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Alison M. Jaggar

Main interests Social philosophy , moral philosophy , political

philosophy

Institutions University of Colorado, Boulder , University of

Oslo ,SUNY Buffalo , Miami University of Ohio ,

theUniversity of Cincinnati , theUniversity of Illinois at

Chicago , the University of California, Los

Angeles ,Rutgers University , Victoria University of

Wellington

Notable ideas Feminist philosophy , Feminist studies

Alison Jaggar is a College Professor of Distinction in the Philosophy and Women and Gender Studies

departments at the University of Colorado, Boulder .[1] She is also a Research Coordinator at the Centre for the

Study of Mind in Nature, University of Oslo, Norway ,[1] and a former president of the American Philosophical

Association .[2]

Jaggar was one of the first people to introduce feminist concerns in to philosophy .[3]

She is afounding member of the Society for Women in Philosophy , was instrumental in the creation of the field of feminist

studies, and taught what she believes to have been the first feminist philosophy course ever offered . [3]

Jaggar's work has been hugely influential, with Rosemarie Tong and Nancy Williams suggesting in the Stanford

Encyclopedia of Philosophy that "Alison Jaggar's summary of the fourfold function of feminist ethics cannot be

improved upon in any significant way "[4] and Jaggar's texts being considered classics . [5]

Education and career [edit ]

Jaggar received a bachelor's in philosophy at Bedford College, University of London in 1964 .[2]

She received amaster's in philosophy from th e University of Edinburgh in 1967, and her doctorate in philosophy from the State

University of New York, Buffalo in 1970 .[2] During her career, Jaggar has held appointments at SUNY

Buffalo, Miami University of Ohio , the University of Cincinnati , the University of Illinois at Chicago , the University of

California, Los Angeles , Rutgers University , Victoria University of Wellington , and the University of Oslo .[2]

Publications [edit ]

Jaggar has authored a large number of widely cited papers, most notably Love and knowledge: Emotion in

feminist epistemology , published in 1989 and cited by at least 800 other peer-reviewed papers as of August, 2013.

Jaggar has also acted as co-editor for the first issue of Telos , and was an associate editor of Hypatia from 2006-

2008 .[2]

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Jaggar has authored ten books: Feminist Frameworks: Alternative Theoretical Accounts of the Relations between

Women and Men in 1978, Feminist Politics and Human Nature in 1983, Gender/Body/Knowledge: Feminist

Reconstruction of Being and Knowing in 1989, Living with Contradiction: Controversies in Feminist Social Ethics in

1994, Morality and Social Justice: Point Counterpoint in 1995, The Blackwell Companion to Feminist Philosophy in

1998, Just Methods: An Interdisciplinary Feminist Reader in 2008, Abortion: Three Perspectives in 2009, Pogge

and his Critics in 2010, and Gender and Global Justice in 2013 .[2] As of August 2013, Feminist Politics and Human

Nature had been cited by more than 2,000 peer-reviewed papers.

References [edit ]

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b "Philosophy Department, University of California, Boulder" . University of Colorado, Boulder.

Retrieved 18 August 2013.

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f "Curriculum Vitae" .

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b DeSautels, Peggy. "Alison Jaggar: April 2013" . Highlighted Philosophers . American

Philosophical Association. Retrieved 18 August 2013.

4. Jump up^ Rosemarie Tong, Nancy Williams. "Feminist Ethics" . Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy .

Stanford. Retrieved 21 August 2013.

5. Jump up^ McAfee, Noelle. "Feminist Political Philosophy" . Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy . Stanford.

Retrieved 21 August 2013.

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21st-century philosophers

Feminist philosophers

Living people

Moral philosophers

Social philosophers

University of Colorado Boulder faculty

American women philosophers

Women's studies academics

American philosophers

20th-century philosophers

Epistemologists