Professor Elizabeth Anderson FBA
- Fellow type
- International Fellow
- Year elected
- 2020
- Subjects
- Politics, Social Sciences
Summary
Professor Elizabeth Anderson specializes in moral, social and political philosophy, feminist theory, social epistemology, and the philosophy of economics and the social sciences. She is particularly interested in exploring the interactions of social science with moral and political theory, how we learn to improve our value judgments, the epistemic functions of emotions and democratic deliberation, and issues of race, gender, and equality.
She has written numerous articles on value theory, the ethical limitations of markets, facts and values in social scientific research, feminist and social epistemology, racial integration and affirmative action, rational choice and social norms, democratic theory, egalitarianism, and the history of ethics. Professor Anderson is currently working on the history of egalitarianism.
Professor Anderson is a MacArthur Fellow, a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a Fellow of the British Academy. She designed and was the first Director of the Program in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics at UM.
Current post
University of Michigan Max Shaye Professor of Public Philosophy, John Dewey Distinguished University Professor, Arthur F. Thurnau Professor
Past appointments
University of Michigan John Rawls Collegiate Professor of Philosophy and Women's Studies
2005 - 2013
University of Michigan Professor of Philosophy and Women's Studies
1995 - 2005
University of Michigan Adjunct Professor of Law
1995 - 2000
University of Michigan Associate Professor of Philosophy and Women's Studies
1993 - 1995
University of Michigan Assistant Professor of Philosophy
1987 - 1993
Swarthmore College Visiting Instructor in Philosophy
1985 - 1986
Harvard University Teaching Fellow
1983 - 1985
Publications
Hijacked: How Neoliberalism Turned the Work Ethic against Workers and How Workers Can Take It Back
Elizabeth Anderson - Published in 2023 by Cambridge University Press
Private Government: How Employers Rule Our Lives (and Why We Don't Talk about It)
Elizabeth Anderson - Published in 2017 by Princeton University Press
