Allison Weir

Allison Weir is a Canadian social and political philosopher, a Faculty Associate in the Centre for Ethics at the University of Toronto, and a Fellow of the Centre for Humanities and Social Change at the Humboldt University in Berlin. She co-founded the Institute for Social Justice in Sydney, Australia, where she was Research Professor and Director of the Doctoral Program in Social Political Thought, and was previously Associate Professor of Philosophy and Gender Studies at Wilfrid Laurier...See more

Allison Weir is a Canadian social and political philosopher, a Faculty Associate in the Centre for Ethics at the University of Toronto, and a Fellow of the Centre for Humanities and Social Change at the Humboldt University in Berlin. She co-founded the Institute for Social Justice in Sydney, Australia, where she was Research Professor and Director of the Doctoral Program in Social Political Thought, and was previously Associate Professor of Philosophy and Gender Studies at Wilfrid Laurier University. She is the author of Identities and Freedom and Sacrificial Logics: Feminist Theory and the Critique of Identity. See less