Below is the audio recording of Alison Jaggar’s John Dewey Lecture, “Academic Philosophy: What Is It? What Do We Want It To Be?,” given at the 2019 Central Division Meeting. The full text is available on the APA website (member sign-in is required) as well as on JSTOR.
The audio of the lecture is available here:
“Academic Philosophy: What Is It? What Do We Want It To Be?” by Alison Jaggar
Alison Jaggar is Professor Emerita at the University of Colorado-Boulder, where she taught from 1990 until her retirement in 2020. She earned her Ph.D. in philosophy from SUNY Buffalo. A pioneer in the field of feminist philosophy and the philosophy of gender, her areas of interest are contemporary social, moral, and political philosophy, often from a feminist perspective. Her books include Gender and Global Justice (Polity, 2014); Thomas Pogge and His Critics (Polity, 2010); Abortion: Three Perspectives, co-authored with Michael Tooley, Celia Wolf-Devine, and Philip E. Devine (OUP, 2009); and Just Methods: An Interdisciplinary Feminist Reader (Paradigm Press, 2008).
About this series: The Blog of the APA is pleased to publish the Presidential Addresses and John Dewey Lectures given at the Eastern, Central, and Pacific APA Division Meetings, which communicate the ideas and experiences that the renowned philosophers who delivered them felt are most important for people in the field to know. The Blog wishes to thank the APA leadership and Jeremy Cushing for their support and assistance in making these recordings available.
