Associate Professor of Philosophy
B.A., Morehouse College, 1991
Ph.D., Rutgers University, 1997
Professor Taylor works in the areas of aesthetics, philosophy of culture, Africana philosophy, philosophy of race, social and political philosophy, and pragmatism in the United States. His current project connects John Dewey's aesthetic theory to Africana political philosophy. He is also at work on a book on Black aesthetics.
Selected Bibliography
Race: A Philosophical Introduction (Polity - Blackwell, 2004)
"What's the Use of Calling Du Bois a Pragmatist?" Metaphilosophy (Special issue - The Range of Pragmatism and the Limits of Philosophy) 35: 1-2 (2004)
"Appiah's Uncompleted Argument: Du Bois and the Reality of Race," Social Theory and Practice 26:1, 103-28 (Spring 2000)
"Malcolm's Conk and Danto's Colors, or: Four Logical Petitions Concerning Race, Beauty and Aesthetics" Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 57:1, 16-20 (Winter 1999); reprinted in Beauty Matters, Peg Brand, ed. (Indiana University Press, 2000); and in African American Literary Theory, Winston Napier, ed. (New York University Press, 2000)
"Funky White Boys and Honorary Soul Sisters," Michigan Quarterly Review 36:2, pp 320-335 (1997) reprinted in Signs Of Life In the U.S.A.: Readings On Popular Culture For Writers, 3rd ed., Sonia Maasik and Jack Solomon, eds. (Bedford-St. Martin's, 2000)
Recent Courses
• Political Philosophy
• Special Topics: Philosophy and Critical Race Theory
Contact Information
Office: 729 Anderson Hall
Mailing Address:
Department of Philosophy
Anderson Hall
Temple University
Philadelphia, PA 19122
Phone: (215) 204-5620