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News: August/September 2020

Woman Philosopher of Year is Ann Garry • UNESCO invites public to comment on AI ethics rules • Steiner and Kohák dead — News reports by Anja Steinbauer

Woman Philosopher of 2020

Each year, the Society for Women in Philosophy honours one (usually Anglo-American) philosopher with the title Distinguished Woman Philosopher of the Year. It has now been announced that for 2020 this will be Ann Garry. She is emerita professor of philosophy at California State University, Los Angeles, where she created and ran the Center for the Study of Genders and Sexualities. Prof. Garry has long been among the pioneers of feminist philosophy, conducting research into applied ethics, reconsidering philosophy’s underlying methods from a feminist angle, and developing the concept known as intersectionality.

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