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Sally Haslanger
Sally Haslanger is Ford Professor of Philosophy and Women’s and Gender Studies at MIT. Her work links issues of social justice with contemporary work in epistemology, metaphysics, philosophy of language, and philosophy of mind. A collection of her papers that represent this effort over twenty years was collected in Resisting Reality: Social Construction and Social Critique, and it received the Joseph B. Gittler Award for outstanding work in philosophy of the social sciences. She has co-edited three books that further reflect the breadth of her interests: with Elizabeth Hackett, Theorizing Feminisms: A Reader with Charlotte Witt, Adoption Matters: Philosophical and Feminist Essays with Roxanne Marie Kurtz, Persistence: Contemporary Readings.
Sally Haslanger is Ford Professor of Philosophy and Women’s and Gender Studies at MIT. Her work links issues of social justice with contemporary work in epistemology, metaphysics, philosophy of language, and philosophy of mind. A collection of her papers that represent this effort over twenty years was collected in Resisting Reality: Social Construction and Social Critique, and it received the Joseph B. Gittler Award for outstanding work in philosophy of the social sciences. She has co-edited three books that further reflect the breadth of her interests: with Elizabeth Hackett, Theorizing Feminisms: A Reader with Charlotte Witt, Adoption Matters: Philosophical and Feminist Essays with Roxanne Marie Kurtz, Persistence: Contemporary Readings.
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