Jennifer Hornsby
Jennifer Hornsby | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1951 |
| Education | |
| Doctoral advisor | Bernard Williams |
| Philosophical work | |
| School | Analytic philosophy |
| Main interests | philosophy of mind, philosophy of action, feminist philosophy |
Jennifer Hornsby, FBA (born 1951) is a British philosopher with interests in the philosophies of mind, action, language, as well as feminist philosophy. She is currently a professor at the School of Philosophy, Birkbeck, University of London. She is well known for her opposition to orthodoxy in current analytic philosophy of mind, and for her use of J. L. Austin's Speech Act Theory to look at the effects of pornography.