Paul C. Taylor

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Paul Christopher Taylor (born September 19, 1967) is an American philosopher, author, and W. Alton Jones Professor of Philosophy at Vanderbilt University. Previously he taught philosophy and African American studies at Pennsylvania State University. [1] He writes on race theory, aesthetics, pragmatism, social and political philosophy, and Africana philosophy. [2]

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Taylor has published three monographs, edited two collections of essays, and has written many articles in peer-reviewed journals. His book Black Is Beautiful: A Philosophy of Black Aesthetics (Blackwell, 2016) was the winner of the American Society for Aesthetics Outstanding Monograph Prize in 2017. [3] In 2019 he gave The Harvard Review of Philosophy's annual lecture. [4]

Taylor works mostly on the philosophy of race. His first book Race: A Philosophical Introduction (2004) explores the concept of race from a metaphysical, pragmatic and analytical point of view. [5] In Black Is Beautiful: A Philosophy of Black Aesthetics (2016) Taylor examines the intersection of African American philosophy and aesthetics. [6] The term 'black aesthetics' refers to "the practice of using art, criticism, or analysis to explore the role that expressive objects and practices play in creating and maintaining black life-worlds" (p. 12). [7] He claims that African American culture is "not so much born as assembled". [8] His book On Obama (2016), examines the historic election of the first African-American president of the United States of America, Barack Obama. Together with Linda Martín Alcoff and Luvell Anderson he edited the Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Race (2018).

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References

  1. ↑ Owens, Ann Marie Deer. "New faculty: Paul C. Taylor". Vanderbilt University. Retrieved 2019-04-22.
  2. ↑ "Black Aesthetics and the Philosophy of Race: An Interview with Paul C. Taylor – AAIHS". 18 January 2018. Retrieved 2019-04-22.
  3. ↑ "Black is Beautiful: A Philosophy of Black Aesthetics". Wiley.com. Retrieved 2019-04-22.
  4. ↑ "Harvard Review of Philosophy Annual Lecture: Paul C. Taylor (Vanderbilt)". philosophy.fas.harvard.edu. Retrieved 2019-04-22.
  5. ↑ Monahan, Michael J. (2013-09-01). "Taylor, Paul C. 2013. Race: A Philosophical Introduction. 2nd edition. Malden, MA: Polity Press". South African Journal of Philosophy. 32 (3): 285–289. doi:10.1080/02580136.2013.837659. ISSN   0258-0136. S2CID   145544677.
  6. ↑ Clavel-Vazquez, Adriana (2019). "Black is Beautiful: A Philosophy of Black Aesthetics". The British Journal of Aesthetics. 59 (2): 233–236. doi:10.1093/aesthj/ayy011.
  7. ↑ Ortega, Mariana (2018-07-11). "Black Is Beautiful: A Philosophy of Black Aesthetics by Paul C. Taylor (review)". Critical Philosophy of Race. 6 (2): 287–292. doi:10.5325/critphilrace.6.2.0287. ISSN   2165-8692.
  8. ↑ Bicknell, Jeanette (2017-08-22). "Paul C. Taylor , Black is Beautiful: A Philosophy of Black Aesthetics . Reviewed by". Philosophy in Review. 37 (4): 172–173. ISSN   1920-8936.
  9. ↑ Taylor, Paul C. (2003). Race: A Philosophical Introduction. Polity.
  10. ↑ Taylor, Paul C. (2015). Black is Beautiful: A Philosophy of Black Aesthetics. Wiley-Blackwell.
  11. ↑ Taylor, Paul C. (2015). On Obama. Routledge.
  12. ↑ Taylor, Paul C. (2012). The Philosophy of Race: Critical Concepts in Philosophy. Routledge.
  13. ↑ Alcoff, Linda Martín; Anderson, Luvell; Taylor, Paul C. (eds.). The Routledge companion to philosophy of race. ISBN   9781134655717. OCLC   1069713883.
  14. ↑ Taylor, Paul C. (2013). "Bare Ontology and Social Death". Philosophical Papers. 42 (3): 369–389. doi:10.1080/05568641.2013.854028. S2CID   143848708.
  15. ↑ Taylor, Paul C. (2009). "The Last King of Scotland or the Last N—-R on Earth? The Ethics of Race on Film". Contemporary Aesthetics.
  16. ↑ Taylor, Paul C. (2005), Darby, D.; Shelby, T. (eds.), "Does Hip Hop Belong to Me? The Philosophy of Race and Culture", Hip Hop and Philosophy, Open Court, pp. 79–91, retrieved 2019-04-22
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