Samia Hesni

|Associate Professor
Academic Appointments

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.

Personal Website

Contact

Samia.Hesni@dartmouth.edu
Thornton, Room 212
HB 6035

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.