Keynote

Professor Jennifer Saul

Jenny Saul is Professor of Social and Political Philosophy of Language at the University of Waterloo, Canada. Before that, she was Professor of Philosophy at the University of Sheffield, where she worked for 24 years. Originally American, she has found her research recently dominated by trying to understand some of the linguistic mechanisms at work in the rise of the far right, especially in the US and the UK. She has published a number of papers on this topic. Jenny has also published several books: Feminism: Issues and Arguments (Oxford University Press 2003); Substitution, Simple Sentences, and Intuitions (Oxford University Press 2007); Lying, Misleading, and What is Said: An Exploration in Philosophy of Language and in Ethics (Oxford University Press 2012); and two volumes co-edited with Michael Brownstein: Implicit Bias and Philosophy Volumes I and II (Oxford University Press 2016). Jenny has also done a lot of work on improving conditions for women in philosophy, founding the blogs Feminist Philosophers and What is it Like to be a Woman in Philosophy, and directing the Society for Women in Philosophy UK 2009-2019. She co-authored the BPA/SWIP Good Practice Scheme for Women in Philosophy, with Helen Beebee. Jenny's proudest accomplishment is having served as philosophical consultant on a zombie movie script.