Sally Haslanger

Sally Haslanger
Haslanger in 2013
EducationUniversity of California, Berkeley (PhD)
University of Virginia (MA)
Reed College (BA)
Alma materUniversity of California, Berkeley
Notable workResisting Reality: Social Construction and Social Critique (2012)
SpouseStephen Yablo
AwardsGuggenheim Fellowship (2018)
Carus Lecturer (2011)
SWIP Distinguished Woman Philosopher Award (2010)
EraContemporary philosophy
RegionWestern philosophy
SchoolAnalytic philosophy, feminist philosophy, critical theory, social constructionism
InstitutionsMassachusetts Institute of Technology
Main interests
Metaphysics, epistemology, feminist theory, political philosophy, critical race theory
Notable ideas
Social construction of race and gender

Sally Haslanger (/ˈhæslæŋər/) is an American philosopher and the Ford Professor of Philosophy in the Department of Linguistics and Philosophy at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.[1]

Haslanger earned her Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of California, Berkeley in 1985. She has taught at Princeton University, University of Pennsylvania and University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.[2] Haslanger is particularly famous for her work on social and political theory, feminism and philosophy of gender and race .[3]

  1. ^ "MIT philosophy faculty: Sally Haslanger". www.MIT.edu. Retrieved June 11, 2017.
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