 To learn more about Professor Medina, read his interview: Language and Identity: A Contextualist Perspective |
José Medina
Associate Professor of Philosophy
Contact Information
Email: jose.m.medina@vanderbilt.edu
Office: 111 Furman Hall
Phone: 615-343-0322
Fax: (615) 343-7259
Degrees
Ph. D., Northwestern University (1998), Philosophy
M.A., Northwestern University (1995), Philosophy
B.A., University of Sevilla (1991), Philosophy
Research Area
Dr. Medina’s research interests are in Philosophy of Language, Philosophy of Mind, Epistemology, American Philosophy, Hispanic Philosophy, and Philosophy of Culture and Ethnicity.
Recent Courses
Dr. Medina’s recent seminars have been Meaning and Identity, Social Theories of Mind, Truth and Interpretation, and Wittgenstein.
Publications
- Speaking From Elsewhere: A New Contextualist Perspective on Meaning, Identity, and Discursive Agency (SUNY, 2006)
- Language, Key Concepts in Philosophy series (Continuum, 2005)
- "Identity Trouble", Symposia on Gender, Race and Philosophy. (1, #1, 2005)
Critical reviews of Professor's Medina's Essay:
Marilyn Frye, Category Skepticism and its Cure: Commentary on Medina's "Identity Trouble"
Jorge Garcia, Identity Confusion: Commentary on Medina's "Identity Trouble"
Peg O'Connor, Identity Trouble and the Politics of Privilege: Commentary on Medina's "Identity Trouble"
Professor Medina's reply, Being Critical About Identity: Reply to Frye, Garcia, and O'Connor
- “Anthropologism, Naturalism, and the Pragmatic Study of Language”, The Journal of Pragmatics (forthcoming in 2004)
- “Pragmatism and Ethnicity: Critique, Reconstruction, and the New Hispanic”, Metaphilosophy (forthcoming in 2004)
- “Deflationism and the True Colors of Necessity in Wittgenstein’s Tractatus“, Dialectica (forthcoming in 2004)
- “On Being ‘Other-Minded’: Wittgenstein, Davidson, and Logical Aliens”, International Philosophical Quarterly (forthcoming in 2004)
- Identity and Ethnicity, edited volume for The Journal of Speculative Philosophy (2004)
- “Identity Trouble: Disidentification and the Problem of Difference”, Philosophy and Social Criticism (29, #6, 2003), 655-680
- “Wittgenstein and Nonsense: Kantianism, Psychologism, and the Habitus“, International Journal of Philosophical Studies (11,#3, 2003), 293-318
- The Unity of Wittgenstein’s Philosophy: Necessity, Intelligibility, and Normativity (Albany: SUNY Press, 2002)
- “Verificationism and Inferentialism in Wittgenstein’s Philosophy”, Philosophical Investigations (24, 4, 2001), 304-313
