"Encountering Race in Life and Language": Dr. Sally Haslanger

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Nationally recognized scholar Dr. Sally Haslanger will speak on “Encountering Race in Life and Language" at this FREE event, open to the public.

UNC Charlotte ADVANCE and the Center for Professional and Applied Ethics are primary sponsors.
Co-sponsors are Discovery Place, the Graduate School and the Departments of Philosophy, Sociology and Africana Studies.

Haslanger is a professor in MIT’s Department of Linguistics and Philosophy and has received highest honors from two prestigious associations in philosophy. She has been named the 2011 Carus Lecturer, an honor presented bi-annually by the American Philosophical Association (APA), and she has been selected Distinguished Woman Philosopher of 2010 by the Society for Women in Philosophy.

She has published on topics in metaphysics, epistemology and feminist theory, with a recent emphasis on accounts of the social construction of race and gender.