Jennifer Hornsby

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Jennifer Hornsby (born 1951) is a British philosopher with interests in the philosophies of mind, action, language, as well as feminist philosophy. Hornsby earned her PhD from the University of Cambridge under the direction of Bernard Williams. She taught at the University of Oxford for a number of years before moving to Birkbeck College, London.

Hornsby is well known for her opposition to orthodoxy in current analytic philosophy of mind, and for her use of J.L. Austin's Speech Act Theory to look at the effects of pornography.

She was president of the Aristotelian Society from 1996 to 1997.

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Monographs

  • Actions, (1980)
  • Simple Mindedness: A Defence of Naïve Naturalism in the Philosophy of Mind, (1997)

Edited Collections

  • Ethics: A Feminist Reader (with Elizabeth Frazer and Sabina Lovibond), ([[1992])
  • The Cambridge Companion to Feminism in Philosophy (with Miranda Fricker), (2000)
  • Reading Philosophy: Selected Texts with a Method fo Beginners (with Samuel Guttenplan and Christopher Janaway), (2002)
  • Reading Philosophy of Language: Selected Texts with Interactive Commentary (with Guy Longworth), (2005)
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