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Dr. Cassie Herbert

Assistant Professor
Office
STV Stevenson Hall
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Biography

I work at the intersections of social philosophy, feminist philosophy, and philosophy of language. In both my research and my teaching, I'm centrally interested in how systems of power, privilege, oppression, and resistance function in everyday interactions. I believe that the things we do in our daily lives matter, and can play a profound role in shaping our communities and our interactions with one another.

Please visit my website cassieherbert.com for more information about my research or the courses I teach.

Teaching Interests & Areas

Social Philosophy, Political Philosophy, Feminist Philosophy, Philosophy of Sex, Philosophy of Language, Social Epistemology

Research Interests & Areas

- Pragmatics of derogatory terms, slurs, and everyday harmful language
- Pragmatics of online harassment
- Understanding and responding to sexual violations
- Scaffolding sexual agency

PhD Philosophy

Georgetown University
Washington, DC

BA Philosophy & Politics

Bates College
Lewiston, ME

Journal Article

The Speech Acts of #MeToo
Cassie Herbert.
APA Newsletter on Feminism and Philosophy, 19 (1), 16-20, (2019)
Moral Ecologies and the Harms of Sexual Violation
Quill R Kukla, Cassie Herbert.
Philosophical Topics, 46 (2), 247-268, (2018)
Online Misogyny and Philosophy
Cassie Herbert.
Women in Philosophy Blog of the APA, (2018)
Ingrouping, Outgrouping, and the Pragmatics of Peripheral Speech
Cassie Herbert, Rebecca Kukla.
Journal of the American Philosophical Association, 2 (4), 576-596, (2016)
Precarious projects: The performative structure of reclamation
Cassie Herbert.
Language Sciences, 52 (Special Issue on Slurs), 131-138, (2015)