hackett), Oxford University Press, 2005. Oxford University Press book page
Articles
- “Ideology, Social Knowledge, and Common Ground.” Forthcoming in Charlotte Witt, ed., Feminism and Metaphysics.
- “Language, Politics and “The Folk”: Looking for “The Meaning” of ‘Race’.” Forthcoming in The Monist.
- “Family, Ancestry and Self: What is the Moral Significance of Biological Ties.” Adoption and Culture, 2009.
- "Changing the Ideology and Culture of Philosophy: Not by Reason (Alone)." Hypatia, Vol. 23, Issue 2, pp. 210–223, May 2008. Available online here.
- “A Social Constructionist Analysis of Race,” in Revisiting Race in a Genomic Age, ed., Barbara Koenig, Sandra Soo-Jin Lee, Sarah Richardson (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press), 2008.
- ““But Mom, crop-tops are cute!” Social Knowledge, Social Structure and Ideology Critique,” Philosophical Issues, 17:1 (Sept 2007): 70-91. Reprinted in Philosopher's Annual IXXX (2007).
- “What Good Are Our Intuitions: Philosophical Analysis and Social Kinds,” Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society Supplementary Volume, vol. 80, no. 1 (2006): 89-118.
- “What Are We Talking About? The Semantics and Politics of Social Kinds,” Hypatia 20:4 (Fall 2005): 10-26.
- “Social Construction: Who? What? Where? How?” in Theorizing Feminisms, ed., E. Hackett and S. Haslanger (Oxford: Oxford University Press) 2005.
- “You Mixed? Racial Identity without Racial Biology,” in Adoption Matters: Philosophical and Feminist Essays, ed., S. Haslanger and C. Witt. (Ithaca: Cornell University Press), January 2005.
- “Future Genders? Future Races?” Philosophic Exchange 34 (2003-4): 4-27. Reprinted in Moral Issues in Global Perspective, 2nd edition, ed., Christine Koggel. (Broadview Press, 2005).
- “Racial Geographies,” in Families by Law: An Adoption Reader, ed., Naomi Cahn and Joan Hollinger. (New York: New York University Press, 2004): 208-211.
- “Oppressions: Racial and Other,” in Racism, Philosophy and Mind, ed., Michael Levine and Tamas Pataki. (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2004): 97-123.
- “Gender, Patriotism, the Events of 9/11,” Peace Review: A Journal of Social Justice 15:4 (2003): 457-461.
- "Topics in Feminism" (with Nancy Tuana) The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Spring 2003 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.), here
- “Persistence Through Time,” in The Oxford Handbook of Metaphysics, ed., M. Loux and D. Zimmerman. (Oxford: Oxford U. Press, 2003), pp. 315–354.
- “Social Construction: The “Debunking” Project,” in Socializing Metaphysics: The Nature of Social Reality, ed., Frederick F. Schmitt. (Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2003), pp. 301-325.
- “Gender, Race: (What) Are They? (What) Do We Want Them To Be?” Noûs 34:1 (March 2000): 31-55. Reprinted in Philosopher's Annual XXIII (2001). Reprinted in Feminist Theory: A Philosophical Anthology, ed., Ann Cudd and Robin Andreason. Blackwell Publishers, 2004.
- “Feminism in Metaphysics: Negotiating the Natural,” in The Cambridge Companion to Feminism in Philosophy, ed., J. Hornsby and M. Fricker (Cambridge University Press, 2000), pp. 107–126.
- “What Knowledge Is and What It Ought To Be: Feminist Values and Normative Epistemology,” in Philosophical Perspectives (1999): 459-480. Reprinted in a shortened version as: “Defining Knowledge: Feminist Values and Normative Epistemology,” in the Proceedings of the World Congress of Philosophy, (1999).
- “Ontology and Social Construction,” Philosophical Topics 23:2 (Fall 1995) 95-125. Reprinted in a shortened version as: ““Objective” Reality, “Male” Reality, and Social Construction,” in A. Garry and M. Pearsall, ed., Women, Knowledge, and Reality, 2nd edition (NY: Routledge, 1996) pp. 84-107. A further shortened version reprinted as ““Objective” Reality, “Male” Reality, and Social Construction,” in The Canon and Its Critics: A Multiperspective Introduction to Philosophy, ed., Todd M. Furman and Mitchell Avila (Mountain View, CA: Mayfield Pub. 2000), pp, 257-265.
- “Humean Supervenience and Enduring Things,” Australasian Journal of Philosophy 72:3 (September 1994) 339-359.
- “Parts, Compounds, and Substantial Unity,” in Unity and Identity of Aristotelian Substances, ed., David Charles, Mary Louise Gill, and Theodore Scaltsas (Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press, 1994) 129-170.
- “On Being Objective and Being Objectified,” in A Mind of One's Own: Feminist Essays on Reason and Objectivity, ed., Louise Antony and Charlotte Witt (Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1993), 85-125.
- “Ontology and Pragmatic Paradox,” Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society 92:3 (1992), 293-313.
- “Endurance and Temporary Intrinsics,” Analysis 49:3 (1989), 119-125.
- “Persistence, Change, and Explanation,” Philosophical Studies 56 (1989), 1-28.