Sandra Laugier

Sandra Laugier is a French philosopher, who works on moral philosophy, political philosophy, philosophy of language, gender studies, and popular culture. She is a full professor of philosophy (classe exceptionnelle, University Professor) at the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne and a Senior member of the Institut Universitaire de France. She currently serves as the deputy director of the Institut des sciences juridique et philosophique de la Sorbonne (Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne/CNRS). In 2014, she received the title of the Chevalier de la Légion d’honneur. In 2022, she was awarded the Grand Prix Moron by the Académie française. Laugier received Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches (HDR) from the Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne (1997) and PhD from Paris-Sorbonne University (1990). She was a visiting graduate student at Harvard University and an undergraduate student at the Ecole Normale Supérieure. Laugier has held several positions at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), including Deputy Director of the Division for Humanities and Social Sciences (INSHS) from 2010 to 2017 and a Special Adviser “Science in Society” to the President of CNRS from 2016 to 2017. One of the founders of the Institut du Genre at the CNRS, Laugier served as its President from 2012 to 2018 and as the President of the Scientific Council from 2018 to 2022. She has also served as an expert for the European Commission and as a panelist for the European Research Council (ERC). Laugier is the author of numerous publications on ordinary language philosophy (Ludwig Wittgenstein, John L. Austin), moral philosophy (moral perfectionism, ethics of care), American philosophy (Stanley Cavell, Henry David Thoreau, Ralph Waldo Emerson), gender studies, popular culture (TV series), and, more recently, on democracy and civil disobedience. She is the French translator of most of Stanley Cavell’s work and is one of his estate's executors.