Langton, Prof. Rae Helen
PhD; FBA 2014
Born Ludhiana, India 14 Feb. 1961 m Richard Holton
Knightbridge Professor of Philosophy, University of Cambridge, since 2017 (Professor of Philosophy, 2013–17); Fellow, Newnham College, Cambridge, since 2013
Education
Hebron Sch., Coonoor and Ootacamund, India; Univ. of New England, NSW; Univ. of Sydney (BA 1st Cl. Hons 1986); Princeton Univ. (PhD 1995)
Career
Lectr, then Sen. Lectr, Monash Univ., 1990–98; Fellow in Philosophy, Res. Sch. of Social Scis, ANU (on secondment), 1997–98; Lectr, Sheffield Univ., 1998–99; Professor: of Moral Philosophy, Univ. of Edinburgh, 1999–2004; Dept of Linguistics and Philosophy, MIT, 2004–13. Visiting Professor: Dartmouth Coll., NH, 2001; Yale Univ., 2009; Cambridge Univ., 2012; Visiting Fellow: Res. Sch. of Social Scis, ANU, 2003; All Souls Coll., Oxford, 2015
Publications
Kantian Humility: our ignorance of things in themselves, 1998; Sexual Solipsism: philosophical essays on pornography and objectification, 2009; contribs to jls incl. Philosophy, Philosophy and Public Affairs, Canadian Jl Law and Jurisprudence, Australasian Jl Philosophy, Kantian Rev., Philosophical Rev.
Address
Faculty of Philosophy, University of Cambridge, Sidgwick Avenue, Cambridge CB3 9DA
