Moira Gatens is an Australian academic

feminist philosopher Feminist philosophy is an approach to philosophy from a feminist perspective and also the employment of philosophical methods to feminist topics and questions. Feminist philosophy involves both reinterpreting philosophical texts and methods in ...

and current

Challis Professor The Challis Professorship are professorships at the University of Sydney named in honour of John Henry Challis, an Anglo-Australian merchant, landowner and philanthropist, whose bequests to the University of Sydney allowed for their establishment ...

of Philosophy at the

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. She previously held the Spinoza Chair at the

University of Amsterdam The University of Amsterdam (abbreviated as UvA, nl, Universiteit van Amsterdam) is a public research university located in Amsterdam, Netherlands. The UvA is one of two large, publicly funded research universities in the city, the other being ...

, Netherlands.

Biography

Academic career

Gatens served as president of the

Australasian Association of Philosophy The Australasian Association of Philosophy (AAP) is the peak body for philosophy in Australasia. The chief purpose of the AAP is to promote philosophy in Australia, New Zealand, and Singapore. Among the means that it follows to achieve this end, ...

in 2011. She was appointed in her current position as Challis Professor of Philosophy in 2012. Gatens was elected Fellow of the

Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia The Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia (ASSA) is an independent, non-governmental organisation devoted to the advancement of knowledge and research in the social sciences. It has its origins in the Social Science Research Council of Austr ...

in 1999 and of the

Australian Academy of the Humanities The Australian Academy of the Humanities was established by Royal Charter in 1969 to advance scholarship and public interest in the humanities in Australia. It operates as an independent not-for-profit organisation partly funded by the Australia ...

in 2010.

Select publications

*''Feminism and Philosophy: Perspectives on Difference and Equality'' United Kingdom, Polity Press, 1991 *''Imaginary Bodies: Ethics, Power and Corporeality''. United Kingdom:

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, 1996. *''Feminist Interpretations of Benedict Spinoza''. United States:

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, 2009. *''Spinoza's Hard Path to Freedom''. Assen, Netherlands, Royal Van Gorcum, 2011.

References

External links

Moira Gatens
at University of Sydney

: ''Revisiting the Continental Shelf: Moira Gatens on Law, Religion, and Human Rights in Eliot, Feuerbach, and Spinoza''. *Laurie, Timothy (2019), 'Thinking Without Monsters: The Role of Philosophy in Moira Gatens' *Richardson-Self, Louise (2019), 'Reflections on Imagination and Embodiment in the Work of Moira Gatens, 1983-2008' {{DEFAULTSORT:Gatens, Moira Living people Fellows of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia University of New South Wales alumni Australian National University faculty Fellows of the Australian Academy of the Humanities University of Sydney faculty Australian women philosophers 20th-century Australian philosophers 21st-century Australian philosophers Postmodern feminists Feminist philosophers Political philosophers Spinoza scholars 1954 births

Biography

Academic career

Select publications

References

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