Rebecca Mason
Associate Professor
Full-Time Faculty
rmason2@usfca.edu
Kalmanovitz Hall 134
Biography
Rebecca Mason is originally from Nova Scotia, Canada, where she completed her BA and MA in philosophy at Dalhousie University. In 2015, she received her PhD in philosophy from Northwestern University. She specializes in metaphysics (especially social metaphysics), feminist philosophy, and social and political philosophy. She also has interests in epistemology and philosophy of language, especially where these intersect with her areas of specialization.
- Appointments
- Coordinator, Bay Area Feminism and Philosophy Workshop
- Vice President, University of San Francisco Faculty Association
- Sergeant at Arms, University of San Francisco Faculty Association
- Parliamentarian, University of San Francisco Faculty Association
- Policy Board Representative, University of San Francisco Faculty Association
- Education
- Northwestern, PhD in Philosophy, 2015
- Dalhousie, MA in Philosophy, 2008
- Dalhousie, BA in Philosophy, 2007
- Experience
- Assistant Professor of Philosophy, University of San Francisco
- Research
- Metaphysics
- Feminist philosophy
- Social and political philosophy
- Selected Publications
"Social Kinds are Essentially Mind-Dependent," Philosophical Studies, 2021
"Against Social Kind Anti-Realism," Metaphysics, 2020
"Rejecting the 'Implicit Consensus': A Reply to Jenkins," Thought, 2020
“Social Ontology,” (with Katherine Ritchie), Routledge Handbook of Metametaphysics, 2020
- Awards & Distinctions
Student Organization Advisor of the Year, University of San Francisco
Doctoral Fellowship, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, 2009-2013
McCarthy Award for Teaching Excellence in Philosophy, Northwestern University, 2012