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About Paul C. Taylor
- 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.
- He writes on race theory, aesthetics, pragmatism, social and political philosophy, and Africana philosophy.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.
- In 2019 he gave The Harvard Review of Philosophy‘s annual lecture.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.
- In Black Is Beautiful: A Philosophy of Black Aesthetics (2016) Taylor examines the intersection of African American philosophy and aesthetics.
- 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).
- He claims that African American culture is "not so much born as assembled".
- 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 MartÃn Alcoff and Luvell Anderson he edited the Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Race (2018).
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