Elizabeth Anderson

John Rawls Collegiate Professor of Philosophy and Women's Studies PhD:  Harvard University, Department of Philosophy, 1987.   A.M. Philosophy, 1984. Ph.D. 1987.

Contact Information:
2239 Angell Hall
435 S. State St.
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1003
734.763.2118
Email: eandersn@umich.edu

Websites:
http://www-personal.umich.edu/~eandersn/
http://www.lsa.umich.edu/philosophy/

Scholarly Interests: Ethics, social and political philosophy, philosophy of the social sciences, feminist theory, epistemology

Biography: Elizabeth Anderson is Arthur F. Thurnau Professor and John Rawls Collegiate Professor of Philosophy and Women's Studies. Her research interests include feminist epistemology and philosophy of science, democratic theory, egalitarianism, pragmatism, and theories of rationality and social norms. She is the author of a series of articles on the interaction of facts and values in social science research, paying particular attention to feminist research and research on racial differences. She has also written extensively on affirmative action and racial integration, antidiscrimination law (including the law on sexual harassment), and the commodification of women's sexuality and reproductive powers (prostitution, surrogate motherhood). She is the author of Value in Ethics and Economics (Harvard University Press, 1993), which explores how goods differ in kind, with particular applications to controversies over the ethical limitations of the market. Her latest book, The Imperative of Integration, on racial integration, racial justice, and democracy, is forthcoming from Princeton University Press.

Publications:

"Recent Thinking about Sexual Harassment" Philosophy and Public Affairs 34 (2006).

"Welfare, Work Requirements, and Dependent Care," Journal of Applied Philosophy 21 (2004): 243-256.

"Uses of Value Judgments in Feminist Social Science: A Case Study of Research on Divorce," Hypatia 19 (2004): 1-24.

"What is the Point of Equality?," Ethics 109 (1999): 287-337.