Alice Crary

Alice Crary is the University Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at The New School for Social Research and a Visiting Fellow at Regent’s Park College, University of Oxford. A moral and social philosopher, Crary has written widely on issues in metaethics, moral psychology and normative ethics, effective altruism, philosophy and literature, philosophy and feminism, critical animal studies, critical environmental studies, critical disability studies, and Critical Theory. She is the author of three books, including “Beyond Moral Judgement,” and has co-edited five collections, including “The Good It Promises, the Harm it Does: Critical Essays on Effective Altruism.” Crary is a founding co-convener of The Prize for Distinguished Achievement in Social Philosophy, which seeks to recognize groundbreaking philosophical work tackling questions of social epistemology, social ontology, theories of race, gender, class, ability, animality, and the natural environment. She is a member of a number of international research groups devoted to subjects such as ordinary language philosophy, social justice and critical theory, and feminism and philosophy.