ABOUT
Dr. Alison Duncan Kerr is a feminist philosopher whose research focuses on emotion theory and the many ways in which emotions contribute to our overall rationality. Kerr also has research interests in gender, love and sex, logic, and artificial intelligence.
Kerr is currently at The Work Inclusion Project contributing to groundbreaking equality work in Higher Education. Previously Kerr was the Founding Director of The St Andrews Institute for Gender Studies and its related Master's Programme, as a Research Fellow at the University of St Andrews.
Kerr is very excited to be joining the Philosophy Department at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign in the Autumn 2023!
Kerr received her PhD from The Ohio State University entitled “Affective Rationality” under the supervision of Professor Justin D’Arms (chair), and Professor William Cunningham, Professor Richard Samuels, and Professor Sigrún Svavarsdóttir. Before that, she received her MA from University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee entitled “Beyond the Meaning of ‘Meaning’: Rigidity and Semantic Externalism.” And, before that she spent two years and the University of Oregon and then transferred and got her undergraduate degree from Smith College.
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Kerr is currently at The Work Inclusion Project contributing to groundbreaking equality work in Higher Education. Previously Kerr was the Founding Director of The St Andrews Institute for Gender Studies and its related Master's Programme, as a Research Fellow at the University of St Andrews.
Kerr is very excited to be joining the Philosophy Department at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign in the Autumn 2023!
Kerr received her PhD from The Ohio State University entitled “Affective Rationality” under the supervision of Professor Justin D’Arms (chair), and Professor William Cunningham, Professor Richard Samuels, and Professor Sigrún Svavarsdóttir. Before that, she received her MA from University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee entitled “Beyond the Meaning of ‘Meaning’: Rigidity and Semantic Externalism.” And, before that she spent two years and the University of Oregon and then transferred and got her undergraduate degree from Smith College.
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