Rae Helen Langton

Rae Helen Langton
Born	1961 Ludhiana, India
Spouse(s)	Richard Holton
Era	Contemporary philosophy
Region	Western Philosophy
School	Analytic philosophy
Main interests	Kant, feminist philosophy, metaphysics
Notable ideas	pornography as speech act

Rae Helen Langton (born 1961) is an Australian and British professor of philosophy in the Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Newnham College. She has previously taught at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, University of Edinburgh, and Monash University. She has published widely on Immanuel Kant's philosophy, moral philosophy, political philosophy, metaphysics, and feminist philosophy. She is also well known for her work on pornography and objectification.

Langton was born in 1961 in Ludhiana, India. She attended Hebron School, Coonoor and Ootacamund, India. In 1980 she moved to Australia and attended the University of New England. In 1981 she enrolled at the University of Sydney where she majored in philosophy. There she became interested in Kant. Her Honours thesis argued that Kant's scientific realism did not fit with his idealism. She graduated with First Class Honours in 1986. She was one of a group of women honours graduates at the time encouraged to continue their studies by applying to graduate school in the United States. In 1986 Langton moved to the United States and began graduate work at Princeton University in the philosophy department. While studying social philosophy at Princeton she became interested in the philosophical debates on free speech and pornography.

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