Sally Haslanger

Sally Haslanger is Ford Professor of Philosophy and Women’s and Gender Studies at MIT. She also teaches in D-Lab, a program using participatory design to create inclusive, accessible, and sustainable solutions to global poverty challenges. Broadly speaking, 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 (Oxford 2012); it received the Joseph B. Gittler award for outstanding work in philosophy of the social sciences. She recently co-authored What is Race: Four Philosophical Views (Oxford 2019) with Joshua Glasgow, Chike Jeffers and Quayshawn Spencer. In 2015, she was the Spinoza Professor at the University of Amsterdam and her lectures have appeared as a booklet: Critical Theory and Practice (Koninklijke Van Gorcum, 2017). Recently Haslanger has been working on social practices, social structure, structural explanation with an emphasis on the materiality of social practices and the role of ideology.  She was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2019 to complete a book Doing Justice to the Social (under contract with Oxford University Press) on these topics.  You can find out more about her here: http://sallyhaslanger.weebly.com