Professor Jennifer Saul
MA, PhD Princeton; BA Rochester
School of History, Philosophy and Digital Humanities
Honorary Professor
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- Profile
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Jenny's primary interests are in Philosophy of Language, Feminism, Philosophy of Race, and Philosophy of Psychology. She is currently working on racism in political speech, a topic which has kept her extremely busy recently. (In addition to academic papers (which can be found at her academia.edu page, she has written many articles on this topic for a broader audience.)
- Research interests
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Jenny's most recent book was Lying, Misleading and What is Said: An Exploration in Philosophy of Language and in Ethics (Oxford University Press 2012). This argues that considering the distinction between lying and misleading-- which seems to many an ethically significant one-- can help to shed new light on methodological disputes in philosophy of language over notions like what is said, semantic content, assertion, impliciture, and expliciture. She also argues that careful attention to the way that communication works can shed new light on the ethical issues. (And she considers some fascinating real-world cases, feeding her lifelong obsession with political scandals but also branching out into such excellent topics as the Jesuit doctrine of Mental Reservation.)
With Helen Beebee, she published a report for the British Philosophical Association and SWIP UK entitled "Women in Philosophy in the UK: A Report". This report presents the first ever study of the gender imbalance in UK philosophy and provides a list of recommendations to combat it. Also with Helen Beebee, she authored guidelines for good practice on gender issues in philosophy-- these can be found at the BPA website, as the BPA/SWIP Good Practice Scheme.
- Publications
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Books
- Lying, Misleading, and What is Said. OUP Oxford.
- Simple sentences, substitution, and intuitions. Clarendon Press.
- Feminism: Issues and Arguments. Oxford University Press.
Edited books
- Implicit Bias and Philosophy Volume 2. Oxford University Press.
- Implicit Bias and Philosophy Volume 1. Oxford University Press.
Journal articles
- . Aristotelean Society Supplementary Volume, 93(1), 1-23.
- . Disputatio, 10(50), 217-244.
- . Philosophical Topics, 45(2), 97-116.
- Why So Few Women in Value Journals? How Could We Find Out?. Public Affairs Quarterly, 31(2), 125-141.
- . Inquiry.
- . Journal of Applied Philosophy, 31(3), 307-321.
- . Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 26(9), 2063-2069.
- . Disputatio, 5(37), 243-263.
- . Jurisprudence.
- . Analysis.
- . Intercultural Pragmatics.
- . Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, 80(1), 119-143.
- . Hypatia: a journal of feminist philosophy.
- . Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society.
- Objectification, pornography, and the history of the vibrator. NOUV QUEST FEM, 24(1), 38-+.
- . Philosophical Studies, 111(1), 1-41.
- Speaker meaning, what is said and what is implicated. NOUS, 36(2), 228-248.
- What is said and psychological reality: Grice's project and relevance theorists' criticisms. LINGUIST PHILOS, 25(3), 347-372.
- Sexual harassment: Issues and answers. EUR J PHILOS, 10(1), 139-142.
- Thinking about sexual harassment: A guide for the perplexed. EUR J PHILOS, 10(1), 139-142.
- . Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society.
- Implicature: Intention, convention, and principle in the failure of Gricean theory. NOUS, 35(4), 630-641.
- Implicature: Intention, convention in the failure of Gricean theory. PHILOS QUART, 50(201), 542-545.
- . Analysis, 60(267), 255-257.
- Did Clinton say something false? (William Jefferson Clinton, aspect-sensitivity). ANALYSIS, 60(3), 255-257.
- . Analysis, 60(267), 255-257.
- The road to hell: Intentions and propositional attitude ascription. MIND LANG, 14(3), 356-375.
- Substitution, simple sentences, and sex scandals. ANALYSIS, 59(2), 106-112.
- . Canadian Journal of Philosophy, 29(1), 29-47.
- The pragmatics of attitude ascription (Belief reporting, language, thought). PHILOS STUD, 92(3), 363-389.
- . Analysis, 57(2), 114-118.
- Substitution and simple sentences - Reply to Forbes. ANALYSIS, 57(2), 114-118.
- Substitution and simple sentences. ANALYSIS, 57(2), 102-108.
- . Analysis, 57(2), 114-118.
- . The Philosophical Review, 105(2), 262-262.
- . Linguistics and Philosophy: a journal of natural language syntax, semantics, logic, pragmatics, and processing.
- Implicit Bias and Reform Efforts in Philosophy: A Defence. Philosophical Topics.
- Enlightened? As If!. International Journal of Philosophical Studies, 18(4).
- Ranking Exercises in Philosophy and Implicit Bias. Journal of Social Philosophy, 43(3).
Chapters
- Immigration in the Brexit Campaign: Protean Dogwhistles and Political Manipulation In Saunders J & Fox C (Ed.), Media Ethics, Free Speech, and the Requirements of Democracy Routledge
- Dogwhistles, Political Manipulation, and Philosophy of Language In Fogal D, Harris DW & Moss M (Ed.), New Work on Speech Acts
- Negligent Falsehood, White Ignorance, and False News In Stokke A & Michaelson E (Ed.), Lying: Language, Knowledge, and Ethics Oxford University Press
- Beyond Just Silencing and Censorship: A Call for Complexity in Discussions of Academic Free Speech In Lackey J (Ed.), Academic Freedom Oxford University Press
- Implicit Bias, Stereotype Threat, and Epistemic Injustice In Medina J, Kidd IJ & Polhaus G (Ed.), Routledge Handbook of Epistemic Injustice
- Philosophers Explicitly Associate Philosophy with Maleness In Saul J & Brownstein M (Ed.), Implicit Bias and Philosophy Volume 1 Oxford University PRess
- The heterogeneity of Implicit Bias In Saul J & Brownstein M (Ed.), Philosophy and Implicit Bias: Volume 1: Metaphysics and Epistemology, (pp. 80-103). Oxford University Press
- Conversational Implicature, Speaker Meaning, and Calculability, Meaning and Analysis: New Essays on H. Paul Grice Palgrave
- Routledge
- Politically Significant Terms and Philosophy of Language: Methodological Issues In Superson A (Ed.), Out of the Shadows: Analytic Feminist Contributions to Traditional Philosophy
Dictionary/encyclopaedia entries
- Feminist Philosophy of Language. In Stanford Encyclopaedia of Philosophy.
- Lying, Misleading, and What is Said. OUP Oxford.
- Research group
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Jenny has supervised PhD students working on names, indexicals,implicature, gender, sexual objectification, vagueness, indexicals, reference, justice, cosmopolitanism and feminism, epistemic/communicative injustice, semantic minimalism, lying, feminist philosophy of science, the family, philosophy of sex, and autonomy.
- Professional activities and memberships
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Jenny was Director of the (2011-2013) Leverhulme-funded Implicit Bias and Philosophy Project (link at the right). She has published two co-edited volumes on implicit bias with Michael Brownstein. and she continues to lecture widely on this topic to a range of audiences. She is especially interested in helping academic institutions find methods to combat both implicit and explicit biases, and she frequently advises on this topic.
Jenny is Director of the Society for Women in Philosophy UK, Chair of the Analysis Committee, and Co-Chair of the British Philosophical Association's Women in Philosophy Committee. She is on the Editorial Board for Symposia in Gender, Race, and Philosophy, and on the Analysis Committee.
Jenny is honoured to have received the 2011 Distinguished Woman Philosopher Award in Washington, DC; and to have been chosen as Mind Association President for 2019-20. But her proudest accomplishment is nonetheless having been a consultant on a zombie movie script.
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