Elizabeth S. Anderson

Department of Philosophy
University of Michigan
2239 Angell Hall
435 South State Street
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1003
Telephone: (734) 764-6285
Fax: (734) 763-8071
Email: eandersn at umich dot edu


I am Arthur F. Thurnau Professor and John Rawls Collegiate Professor of Philosophy and Women's Studies. I teach courses in ethics, social and political philosophy, philosophy of the social sciences, and feminist theory. Within these fields, my research has focused on democratic theory, equality in political philosophy and American law, racial integration, the ethical limits of markets, theories of value and rational choice (alternatives to consequentialism and economic theories of rational choice), the philosophies of John Stuart Mill and John Dewey, and feminist epistemology and philosophy of science.  I am currently working on the history of egalitarianism.

Research

The Imperative of Integration
By Elizabeth Anderson

Sample Chapter

Table of Contents

Précis of The Imperative of Integration in Poverty and Race 20.4 (2011), published by the Poverty and Race Research Action Council


Podcast interview of author by Robert Talisse, on New Books in Philosophy


Winner of the American Philosophical Association's 2011 Joseph B. Gittler Award, for "an outstanding scholarly contribution in the field of the philosophy of one or more of the social sciences."

For a complete listing of my publications, see my vita.
For a more detailed look at selected publications, see my abstracts.
For access to full texts of selected publications, see my Full-text links.
To order my first book, Value in Ethics and Economics, go here.

Teaching

Fall 2011:       PHIL 359: Law and Philosophy
                  
Winter 2012: PPE 300/PHIL 366: Intro to Political Economy/Political Philosophy
                       PHIL 576: Topics in Social-Political Philosophy

Service

Chair of Undergraduate Studies in Philosophy.
Director of the Philosophy, Politics, and Economics Program.
Associate Editor of the feminist philosophy journal Hypatia.

More of My Work Online 

Occasional Pieces

"The War at Home," Democracy 21 (2011) Symposium on the 9/11 Decade

Elizabeth Anderson and David Schmidtz talk about equality on Philosophy TV

Elizabeth Anderson debates Jason Brennan & David Schmidtz about Positive Liberty on Consider

Left2Right archived blog entries:   all ¦ political economy only

Reference Works

Annotated Bibliography on Race, Gender, and Affirmative Action

The Geography of Race in the U.S. (with Jeff Jones)

Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, John Dewey's Moral Philosophy

Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, "Feminist Epistemology and Philosophy of Science"

"How not to Criticize Feminist Epistemology: Review of Pinnick, Koertge, and Almeder's Scrutinizing Feminist Epistemology"






This page last modified on September 9, 2011.