Joshua Glasgow

Senior Lecturer
BA University of California, Santa Cruz
MA University of Memphis
PhD Univerity of Memphis

Profile

Josh is originally from Portland, Oregon, in the United States. He came to Victoria University 's Philosophy Programme in 2005. Prior to that, he taught at Occidental College in Los Angeles and California State University , Bakersfield.

Research Areas

Josh's main research interests are in ethical theory and the philosophy of race. In ethics, the main question he works on is what makes right acts right and wrong acts wrong, and he has particularly Kantian leanings on this issue. In the philosophy of race, the main, interlocking questions that engage him are whether race should be part of our discourse and practice, whether race is real, and what the meanings of racial terms are and how they should be identified.

In addition to the issues in ethics and race that currently occupy Josh's research agenda, he has also published on supervenience, and he has interests in such other areas as the philosophy of action, just war theory, and political philosophy.

Current Teaching

Philosophy 105: The Big Questions

Philosophy 106: Contemporary Moral Problems

Philosophy 107: Media and the Arts

Philosophy 262: Moral and Political Philosophy

Philosophy 361/461: Philosophy of Race

Philosophy 409: Topics in Contemporary Philosophy (Korsgaard's The Sources of Normativity )

Selected Publications

"On the Methodology of the Race Debate: Conceptual Analysis and Racial Discourse," Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, forthcoming

"Kant's Conception of Humanity," Journal of the History of Philosophy , forthcoming

" A Third Way in the Race Debate," The Journal of Political Philosophy , forthcoming

"On the New Biology of Race," The Journal of Philosophy , vol. 100 (Sept. 2003): 456-474

"The Impossibility of Superdupervenience," Philosophical Studies , vol. 113 (April 2003): 201-221, with Michael Lynch

"Expanding the Limits of Universalization: Kant's Duties and Kantian Moral Deliberation," Canadian Journal of Philosophy , vol. 33 (March 2003): 23-48

More information can be found on Josh's Web site: http://www.vuw.ac.nz/staff/joshua_glasgow/