Draft:Elanor Taylor

Dr. Elanor Taylor is a Scottish philosopher. Taylor is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Johns Hopkins University. She specializes in metaphysics and the philosophy of science with competency in the philosophy of gender. In 2023-2024, Taylor was a residential fellow at the National Humanities Center to complete a monograph on social metaphysics.

Education
Taylor received her Ph.D. in Philosophy from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2012.

Notable Publications
“Substantive Social Metaphysics.” (2023) Philosophers' Imprint 23(18): 1-18

“Explanatory Distance.” (2023) British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 74(1): 221-239

"Against Explanatory Realism." (2018) Philosophical Studies 175 (1): 197-219

“Groups and Oppression.” (2016) Hypatia 31 (3): 520–536

“Collapsing Emergence.” (2015) Philosophical Quarterly 65 (271): 732-753