Dr. Yael Peled

Yael Peled is a Research Fellow at the department of socio-cultural diversity at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity (MPI-MMG). Her primary research interests include the contemporary moral, social and political philosophy of language; the politics of multilingual and multicultural societies in democratic theory; interdisciplinarity in the social sciences and the humanities; and complexity theory and ethics in public policy research. She holds a DPhil in Politics and International Relations (political theory) from Nuffield College, Oxford, and a BA in Political Science and General Linguistics (Summa cum Laude) from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Committed to a principled interdisciplinary programme of research, she has held multiple fellowships and other appointments in political science and social policy (Hebrew University; the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute; McGill University; the Faber Arts, Sciences and Humanities Residency of Catalonia in Olot), social and political ethics (Université de Montréal; McGill University; KU Leuven; UCLouvain), education (King’s College London), medicine (McGill University), philosophy of science (Forschungskolleg Humanwissenschaften/Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main), and Jewish philosophy (Universität Hamburg).

Current research projects

• Linguistic Justice in Democratic Theory and Practice
• The Ethics of Linguistic Integration: Realities, Expectations, Prospects (co-PI, with Leigh Oakes, Huw Lewis and Gwennan Higham; project funding: the Leverhulme Trust)
• The Language Ethics of Human-Machine Communication
• Public Health Ethics in Multilingual and Multicultural Societies
• Interdisciplinarity and Complex Adaptive Systems in Applied Ethics

Recent publications

• “The Complexities of Linguistic Discrimination.” (with Anna Drożdżowicz). Philosophical Psychology, special issue: Understanding Bias [online first]. https://doi.org/10.1080/09515089.2024.2307993
• “Solidarity and/in Language: Theory, Practice, Rhetoric.” Global Justice: Theory, Practice, Rhetoric, special issue: Theorising Solidarity, 14 (1), 79-102 (2024). https://doi.org/10.21248/gjn.14.01.261
• “The Practical Ethics of Linguistic Integration: Three Challenges.” Metaphilosophy Symposium: Linguistic Justice and Migration, 54 (5), 583-597 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1111/meta.12653

Further details: www.peledy.com