Sharon Street

Sharon Street (born 1973) is a Professor of Philosophy and Associate Chair of the Department of Philosophy at New York University. Her work specializes in metaethics, primarily on how to reconcile our understanding of normativity with a scientific conception of the world.

Street's work has been particularly influential in the fields of metaethics and normative ethics, in particular defending a form of ethical subjectivism referred to as "Humean Constructivism", a term she uses to differentiate her work from the "Kantian Constructivism" of her mentor, Christine Korsgaard. Alongside working on a positive account of Humean Constructivism, Street's work has been influential in criticising naturalist and non-naturalist accounts of moral realism, as well as quasi-realist and theist metaethical positions.