José Medina (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, 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, then worked at Vanderbilt University in the position of Assistant Professor, Associate Professor and Professor, before joining Northwestern University in 2017. He was also International Chair of Excellence in the Humanities, Charles III University of Madrid.

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.

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 .

Books