Sandra Laugier

Sandra Laugier
Sandra Laugier
Era	21st-century philosophy
Region	Western Philosophers
School	Analytic Philosophy, Ethics, Philosophy of language, Feminism
Main interests	Philosophy of language, Moral philosophy, Pragmatics, Ethics of care
Influences Wittgenstein, J.L. Austin, Quine
Influenced Tristan Garcia

Sandra Laugier is a French philosopher, working on moral philosophy, political philosophy, philosophy of language, philosophy of action and philosophy of science. She is currently a full professor of philosophy at the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, a Senior member of the Institut Universitaire de France, and a scientific deputy director at the Institute for Humanities and Social Sciences (INSHS, Institut des sciences humaines et sociales) at the French National Centre for Scientific Research, after being a professor at the University of Picardie Jules Verne in Amiens until 2010.

She has studied at Ecole Normale Supérieure and at Harvard University. She is director of the Center for Contemporary Philosophy, Institut des sciences juridique et philosophique de la Sorbonne (UMR 8103, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne/CNRS).

She has extensively published on ordinary language philosophy (Ludwig Wittgenstein, John L. Austin), moral philosophy (moral perfectionism, ethics of care), American philosophy (Stanley Cavell, Henry David Thoreau, Ralph Waldo Emerson), gender studies, popular culture (TV series), and more recently about democracy and civil disobedience. She is the French translator of most of Stanley Cavell’s work.