Biography:José Medina (philosopher)

Short description: Spanish philosopher

José Medina is Walter Hill Scott professor of Philosophy at Northwestern University. He is a member of the American Philosophical Association, the British Wittgenstein Society, the North American Wittgenstein Society, the Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy, the Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy (SPEP), the Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology, and the Tennessee Philosophical Association.

Education and career

He graduated in Philosophy from the University of Sevilla. José Medina received his MA and Ph.D. from Northwestern University. He was assistant professor at Saint Louis University (1998-1999), then worked at Vanderbilt University in the position of Assistant Professor (1999-2004), Associate Professor (2004-2012) and Professor (2012-2017), before joining Northwestern University in 2017. He was also International Chair of Excellence in the Humanities, Charles III University of Madrid (2011-2012).

Research areas

His research focuses on critical race theory, gender and queer theory, philosophy of language, philosophy of mind, political philosophy, social epistemology, and 20th-century philosophy (European and American).

Awards and fellowships

In 2013 Medina's book The Epistemology of Resistance: Gender and Racial Oppression, Epistemic Injustice, and Resistant Imagination was the winner of the 2012 North American Society for Social Philosophy Book Award.

Books

• The Epistemology of Resistance: Gender and Racial Oppression, Epistemic Injustice, and Resistant Imaginations (Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2012) ISBN:0199929041
• Speaking from Elsewhere: A New Contextualist Perspective on Meaning, Identity and Discursive Agency (New York, SUNY Press, 2006) ISBN:0791469158
• Language: Key Concepts in Philosophy (London, Bloomsbury Academic, 2005) ISBN:0826471676
• The Unity of Wittgenstein's Philosophy: Necessity, Intelligibility, and Normativity (New York, SUNY Press, 2002) ISBN:079145388X

Articles

• “Color-Blindness, Meta-Ignorance, and the Racial Imagination”, Critical Philosophy of Race (January 2013)
• “Hermeneutical Injustice and Polyphonic Contextualism: Social Silences and Shared Hermeneutical Responsibilities”, Social Epistemology 26 (2), (2012), 201-220.
• “Memoria, Objetividad, y Justicia: Hacia una Epistemología de la Resistencia”, La Balsa de la Medusa 4 (2011), 47-74.
• “Toward a Foucaultian Epistemology of Resistance: Counter-Memory, Epistemic Friction, and Guerrilla Pluralism”, Foucault Studies No. 12, (October 2011).

External links

• José Medina's Northwestern University department page