Yosef E. Washington
Research Associate
Appointments
Lecturer in Philosophy; Postdoctoral Fellow in Philosophy
Area of Expertise
Philosophy of race, Social Ontology, Philosophy of Social Science, Social and Political Philosophy
Biography
My areas of expertise are Metaphysics, Philosophy of Social Science, Social and Political Philosophy and Philosophy of Race.
My research takes insights and methodologies from Social Science and Social Metaphysics to better clarify the role "metaphysical" concepts like "supervenience" , "causation" and "identity" inform not only our thinking in both the natural and social sciences, but also our normative thinking about the nature of institutions and conceptions of justice and moral and political obligation.
Education
Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania
B.A. Cornell University
Taught Courses
Publications
Washington, Y. (2025). Bio-Social Race as a Socially Salient Conception of Race. Philosophy of the Social Sciences, 55(2), 127-145. https://doi.org/10.1177/00483931241299883
Works in Progress
"Ontological Individualism, Institutional Racism and Interventions for Corrective Racial Justice"
"Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Reparations"
"One Realism to Rule them All: Bio-Social Realism as the sole Racial Realist View"
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