Distinguished Lecture in Ethics: Sally Haslanger

The Ohio State Center for Ethics and Human Values' annual Distinguished Lecture in Ethics brings to campus leading ethicists and political philosophers who have demonstrated the value of ethical reflection beyond academia. Past speakers include Amartya Sen, Danielle Allen, Elizabeth Anderson, Miranda Fricker, Michele Moody-Adams, Tommie Shelby, and Andrew Light. For our 2025 Distinguished Lecture, CEHV is delighted to welcome Sally Haslanger (Ford Professor of Philosophy and Women's & Gender Studies, Massachusetts Institute of Technology). Haslanger's research interests encompass social and political philosophy, feminist theory, and critical race theory. She is the author of Resisting Reality: Social Construction and Social Critique (Oxford University Press, 2012), which was awarded a Joseph B. Gittler Award for philosophy of the social sciences. In her most recent book, Doing Justice to the Social (under contract with Oxford University Press), Haslanger develops an account of ideology that illuminates the role of culture in shaping social subjects and provides an account of social practices and social structures that calls attention to their materiality.