Elizabeth S. Anderson

Elizabeth Secor Anderson (born 5 December 1959) is an American philosopher. She is Arthur F. Thurnau Professor and John Dewey Distinguished University Professor of Philosophy and Women's Studies at the University of Michigan and specializes in political philosophy, ethics, and feminist philosophy.[1]

Elizabeth S. Anderson
Born (1959-12-05) December 5, 1959
United States
Alma materHarvard University, Swarthmore College
AwardsGuggenheim Fellowship; MacArthur Fellows Program
EraContemporary philosophy
RegionWestern philosophy
SchoolAnalytic, pragmatism
InstitutionsUniversity of Michigan
Doctoral advisorJohn Rawls

Education and career

Raised in Manchester, Connecticut, Anderson graduated from Manchester High School in 1977. Her father, an engineer for United Technologies, got her interested in philosophy by reading John Stuart Mill and Plato with her.[2]

Anderson received a B.A. with high honors in philosophy with a minor in economics from Swarthmore College in 1981. In 1987 Anderson completed a Ph.D. in Philosophy at Harvard University. She was a visiting instructor of philosophy at Swarthmore College 1985–86 and took up a position at the University of Michigan in 1987. She was Associate Professor of Philosophy and Women's Studies 1993–1999 and was promoted to professor in 1999. In 1994, she was named Arthur F. Thurnau Professor to recognize her dedication to undergraduate education with a demonstrable impact on the intellectual development and lives of her students. In 2005 she was named John Rawls Collegiate Professor of Philosophy and Women's Studies, and in 2013 the John Dewey Distinguished University Professor of Philosophy and Women's Studies.

Anderson was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2008.[3] In 2013, Anderson received a Guggenheim Fellowship to support her work.[4] Anderson was named a Progress Medal Laureate in February 2018 by the Society for Progress for her book Private Government: How Employers Rule Our Lives (and Why We Don't Talk about It).[5] In 2019, she received a "Genius Grant" from the MacArthur Fellows Program.

Philosophical work

Anderson's research covers topics in social philosophy, political philosophy and ethics, including: democratic theory, equality in political philosophy and American law, racial integration, the ethical limits of markets, theories of value and rational choice (alternatives to consequentialism and economic theories of rational choice), the philosophies of John Stuart Mill and John Dewey, and feminist epistemology and philosophy of science.[6]

Anderson's most cited work is her article in the Ethics journal, titled 'What is the Point of Equality'.[7] Within the article, she harshly criticises Luck Egalitarianism: a contemporaneously popular view espoused by writers such as Ronald Dworkin. She advocates for a more relational understanding of equality founded upon democratic principles.[8]

Anderson's book The Imperative of Integration,[9] was winner of the American Philosophical Association's 2011 Joseph B. Gittler Award, for "an outstanding scholarly contribution in the field of the philosophy of one or more of the social sciences."[10] She is also author of Value in Ethics and Economics,[11] and dozens of articles.[12]

Personal life

Anderson is married to David R. Jacobi, a medical doctor practicing in Detroit, Michigan. The couple have two children named Sean and Benjamin.[8]

Bibliography

Books
  • Anderson, Elizabeth (1993). Value in ethics and economics. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press. ISBN 9780674931909.
  • Anderson, Elizabeth (2013). Imperative of integration. S.l: Princeton Univ Press. ISBN 9780691158112.
  • Anderson, Elizabeth; Maitra, Ishani (2013). Law & philosophy. Dubuque, IA: Kendall Hunt Publishing Co. ISBN 9781465229335.
  • Anderson, Elizabeth (2017). Private Government: How Employers Rule Our Lives (and Why We Don't Talk about It). Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. ISBN 9780691176512.

Chapters in books
  • Anderson, Elizabeth S. (2000). "Contribution". In Kleindienst, Thérèse (ed.). Le livre et l'art: études offertes en hommage à Pierre Lelièvre. Villeurbanne Paris: Presses de l'Enssib Somogy. ISBN 9782850564055.
  • Anderson, Elizabeth S. (2004). "Feminist epistemology and philosophy of science". In Zalta, Edward N. (ed.). The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Summer 2004 Edition).
  • Anderson, Elizabeth S. (2005). "Feminist epistemology: an interpretation and a defense". In Cudd, Ann E.; Andreasen, Robin O. (eds.). Feminist theory: a philosophical anthology. Oxford, UK Malden, Massachusetts: Blackwell Publishing. pp. 188–209. ISBN 9781405116619.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
  • Anderson, Elizabeth S. (2010). "Justifying the capabilities approach to justice". In Robeyns, Ingrid; Brighouse, Harry (eds.). Measuring justice: primary goods and capabilities. Cambridge England New York: Cambridge University Press. pp. 81–100. ISBN 9780521711470.

Selected journal articles
gollark: Possible contamination of the noösphere. Or issues with the field systems, in fact.
gollark: The words are composed genderlessly within facilities but unfortunately gain gender through poorly understood gender field interactions after exit.
gollark: At GTech™ there are in fact memetic fields removing the concept of gender from all GTech™ facilities, which cannot* go wrong.
gollark: Unfortunately, being linked to reproduction and whatever, it seems to be wired into lots of random brain features.
gollark: Anyway, ideally, for some purposes, we wouldn't associate gender with tons of weird things as is currently done.

References
  1. "Elizabeth Anderson | U-M LSA Philosophy". lsa.umich.edu. Retrieved 2018-04-10.
  2. Dunne, Susan (25 September 2019). "Glastonbury poet Ocean Vuong and Manchester philosopher Elizabeth Anderson win 2019 MacArthur 'genius grants'". Hartford Courant. Hartford, Connecticut. Retrieved 25 September 2019.
  3. "Professor Elizabeth S. Anderson". American Academy of Arts & Sciences. Archived from the original on 6 January 2017. Retrieved 3 April 2014. Fellow elected 2008
  4. "Elizabeth S. Anderson". John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Archived from the original on 1 April 2014. Retrieved 3 April 2014.
  5. societyforprogress.org. "The Medals | Society for Progress". societyforprogress.org. Retrieved 2018-04-10.
  6. "Elizabeth Anderson". Department of Philosophy, University of Michigan. Archived from the original on 11 June 2015. Retrieved 3 April 2014.
  7. Anderson, Elizabeth S (January 1999). "What is the point of equality?". Ethics. 109 (2): 287–337. doi:10.1086/233897. JSTOR 10.1086/233897.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
  8. Heller, Nathan (2019). "The Philosopher Redefining Equality". The New Yorker. Retrieved 27 January 2019.
  9. Anderson, Elizabeth (2013). Imperative of integration. S.l: Princeton Univ Press. ISBN 9780691158112.
  10. "Joseph B. Gittler Award - Previous Winners". The American Philosophical Association. Retrieved 3 April 2014.
  11. Anderson, Elizabeth (1993). Value in ethics and economics. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press. ISBN 9780674931909.
  12. "Works by Elizabeth Anderson". The PhilPapers Foundation. Retrieved 3 April 2014.
External video
On Contact: Tyranny of the corporate workplace – Elizabeth Anderson on YouTube


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