Jennifer Saul
(BA, University of Rochester, USA; MA, PhD, Princeton University, USA)
Jennifer joined the department in 1995. Her primary interests are in Philosophy of Language and Feminism. She has just published a book, Simple Sentences, Substitution, and Intuitions (Oxford University Press 2007). This book builds on earlier work in which she argued that substitution puzzles-- a central issue in philosophy of language for quite some time-- are much more widespread than has previously been thought. In the book, she expands on these arguments and argues that they show a need for a new, more psychologically-based approach to intuitions in philosophy of language. She has also written several papers on conversational implicature and what is said, and she is beginning a new project on the lying/misleading distinction. The book Jenny is writing on this topic argues that focussing on this distinction-- which seems to many an ethically significant one-- can help to shed new light on methodological disputes in philosophy of language over notions like what is said, semantic content, assertion, impliciture, and expliciture. She also argues that careful attention to the way that communication works can shed new light on the ethical issues. Her work on this book is funded in part by an AHRC research leave grant. In feminism, she has written on pornography, objectification, gender and even the history of the vibrator, and she has published Feminism: Issues and Arguments (Oxford University Press 2003). Much of Jenny's recent work was funded by her Phillip Leverhulme Prize.
Jenny is Co-Editor for Feminism entries for the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, and on the Editorial Board for Symposia in Gender, Race, and Philosophy. She is on the Executive Committee for the Aristotelian Society and the Society for Women in Philosophy, and on the Analysis Committee.
Jenny has supervised PhD students working on names, implicature, gender, sexual objectification, vagueness, indexicals, reference, justice, and autonomy. She runs the Feminism reading group every semester, and sometimes she also runs a philosophy of language reading group.
Contact
email : j.saul@sheffield.ac.uk
Recent publications
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