The metaphysics of agency and free will; causation and explanation; determinism, indeterminism and natural laws; minimal agents (e.g. plants and insects); the ontology of the mind.
The philosophy of mind and language, of race and racism, and of literature and culture; ethics (including the role of experiment); honour; idealisation and ideals; social identity; African and African-American intellectual history.
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