Specialties:

Social and Political Philosophy, Africana Philosophy, Phenomenology, Existentialism

Biography:

Thomas Meagher is Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Memphis. He works in the areas of social and political philosophy, Africana philosophy, phenomenology, and existentialism, with particular interest in questions pertaining to race, gender, and coloniality and their capacity to shape and re-shape human values. He earned his doctorate at the University of Connecticut where he completed his dissertation, "Maturity in a Human World: A Philosophical Study." He has also served as a Visiting Assistant Professor at Quinnipiac University and as a Du Bois Visiting Scholar at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst.

Selected Publications:

LaRose Parris's Being Apart as a Contribution to Existential Phenomenology (https://blog.apaonline.org/2019/09/03/larose-parriss-being-apart-as-a-contribution-to-existential-phenomenology/)

Darkwater's Existentialist Socialism (https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/08854300.2018.1563752)

Losing Ground as Existential Reflection on Philosophy (https://blog.apaonline.org/2018/03/06/black-issues-in-philosophy-losing-ground-as-existential-reflection-on-philosophy/)