Professor of Philosophy Jennifer Hansen was recently a guest on several episodes of a popular philosophy podcast, The Partially Examined Life, which discusses philosophy, philosophers and philosophical texts.
Hansen’s episodes focus on various parts of French writer Simone de Beauvoir’s The Second Sex (1949) and on American philosopher Judith Butler’s Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity (1990).
- Episode 232: What is the existential situation of the woman?
- Episode 234: What is romance?
- Episode 235: Are gender and sex socially constructed, and if so, how?
Hansen’s research interests include the philosophy of psychiatry, feminist philosophy, American pragmatism (John Dewey and William James), and phenomenology. Hansen regularly teaches Ancient Greek Philosophy, Africana Philosophy, Introduction to Philosophy, and in the First-Year Program.
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