Linda Martín Alcoff
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Linda Martín Alcoff is a philosopher and critic of the Enlightenment idea that science and other forms of knowledge-gathering can be done from a neutral perspective. She argues that our politics, identities and bodies shape what we can know and whether the world even recognizes us as knowers. In 2021 she was ranked as the third-most influential philosopher in the world by Academic Influence, and in 2024 was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Her book Visible Identities: Race, Gender and the Self won the Frantz Fanon Award and reframed how we think about identity.
Alcoff is Professor of Philosophy at Hunter College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York, former President of the American Philosophical Association, and Co-Director of the Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy.
Linda Martín Alcoff is a philosopher and critic of the Enlightenment idea that science and other forms of knowledge-gathering can be done from a neutral perspective. She argues that our politics, identities and bodies shape what we can know and whether the world even recognizes us as knowers. In 2021 she was ranked as the third-most influential philosopher in the world by Academic Influence, and in 2024 was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Her book Visible Identities: Race, Gender and the Self won the Frantz Fanon Award and reframed how we think about identity.
Alcoff is Professor of Philosophy at Hunter College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York, former President of the American Philosophical Association, and Co-Director of the Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy.