Paul C. Taylor

Paul Taylor is the W. Alton Jones Professor of Philosophy and chair of the philosophy department at Vanderbilt University, where he launched the Racial Justice Humanities Lab. His research focuses primarily on social philosophy, critical race theory, American philosophy, and Africana philosophy. Taylor previously was a professor of philosophy and African American studies at Pennsylvania State University and a philosophy professor at Temple University. His books include Black Is Beautiful: A Philosophy of Black Aesthetics, which received the 2017 monograph prize from the American Society for Aesthetics (ASA), and On Obama; he edited the four-volume The Philosophy of Race. A vice president and president elect of ASA, Taylor was a founding co-editor of the journal Critical Philosophy of Race.