Philosopher to Speak on Global Gender Justice in UA Lecture

TUSCALOOSA, Ala. — Dr. Alison M. Jaggar, professor of philosophy and women and gender studies at The University of Colorado at Boulder, will speak at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 27, in 205 Smith Hall, on The University of Alabama campus, as part of the Philosophy Today lecture series.

Jaggar will speak on “The Philosophical Challenges of Global Gender Justice.”

Jaggar was recently named College Professor of Distinction at Colorado. She established her reputation as a pioneer in feminist philosophy and a founder of the discipline of women and gender studies. During the 1990s, Jaggar’s research focused mainly on moral epistemology, exploring the possibility of cross-cultural social criticism in contexts of diversity and inequality.

For the past 10 years, Jaggar has been working in the area of global gender justice, investigating the gendered dimensions of the moral and political issues that are raised by increasing integration of the global economic and political order.

Her recent books include “Just Methods: An Interdisciplinary Feminist Reader” (Boulder, CO: Paradigm Press, 2007); “Abortion: Three Perspectives,” with Michael Tooley, Philip E. Devine and Celia Wolf-Devine (Oxford University Press, 2008); and “Thomas Pogge and his Critics” (Polity 2010).

The Philosophy Today series is sponsored by UA’s College of Arts and Sciences; the department of philosophy; a grant from Louis W. Perry of La Jolla, Calif.; and other alumni and friends of the department.

UA’s department of philosophy is part of UA’s College of Arts and Sciences, the University’s largest division and the largest liberal arts college in the state. Students from the College have won numerous national awards including Rhodes Scholarships, Goldwater Scholarships and memberships on the USA Today Academic All American Team.