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Rae Helen Langton (born 1961) is an Australian and British professor of philosophy in the Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Cambridge, and taught previously at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She has published widely on Immanuel Kant's philosophy, moral philosophy, political philosophy, metaphysics, and feminist philosophy. She is also well-known for her work on questions about the ethics of pornography and objectification.


Template:EngvarBTemplate:Use dmy dates Template:Infobox philosopher Rae Helen Langton, FBA (born 14 February 1961) is an Australian and British professor of philosophy. She is currently the Knightbridge Professor of Philosophy at the University of Cambridge. She has published widely on Immanuel Kant's philosophy, moral philosophy, political philosophy, metaphysics, and feminist philosophy. She is also well known for her work on pornography and objectification.

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Life, education and career

Langton was born in 1961 in Ludhiana, India to David Langton and his wife Valda. They were lay missionaries. She attended Hebron School, Coonoor and Ootacamund, India. In 1980 she moved to Australia and attended the University of New England. In 1981 she enrolled at the University of Sydney where she majored in philosophy.<ref name="cambridge.academia">{{

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}}</ref> There she became interested in Kant. Her Honours thesis argued that Kant's scientific realism did not fit with his idealism.<ref name=Gardner2011>Template:Cite book</ref> She graduated with First Class Honours in 1986. She was one of a group of women honours graduates at the time encouraged to continue their studies by applying to graduate school in the United States.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> In 1986 Langton moved to the United States and began graduate work at Princeton University in the philosophy department.<ref name="cambridge.academia"/> While studying social philosophy at Princeton she became interested in the philosophical debates on free speech and pornography.<ref name=Gardner2011/>

In 1990, before writing her PhD thesis, Langton moved back to Australia. From 1990-98 she was a Lecturer and Senior Lecturer in the Philosophy department of Monash University in Melbourne.<ref name=Gardner2011/>

Langton received her PhD in 1995 from Princeton.<ref name="cambridge.academia"/> Her thesis advisor was Margaret Dauler Wilson;<ref name=Gardner2011/> and her thesis topic was Kantian Humility.<ref>{{

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In 1998 Langton was a Fellow in the Research School of Social Sciences at the Australian National University. She moved to the United Kingdom in 1998. From 1998 to 1999 she was a lecturer at Sheffield University. From 1999 to 2004 she was Professor of Moral Philosophy at the University of Edinburgh. From 2004 to 2013 she was back in the United States as a Professor in the Department of Linguistics and Philosophy at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.<ref name="cambridge.academia"/>

In 2012 she was one of several philosophers who submitted evidence to the Leveson Inquiry into press ethics.<ref>{{

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She was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in October 2013.<ref>Template:Cite press release</ref>

In 2013 she joined the Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Cambridge and became a Fellow of Newnham College, Cambridge. In 2014, she was elected a Fellow of the British Academy, the United Kingdom's national academy for the humanities and social sciences.<ref>http://www.britac.ac.uk/users/professor-rae-langton</ref> She gave the John Locke Lectures on 'Accommodating Injustice' at Oxford University in 2015.<ref name="cambridge.academia"/>

In 2017 she was appointed to the Knightbridge Professor of Philosophy at Cambridge, the first woman to hold this professorship.<ref>http://www.phil.cam.ac.uk/langton-knightbridge</ref>

She is married to fellow philosopher Richard Holton.<ref name="cambridge.academia"/>

Philosophical work

In 1990, in response to Ronald Dworkin's Is There a Right to Pornography?,<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref> Langton published Whose right? Ronald Dworkin, Women, and Pornographers.<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref> In it she argued that the positions Dworkin takes on segregation and affirmative action are not consistent with his position in defence of pornography.<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref> The paper was voted one of the ten best articles in philosophy that year.<ref>{{

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}}</ref> In 1993 she published her paper Speech Acts and Unspeakable Acts.<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref>

According to Mary Kate McGowan, "Rather than focus on the harms allegedly caused, Langton explores the hypothesis that pornography actually constitutes harm."<ref name=McGowan2009>Template:Cite journal</ref>

Her first book, Kantian Humility: Our Ignorance of Things in Themselves,<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> is based on her thesis. According to one reviewer, "In this perspective there is no idealism in Kant, rather what Langton calls epistemic humility."<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref> Another reviewer described the book as "one of the most original and thought-provoking books on Kant to have appeared for quite some time."<ref name=Walker2002>Template:Cite journal</ref>

Many of the papers she published from 1990-99 were collected in her 2009 book, Sexual Solipsism: Philosophical Essays on Pornography and Objectification, along with her responses to some of her critics.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> Regarding this book, Wellesley College philosophy professor Mary Kate McGowan wrote in Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews that "...Langton's crisp, clear, and careful argumentation proves that philosophy has much to offer the socially, politically and even legally charged issues addressed here... This is feminist scholarship at its very best. It's first-rate philosophy."<ref name=McGowan2009/> Langton has written more than fifty articles about subjects ranging from feminist approaches to pornography, to animal ethics, to hate speech.<ref name="cambridge.academia"/>

Awards and honours

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"Some, it seems, have their attitudes and behavior altered by it in ways that ultimately hurt women: they can become more likely to view women as inferior, more disposed to accept rape myths (for example, that women enjoy rape), more likely to view rape victims as deserving of their treatment, and more likely to say that they themselves would rape if they could get away with it. So I interpret the available evidence. See Edward Donnerstein, Daniel Linz, and Steven Penrod, [[The Question of Pornography : Research Findings and Policy Implications (New York: Free Press; London: Coller Macmillan, 1987)."




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