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    Rae Langton

    contemporaryAnalytic Philosophy

    b. 1961

    Rae Langton is a British-Australian philosopher known for her influential work on Kant's metaphysics and epistemology, feminist philosophy, and the philosophy of language. She is Knightbridge Professor of Philosophy at the University of Cambridge and has contributed significantly to debates on objectification, pornography, and speech acts.

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    Notable Achievements

    1

    Authored Kantian Humility: Our Ignorance of Things in Themselves (1998), a landmark reinterpretation of Kant's distinction between phenomena and noumena

    2

    Developed influential analyses of pornography as illocutionary speech act silencing women, extending Austin's speech act theory

    3

    Advanced the theory of sexual objectification building on Kantian and feminist frameworks

    4

    Elected Fellow of the British Academy and the Australian Academy of the Humanities

    5

    Serves as Knightbridge Professor of Philosophy at the University of Cambridge

    Positions & Arguments(3)

    Moral Responsibility

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    We cannot theoretically know that we are free.

    Free Will & Foreknowledge

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    We cannot theoretically know that we are free.

    Philosophy of Language

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    There is no viable conception of vector properties on which vector properties are both necessarily extrinsic and capable of being fundamental

    Modality & Possibility

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    There is no viable conception of vector properties on which vector properties are both necessarily extrinsic and capable of being fundamental

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    Allison's premise (6) is too weak to be a plausible reconstruction of Kant's non-spatiality thesis

    Perception

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    Allison's premise (6) is too weak to be a plausible reconstruction of Kant's non-spatiality thesis

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    Analytic Philosophy

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    Modality & Possibility2
    Free Will & Foreknowledge1
    Perception1
    Philosophy of Language1
    Moral Responsibility1

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