Philosopher

Jennifer Hornsby

Overview

Jennifer Hornsby, FBA (born 1951) is a British philosopher with interests in the philosophies of mind, action, language, as well as feminist philosophy. She is currently a professor at the School of Philosophy, Birkbeck, University of London. She is well known for her opposition to orthodoxy in current analytic philosophy of mind, and for her use of J. L. Austin's Speech Act Theory to look at the effects of pornography.

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Philosophers who discussed Jennifer Hornsby

• Miranda Fricker
• Nicla Vassallo

Ideas Jennifer Hornsby discusses

• Harvard University Press
• J. L. Austin
• University of Cambridge
• Fellow of the British Academy
• Donald Davidson (philosopher)
• University of Oxford
• American Academy of Arts and Sciences
• Feminist philosophy
• Action theory (philosophy)
• Bernard Williams
• Philosophy of language
• Philosophy of mind
• Birkbeck, University of London
• Aristotelian Society
• Miranda Fricker

Place in the tradition

Part of Metaphysical naturalism.

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