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From Social Construction to Social Critique: An Interview with Sally Haslanger

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 January 2022

Jeremiah Joven B. Joaquin Open the ORCID record for Jeremiah Joven B. Joaquin [Opens in a new window]  and
Hazel T. Biana
Jeremiah Joven B. Joaquin*
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Department of Philosophy, De La Salle University, 2401 Taft Avenue, Malate, Manila, Philippines0922
Hazel T. Biana
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Department of Philosophy, De La Salle University, 2401 Taft Avenue, Malate, Manila, Philippines0922
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*Corresponding author. jeremiah.joaquin@dlsu.edu.phhazel.biana@dlsu.edu.ph
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Abstract

Sally Haslanger (b. 1955) is Ford Professor of Philosophy and Women's and Gender Studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a leading contemporary feminist philosopher. She has worked on analytic metaphysics, epistemology, and ancient philosophy. Her areas of interest are social and political philosophy, feminist theory, and critical race theory. Her 2012 book, Resisting Reality: Social Construction and Social Critique, collects papers published over the course of twenty years that link work in contemporary metaphysics, epistemology, and philosophy of language with social and political issues concerning gender, race, and the family. It was awarded the 2014 Joseph B. Gittler Prize for “outstanding scholarly contribution in the field of the philosophy of one or more of the social sciences.” In this interview, done in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic and the #BlackLivesMatter movement, we discuss her ideas on social practices, social structure, and structural explanation. We also delve into her debunking project of elucidating the notion of ideology in a way that links it with contemporary work in epistemology, philosophy of language, and philosophy of mind, and to do justice to the materiality of social practices and social structures.

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Hypatia , Volume 37 , Issue 1 , Winter 2022 , pp. 164 - 176
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Copyright © The Author(s), 2022. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of Hypatia, a Nonprofit Corporation

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