Leonard Harris (philosopher)

Leonard Harris in 2005

Leonard Harris is a professor of Philosophy at Purdue University. He also serves as director of the Philosophy and Literature Ph.D. program at the university.

He has previously been a member of the graduate faculty, and former Director of African American Studies at Purdue University. He is a specialist in the philosophical work of Alain LeRoy Locke.

He is one of the founding members behind Philosophy Born of Struggle (PBOS).

Honors

• William Paterson University’s University Distinguished Visiting Professor, 2002–2003;
• Non-resident Fellow, W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for Afro-American Research, Harvard University, 2001–2002;
• Fulbright Scholar, Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia, 1998–1999;
• Visiting Scholar, King's College, Cambridge, UK, Visiting Scholar, summer 1984,
• Portia Washington Pittman Fellow, Tuskegee Institute, 1980–81,
• Morton Center for Independent Study, Fellow, 1976-77.

Bibliography

Authored

• Alain LeRoy Locke: The Biography of a Philosophy, co-author, C. Molesworth, Chicago University Press, 2008, 448 pp.^[1]

Edited

• Philosophy Born of Struggle: Afro-American Philosophy from 1917, Iowa: Kendall Hunt Publishing Company, 1984, 316 pp.
• The Critical Pragmatism of Alain Locke, New York: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 1999, 357 pp.
• The Philosophy of Alain Locke, Harlem Renaissance and Beyond, Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1989, 332 pp
• American Philosophies, (Co-editor with Anne S. Waters, Scott Pratt), Oxford: Blackwell Publishing Company, 2002, 456 pp.
• Racism, New York: Humanity Press, 1999, 484 pp.

See also

• American philosophy
• List of American philosophers

References