Alison Jaggar

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Alison M. Jaggar
Born
Alison Mary Hayes

September 23, 1942
Sheffield, England, United Kingdom
Era Contemporary philosophy
Region Western philosophy
School Feminist philosophy, Feminist studies
Institutions University of Colorado, Boulder, University of Oslo, SUNY Buffalo, Miami University, the University of Cincinnati, the University of Illinois at Chicago, the University of California, Los Angeles, Rutgers University, Victoria University of Wellington
Main interests
 Social philosophy, moral philosophy, political philosophy

Alison Mary Jaggar (born September 23, 1942) [1] is an American feminist philosopher born in England. She is College Professor of Distinction in the Philosophy and Women and Gender Studies departments at the University of Colorado, Boulder [2] and Distinguished Research Professor at the University of Birmingham in the United Kingdom. She was one of the first people to introduce feminist concerns in to philosophy. [3]

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Education and career

Born in Sheffield, England, [1] Jaggar earned a bachelor's degree in philosophy at Bedford College, University of London in 1964 [4] and a master's degree in philosophy from the University of Edinburgh in 1967. She completed her doctorate in philosophy from the State University of New York (SUNY), Buffalo in 1970. [4]

During her career, Jaggar has held appointments at SUNY Buffalo, Miami University, the University of Cincinnati, the University of Illinois at Chicago, the University of California, Los Angeles, Rutgers University, Victoria University of Wellington, the University of Oslo, and the University of Birmingham. [4] [5] From 1994 to 1997, she was director of the Women's Studies department at the University of Colorado at Boulder. She later served as Graduate Director and Associate Chair of the Philosophy department at the university from 2004 to 2008. [4] From 2007 to 2014, she worked as a Research Coordinator at the Centre for the Study of Mind in Nature at the University of Oslo in Norway. [2] [4]

A founding member of the Society for Women in Philosophy, she 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] A co-founder of Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy , [6] Jaggar was a member of the editorial board from 1983 to 2009 and Associate Editor from 2006 to 2008. [7] She chaired the American Philosophical Association (APA) Committee on the Status of Women from 1986 to 1991 [4] and served as co-president of the North American Society for Social Philosophy from 1995 to 1997. [4]

Jaggar has been awarded research fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Rockefeller Foundation, American Association of University Women (AAUW), the University of Edinburgh, the Norwegian Research Council and the Australian Research Council. [8] She has served on the editorial boards of Against the Current , Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy , Radical Philosophy Review , Asian Journal of Women's Studies, Journal of Social Philosophy , Studies in Feminist Philosophy, International Journal of Feminist Bioethics, and Journal of International Critical Thought. [4]

Jaggar was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2017. [9]

Philosophical work

Jaggar studies gender and globalization using normative, methodological, and epistemological perspectives. She has published several articles identifying "how global institutions and policies interact with local practices to create gendered cycles of vulnerability and exploitation" and its influence on policy. She has helped develop a new poverty measure that evaluates how gender influences and is impacted by poverty. [5]

Her work has been hugely influential, [10] with Rosemarie Tong and Nancy Williams suggesting in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy that "If ethics is about human beings' liberation, then Alison Jaggar's summary of the fourfold function of feminist ethics cannot be improved upon in any significant way" [11] and Jaggar's texts being considered classics. [12]

Selected publications

Jaggar has authored a large number of widely cited papers, most notably "Love and knowledge: Emotion in feminist epistemology", published in 1989. Jaggar has also acted as co-editor for the first issue of Telos, and was a co-founder and associate editor of Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy from 2006 to 2008. [4]

Jaggar has written one book, edited seven books, and co-authored two:

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  4. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 "Curriculum Vitae" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2014-02-25.
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