Natalie Stoljar is a contemporary analytic philosopher at McGill University known for her contributions to feminist philosophy, social ontology, and philosophy of language. Her work examines social construction, relational autonomy, and the metaphysics of social kinds. She is a leading voice in debates about how social structures shape identity, agency, and self-understanding.
Developed influential accounts of social construction and social kinds in analytic feminist philosophy
Co-edited 'Relational Autonomy: Feminist Perspectives on Autonomy, Agency, and the Social Self' (2000), a foundational text in feminist autonomy theory
Contributed to debates on substantive versus procedural theories of autonomy
Applied philosophy of language to feminist concerns about meaning, reference, and categorization
Advanced scholarship on the intersection of metaphysics and feminist social theory