Prof. Rae Langton, Ph.D.
Visiting Fellow, CAS Research Group “The Ontogeny of Normativity”
University of Cambridge
Philosophy
Rae Langton is Knightbridge Professor of Philosophy at the University of Cambridge and Fellow of Newnham College. She is a philosopher, with a particular interest in speech, speech acts and social justice. She works in moral and political philosophy, history of philosophy, metaphysics, philosophy of law, speech act theory, and feminist philosophy.
Rae Langton is author of Kantian Humility: Our Ignorance of Things in Themselves (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1998), and Sexual Solipsism: Philosophical Essays on Pornography and Objectification (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009).
Rae Langton is a Visiting Fellow at CAS from January to April 2022 in the context of the CAS Research Focus “Empathy” and at the invitation of Prof. Dr. Monika Betzler. She is also a Visiting Scholar as part of the strategic partnership between the University of Cambridge and LMU Munich. On January 27, 2022, she will give a lecture on “Empathy and Objectification” as part of the CAS lecture series “Arts and Skills of Empathy”.
In December 2024 and in March/April 2025 she is again Visiting Fellow at CAS: At the invitation of Prof. Dr. Markus Paulus she is a member of his CAS Research Group “The Ontogeny of Normativity”.
