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| Alma mater | Syracuse University Harvard University |
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| Institutions | University of Massachusetts Amherst |
| Language | English |
Louise M. Antony is an American philosopher who is professor of philosophy at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. She specializes in epistemology and feminist theory.
Antony received a bachelor's in philosophy from Syracuse University in 1975, [1] after which she went to Harvard University for her doctorate,which she received in 1981. [2] Her first academic position was at the University of Illinois,Urbana-Champaign,in 1980-81. She taught at Boston University from 1981 to 1983;Bates College from 1983 to 1986;North Carolina State University from 1986 to 1993;the University of North Carolina,Chapel Hill from 1993 to 2000;and the Ohio State University from 2000 to 2006,when she moved to the University of Massachusetts Amherst. [2]
Louise Antony is married to fellow philosopher Joseph Levine and is the mother of Bay Area musician Rachel Lark. [3]
Antony is a proponent of analytic feminist philosophy,suggesting that earlier feminist philosophers overlooked the extent to which analytic philosophers had rejected the ideas of empiricists and rationalists,and thus misidentified analytic epistemology with empiricism. [4] [5]
Antony has written a number of peer-reviewed papers,book reviews,and essays. [2] She has also edited and introduced three volumes:Philosophers Without Gods (Oxford University Press,2007),a collection of essays by leading philosophers reflecting on their life without religious faith;Chomsky and His Critics,with Norbert Hornstein (Blackwell Publishing Company,2003);and,with Charlotte Witt,A Mind of One's Own:Feminist Essays on Reason and Objectivity (Westview Press,1993),which was expanded in 2002 in a second edition. [6]
Other selected essays include "Natures and Norms", [7] "Multiple Realization:Keeping it Real","Atheism as Perfect Piety For the Love of Reason","Everybody Has Got It:A Defense of Non-Reductive Materialism in the Philosophy of Mind",and,with Rebecca Hanrahan,"Because I Said So:Toward a Feminist Theory of Authority". [2]
In addition to her academic work,Antony has spoken out about the oppressive climate for women in philosophy. She wrote one of a series of articles in the New York Times's Opinionator column in the fall of 2013, [8] and in 2011 co-founded with Ann Cudd the Mentoring Project for Junior Women in Philosophy. [9] In 2015-16 she served as president of the eastern division of the American Philosophical Association.
In 2008,Antony debated Christian apologist William Lane Craig on the topic "Is God Necessary for Morality?".
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