Charlotte Witt is a contemporary analytic philosopher at the University of New Hampshire whose work bridges Aristotelian metaphysics and feminist philosophy. She is best known for developing 'uniessentialism,' the view that gender is a mega-social role that unifies an individual's other social positions, making it the most fundamental social category for personal identity. Her scholarship integrates classical substance theory with contemporary social ontology.
Developed 'uniessentialism' — the theory that gender functions as a mega-social role unifying all other social roles a person occupies
Authored The Metaphysics of Gender (2011), a foundational text in feminist social ontology
Authored Substance and Essence in Aristotle (1989), a major scholarly study of Aristotelian form and matter
Argued that essentialism about gender is compatible with — and explanatorily superior to — purely constructivist accounts
Contributed to debates on social individuation and the ontological status of gender categories