Sharon Street
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{{Infobox philosopher
| region = Western philosophy
| era = Contemporary philosophy
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|name = Sharon Street
|birth_date = 1973
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|school_tradition = Analytic philosophy
|main_interests = Metaethics, normative ethics
|alma_mater = Amherst College
Harvard University
|institutions = New York University
Harvard University
|notable_ideas = The metaethical implications of evolutionary biological explanations of normative capacities
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Sharon Street (born 1973) is a professor of Philosophy and Chair of the Department of Philosophy at New York University.{{cite web|title=Online directory (New York University)|url=http://philosophy.fas.nyu.edu/object/sharonstreet.html|publisher=New York University|access-date=8 March 2017}} She specializes in metaethics, focusing in particular on how to reconcile our understanding of normativity with a scientific conception of the world.
Education and career
Street received her B.A. from Amherst College in 1995 and her Ph.D. from Harvard University in 2003 under the supervision of Christine Korsgaard. Street's doctoral dissertation examined the metaethical implications of evolutionary biological explanations of our normative capacities, and whether such explanations might have an undermining effect on our moral and other normative commitments.
Street is currently Professor of Philosophy at New York University. She joined the NYU Philosophy Department in 2002.{{cite web|title=Curriculum Vitae (Sharon Street)|url=https://nyu.academia.edu/SharonStreet/CurriculumVitae|publisher=Academia|access-date=8 March 2017}}
Philosophical work
Street's work has been particularly influential in the fields of metaethics, where she defends a doctrine she calls "Humean Constructivism", a term she uses to differentiate her work from the "Kantian Constructivism" of her mentor, Christine Korsgaard.{{cite web|last=Jezzi|first=Nathaniel|title=Constructivism in Metaethics|url=http://www.iep.utm.edu/con-ethi/|publisher=IEP|access-date=8 March 2017}} In addition to the development of Humean Constructivism, Street has also been an influential critic of naturalist and non-naturalist accounts of moral realism, as well as quasi-realist and theist metaethical positions.{{cite web|last=Dorsey|first=Dale|title=Featured Philosopher: Sharon Street|url=http://peasoup.typepad.com/peasoup/2013/08/featured-philosopher-sharon-street.html|publisher=PEASoup|access-date=8 March 2017}}
Bibliography (selected)
- {{cite journal | last = Street | first = Sharon | title = A Darwinian Dilemma for Realist Theories of Value | journal = Philosophical Studies | volume = 127 | issue = 1 | pages = 109–166 | publisher = Springer | date = January 2006| doi = 10.1007/s11098-005-1726-6 | s2cid = 170656319 }}
- {{cite journal | last = Street | first = Sharon | title = Constructivism about Reasons | journal = Oxford Studies in Metaethics | volume = 3 | editor = Russ Shafer-Landau| pages = 207–245 | publisher = Oxford Clarendon Press | date = 2008| doi = 10.1093/oso/9780199542062.003.0009 | isbn = 978-0-19-954206-2 }}
- {{cite journal | last = Street | first = Sharon | title = In Defense of Future Tuesday Indifference: Ideally Coherent Eccentrics and the Contingency of What Matters |url=http://web.mit.edu/philosophy/colloquia/street.pdf | journal = Philosophical Issues| volume = 19 | pages = 273–298 | publisher = Wiley | date = 2009| doi = 10.1111/j.1533-6077.2009.00170.x }}
- {{cite journal | last = Street | first = Sharon | title = What is Constructivism in Ethics and Metaethics?| journal = Philosophy Compass | volume = 5 | issue = 5 | pages = 363–384 | publisher = Wiley | date = 2010| doi = 10.1111/j.1747-9991.2009.00280.x }}
- {{cite journal | last = Street | first = Sharon | title = Nothing 'Really' Matters, but That's Not What Matters| journal = Does Anything Really Matter: Parfit on Objectivity | editor = Peter Singer | publisher = Oxford University Press | date = 2016}}
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