Elanor Taylor is an Associate Professor of Philosophy. She earned her PhD from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2012, and before coming to Johns Hopkins University she was an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Iowa State University.

Elanor Taylor’s research is primarily in metaphysics, particularly metaphysics of science, social metaphysics, and metametaphysics. For more information, see www.elanortaylor.org

Elanor Taylor regularly teaches undergraduate and graduate classes on topics in metaphysics, philosophy of science, social philosophy, and philosophy of gender. 

Selected Publications:

The Foundations of Social Metaphysics. (forthcoming) Oxford University Press.

“Explanatory Substantivity.” (forthcoming) Australasian Journal of Philosophy

“Changing Social Truth: A Commentary on Griffiths’ Truth and Social Reality.” (forthcoming) The Journal of Social Ontology.

“Substantive Social Metaphysics.” (2023) Philosophers' Imprint 23(18): 1-18

“Explanatory Distance.” (2023) British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 74(1):221-239

"Against Explanatory Realism." (2018) Philosophical Studies 175 (1):197-219

“Groups and Oppression.” (2016) Hypatia 31 (3): 520–536

“Collapsing Emergence.” (2015) Philosophical Quarterly 65 (271): 732-753 

“An Explication of Emergence.” (2015) Philosophical Studies 172 (3): 653-669