Samia Hesni
Associate Professor
Appointments
Associate Professor of Philosophy
Biography
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.
Education
PhD Massachusetts Institute of Technology
MA Tufts University
BA Amherst College
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.
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