AboutFacultyMary Kate McGowan

Mary Kate McGowan
Luella LaMer Professor of Women’s Studies and Professor of Philosophy, Wellesley College

Mary Kate McGowan
Professor of metaphysics, philosophy of language and law; also teaches logic and various seminars.
Mary Kate McGowan is the Luella LaMer Professor of Women’s Studies as well as Professor of Philosophy at Wellesley College. Her recent work explored the possibility that more speech than we realize (e.g., some pornography and racist hate speech) enact norms constitutive of harm. This possibility could even have free speech implications for these harmful categories of speech.

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