Cheshire Calhoun
Cheshire Calhoun is a professor of Philosophy at Arizona State University and research professor at the Center for the Philosophy of Freedom at the University of Arizona. She is best known for her work in feminist philosophy as well as writing on gay and lesbian philosophy and the morality of same-sex marriage.
Education and career
Calhoun is the second daughter of John B. Calhoun, an ethicist best known for behavioral sink theory.She earned her Ph.D. in philosophy at the University of Texas, Austin in 1981, and taught at College of Charleston and Colby College before moving to Arizona State in 2007.
In 2014, she was elected as the board chair of the American Philosophical Association where she has previously served on the executive committee for the APA's Eastern Division as well as the APA's committee for LGBT philosophers.
In 2020, she was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.