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Biography

Katharine Jenkins is Reader in Philosophy at the University of Glasgow, UK. Her research is primarily in social philosophy, especially the ontology of social categories such as gender, race, and disability. She is the author of ‘Amelioration and Inclusion: Gender Identity and the Concept of Woman’ (Ethics, 2016); ‘Toward an Account of Gender Identity’ (Ergo, 2018); ‘Ontic Injustice’ (Journal of the American Philosophical Association, 2020), and, with Aness Webster, ‘Disability, Impairment, and Marginalised Functioning’ (Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 2020). Her first monograph, Ontology and Oppression: Race, Gender, and Social Reality, was published in 2023.
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