Samia Hesni
Associate Professor of Philosophy
I work in philosophy of language, feminist philosophy, and social and political philosophy. I am increasingly thinking about philosophy of film, philosophy of psychology, cognitive science, queer theory, and the places where those areas overlap.
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Education
- PhD Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- MA Tufts University
- BA Amherst College
Selected Publications
Stereotypes and Scripts: How Language Shapes and Resists Expectations. Oxford University Press. 2025
"Philosophical Intuitions about Socially Significant Terms." Hypatia. 2024
"Generics and Social Justice." Philosophical Studies. 2023
"How to Disrupt a Social Script." Journal of the American Philosophical Association. 2023
"Normative Generics and Social Kind Terms." Inquiry. 2022
"Generics as Instructions." Synthese. 2021
"Normative Generics: Against Polysemy." Thought. 2021
"Illocutionary Frustration." Mind. 2018.