Sandra Laugier
Sandra Laugier is Professor of Philosophy at Université Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne, Paris, France, Deputy Director of the Institut des sciences juridique et philosophique de la Sorbonne (UMR 8103, CNRS Paris 1).
She has extensively published on ordinary language philosophy (Wittgenstein, Austin, Cavell); moral philosophy and the ethics of care; democracy and civil disobedience, gender studies. Her recent work focuses on popular art and culture. She is the translator of most of Stanley Cavell’s work in French and is an advisor for the publication of Cavell’s Nachlass. She has been Visiting Professor at the School of Criticism and Theory (Cornell University, 2023), the University of Toronto (2022), La Sapienza Roma (2019), Boston University (2019, 2021), Pontifical University Lima (2017); Visiting Researcher at the Max Planck Institute Berlin (2014, 2015); Distinguished Visiting Professor at The Johns Hopkins University (2011); Facultés Saint-Louis, Bruxelles (2009); The Johns Hopkins University (2008, 2009).
Awards include: Senior Fellow of Institut Universitaire de France (2012-23), Chevalier de la Légion d’Honneur, (2014), Grand prix de philosophie, Académie française (2022), Member of the American Philosophical Society (2024).
Among her recent publications: Why We Need Ordinary Language Philosophy (The University of Chicago Press, 2013), Nos vies en séries, Ethique et philosophie d’une culture populaire (Flammarion Climats, 2019), Politics of the Ordinary, Care, Ethics, Forms of life (Peeters, Leuven, 2020), La société des vulnérables (with Najat Vallaud Belkacem), Gallimard, 2020, Wittgenstein, Politique de l’ordinaire, Vrin, 2021, TV-Philosophy, How TV series change our thinking, TV-Philosophy. The Ethics and politics of TV (University of Exeter Press, 2023).
She is the Principal Investigator of the ERC Advanced Grant project DEMOSERIES and the head of the national research project EUPRAXIE on culrtural industry.