Lorraine Code
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University of Guelph (Ph.D., 1978)
Lorraine Code | |
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| Born | October 19, 1937 |
| Academic background | |
| Education | Queen's University (B.A.) University of Guelph (Ph.D., 1978) |
| Thesis | Knowledge and subjectivity (1978) |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Philosophy |
| Institutions | York University |
| Main interests | feminist epistemology and the politics of knowledge |
Lorraine Code FRSC (born October 19, 1937) is a Canadian philosopher. She is Professor Emerita of Philosophy at York University in Toronto, Ontario, Canada and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. Her principal area of research is feminist epistemology and the politics of knowledge.
She earned her Bachelor of Arts (BA) at Queen's University and her PhD at the University of Guelph in 1978. After finishing her BA at Queen's in the 1950s, Code travelled to Germany on an exchange fellowship. She then spent the following years teaching in the United Kingdom before returning to Canada for graduate school.[1]
In 1987, Code was appointed a Canada Research Fellow at York University, and was later promoted to the title of Professor in the Department of Philosophy.[2]
In 2006, she published "Ecological Thinking: The Politics of Epistemic Location." [3]