Region Western Philosophers Name Sandra Laugier | Role Philosopher | |
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Areas of interest Philosophy of language, Pragmatics, Ethics of care, Ethics Schools of thought Philosophy of language, Analytic philosophy, Feminism, Ethics Books Why We Need Ordinary Language Philosophy Similar People Stanley Cavell, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Jacques Bouveresse, J L Austin, Veena Das | ||
Philosophical era Contemporary philosophy | ||
The ethics of care as a politics of the ordinary by sandra laugier
Sandra Laugier is a French philosopher, working on moral philosophy, political philosophy, philosophy of language, philosophy of action and philosophy of science. She is currently a full professor of philosophy at the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, a Senior member of the Institut Universitaire de France, and a scientific deputy director at the Institute for Humanities & Social Sciences (INSHS, Institut des sciences humaines et sociales) at the French National Centre for Scientific Research, after being a professor at the University of Picardie Jules Verne in Amiens until 2010.
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She has studied at Ecole Normale Supérieure and at Harvard University. She is director of the Center for Contemporary Philosophy, Institut des sciences juridique et philosophique de la Sorbonne (UMR 8103, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne/CNRS).
She has extensively published on ordinary language philosophy (Ludwig Wittgenstein, John L. Austin), moral philosophy (moral perfectionism, ethics of care), American philosophy (Stanley Cavell, Henry David Thoreau, Ralph Waldo Emerson), gender studies, popular culture (TV series), and more recently about democracy and civil disobedience. She is the French translator of most of Stanley Cavell’s work.
She has been Visiting Researcher at the Max Planck Institute (Berlin), Distinguished Visiting Professor at Johns Hopkins University, Visiting Professor at Pontifical University (Lima), and Visiting Professor “Chaire invitée” at the Facultés Saint-Louis (Bruxelles).
She was also a columnist at the French journal Libération.