José Medina is Walter Hill Scott professor of

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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

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(SPEP), the

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, and the Tennessee Philosophical Association.

Education and career

He graduated in Philosophy from the

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. 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,

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(2011-2012).

Research areas

His research focuses on

critical race theory Critical race theory (CRT) is a cross-disciplinary examination, by social and civil-rights scholars and activists, of how laws, social and political movements, and media shape, and are shaped by, social conceptions of race and ethnicity. Goa ...

, 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

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br>Book Award

Books

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

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).

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