Background
Rae Helen Langton was born on February 14, 1961, in Ludhiana, India, to David and Volda Langton.
2012
Rae Langton's Humanities Council Lectures October 2012
Rae Langton on speech acts and the silencing of women
Rae Langton at the American Academy of Arts & Sciences induction
The Panel (minus Emily): Jie, Natalie (chair), Pablo, Ellie, Aidan and Rae
Rae Langton's Humanities Council Lectures October 2012
University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
In 1986, Rae received a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Sydney in Australia.
Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08544, United States
Rae received a Doctor of Philosophy from Princeton University, New Jersey in 1995.
(Rae Langton offers a new interpretation and defense of Ka...)
Rae Langton offers a new interpretation and defense of Kant's doctrine of things in themselves. Kant distinguishes things in themselves from phenomena, and in so doing he makes a metaphysical distinction between intrinsic and relational properties of substances.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001LRPO2K/?tag=2022091-20
1998
(Rae Langton here draws together her ground-breaking work ...)
Rae Langton here draws together her ground-breaking work on pornography and objectification. On pornography she argues from uncontroversial liberal premises to the controversial feminist conclusions that pornography subordinates and silences women, and that women have rights against pornography.
https://www.amazon.com/Sexual-Solipsism-Philosophical-Pornography-Objectification/dp/0199551456/?tag=2022091-20
2009
Rae Helen Langton was born on February 14, 1961, in Ludhiana, India, to David and Volda Langton.
In 1986, Rae received a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Sydney in Australia, and a Doctor of Philosophy from Princeton University, New Jersey in 1995.
From 1990 to 1996, Langton was a lecture at Monash University in Clayton, Australia. She also was a fellow in philosophy, from 1997 to 1998, at the Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University in Canberra, Australia. In 1998, she became a member of philosophy faculty at the University of Sheffield.
Rae Langton has taught philosophy in Australia, Scotland, the USA, and England. She was Professor of Moral Philosophy at the University of Edinburgh from 1999-2004, a position for which David Hume had once been turned down. She also was Professor of Philosophy at MIT from 2004-2013.
In 2015 she gave the John Locke Lectures in Oxford’s Trinity Term, and for that period was Visiting Fellow at All Souls College. Rae was The Mind Senior Research Fellow for 2015-16. Rae Langton was elected to be the Knightbridge Professor of Philosophy on 1 August 2017.
Rae Langton is most commonly known as the first woman to hold the Knightbridge Professorship of Philosophy at the University of Cambridge. She has published widely on Immanuel Kant's philosophy, moral philosophy, political philosophy, metaphysics, and feminist philosophy. She is also well known for her work on pornography and objectification.
(Rae Langton offers a new interpretation and defense of Ka...)
1998(Rae Langton here draws together her ground-breaking work ...)
2009Langton has a long-standing interest in speech acts and social justice. Speech is not just a matter of making meaningful noises, but of doing things with words. With this in mind, is seen that certain forms of speech, including hate speech and some pornography, can subordinate people, altering social norms and authority patterns, and legitimating inequality. Some speech can also be silenced, by making certain speech acts difficult or impossible - for example, when ‘No’ doesn’t count as a sexual refusal. A speech act approach to language and social life prompts questions at the intersection of philosophy of language, politics and law; and sheds light on the politics of gender and race, hate and violence.
She has a project about empathy and imagination, and their role in aesthetics and ethics. Rae maintain a strong interest in Kant, which connects with her independent interest in the metaphysics of intrinsic properties. Drawing on Kant’s early background, and his physics, she argues that ignorance of things in themselves is not idealism, but epistemic humility: people cannot know the world’s intrinsic nature.
Langton was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2013, and to the British Academy in 2014.
In 1994, Rae married Richard Holton.