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Rae Langton is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Cambridge, and a Professorial Fellow at Newnham College. In 2013, she was inducted as a fellow in to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Langton has also spoken publicly about the plight of women in academic philosophy, contributing a column to the New York Time's about the subject in 2013.

Education and career
Langton received her bachelor's degree from the University of Sydney in 1985, attended Princeton University's doctoral program from 1986-1990, and received her doctorate from Princieton in 1995. From 1990-8, Langton served as a Lecturer and Senior Lecturer at Monash University (though for the 1997-1998 school year she was seconded from Monash, and acted as a research fellow at the Australian National University. She served as a Professor of Moral Philosophy at the University of Edinburgh from 1999-2004, and a Professor in the Department of Linguistics and Philosophy at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology from 2004-2013. In 2013, she accepted a Professorship at the University of Cambridge.  Langton has also held visiting appointments or fellowships at eleven different schools.

Research areas and publications
Langton has written two books - Kantian Humility: Our Ignorance of Things in Themselves in 1998 and Sexual Solipsism: Philosophical Essays on Pornography and Objectification in 2009. Kantian Humility was generally well-received, with Ralph C.S. Walker commenting in Mind (journal) that Kantian Humility was "...one of the most original and thought-provoking books on Kant to have appeared for quite some time. Its scholarship and its philosophical insight are equally impressive, and it raises philosophical questions of considerable interest for the present day." Sexual Solipsism was also well-received, with Mary Kate McGowan commenting in the Notre Dame Philosophical Review that "...Langton's crisp, clear, and careful argumentation proves that philosophy has much to offer the socially, politically and even legally charged issues addressed here... This is feminist scholarship at its very best. It’s first-rate philosophy." Langton has also written more than fifty articles about subjects ranging from feminist approaches to pornography, to animal ethics, to hate speech.