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Kevin A Richardson, Assistant Professor edit![Kevin A Richardson](https://fds.duke.edu/photos/fac/u23028.jpg) I am a philosophy professor who interprets the social world and seeks to change it, too. I study the nature and meaning of social categories—things like race, gender, and sexual orientation. My current research question is: how do social categories operate in a diverse, fragmented, and ambiguous social world? In a series of papers, I argue that social categories are often indeterminate and scalar (viz., come in degrees).
I received my PhD in Philosophy from MIT in 2017. I received my BA in Philosophy from UNC Chapel Hill in 2012. I specialize in metaphysics and philosophy of language. Office Phone: (919) 660-3050 Email Address: ![](https://fds.duke.edu/db/aas/Philosophy/faculty/kar104/email.png) ![send me a message](https://fds.duke.edu/photos/fac/New.gif) Web Page: http://www.kevinrichardson.org/
Education:
Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2017
- Recent Publications
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- Richardson, K. "Social construction and indeterminacy." Analytic Philosophy 65.1 (March, 2024): 37-52. [doi] [abs]
- Richardson, K. "Social Reasons." Journal of Applied Philosophy (January, 2024). [doi] [abs]
- Richardson, K. "The Metaphysics of gender is (Relatively) substantial." Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 107.1 (July, 2023): 192-207. [doi] [abs]
- Richardson, K. "Critical social ontology." Synthese 201.6 (June, 2023). [doi] [abs]
- Richardson, K. "Exclusion and Erasure: Two Types of Ontological Opression." Ergo an Open Access Journal of Philosophy 9 (March, 2023). [doi]
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