A leading figure in the philosophy of the social world, Margaret Gilbert has regularly applied her ideas in that area to significant problems in moral, political and legal philosophy, and her work has been influential in such fields as developmental psychology. She has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the American Council of Learned Societies, and has been awarded the Lebowitz Prize for philosophical achievement and
contribution. A member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, she will be president of the Pacific branch of the American Philosophical Association in 2023-4.