About Sharon Street
Born 1973. Sharon Street is an academic and philosopher.
Sharon Street (born 1973) is an American philosopher who is a professor of philosophy and chair of the Department of Philosophy at New York University. She specializes in metaethics, focusing in particular on how to reconcile our understanding of normativity with a scientific conception of the world.
Philosophical work
Street's work has been particularly influential in the fields of metaethics, where she defends a doctrine she calls "Humean Constructivism", a term she uses to differentiate her work from the "Kantian constructivism" of her mentor, Christine Korsgaard. In addition to the development of Humean Constructivism, Street has also been an influential critic of naturalist and non-naturalist accounts of moral realism, as well as quasi-realist and theist metaethical positions.
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American philosopher and academic
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Sharon Street was born in 1973.
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Sharon Street is an academic and philosopher.
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APA: Biography.guide. (2026). Sharon Street. https://biography.guide/sharon-street/
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