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About Professor Gray

Professor Gray joined the department in 2017. He received his PhD and MA from Harvard University and his BA from Columbia University. Gray鈥檚 areas of specialization include the philosophy of race and racism, the philosophy of cognitive science, the philosophy of language, AI ethics, the philosophy of mind, and African American philosophy. His current research focuses on the social ontology of race, racial epithets, philosophy of psychopathology, philosophy of artificial intelligence, and cognitive phenomenology. In addition to the above areas, Gray also has teachings interests in logic, philosophy of film, AI ethics, and philosophy of science (general, evolutionary biology, and cognitive psychology).

Journal Articles

Gray, David Miguel. 2024d. 鈥淗ow Quotation and Referential Intentions Modulate the Derogatory Force of Slur Utterances.鈥� Frontiers in Communication 9 (November). .

Gray, David Miguel. 2024c. 鈥淒istance Relativism and the Limits of Moral Assessment: Fricker and Williams.鈥� Philosophia. .

Gray, David Miguel. 2024b. 鈥淒oxastic and Epistemic Sources of Offense for Slurring Terms.鈥� Acta Analytica, September. .

Gray, David Miguel. 2024a. In Defense of Introspective Affordances. Review of Philosophy and Psychology. .

Gray, David Miguel. 2023. Aspiration and Self-Realization: The Ameliorative Projects of Steve Biko. Philosophy of the Social Sciences 53. Sage Journals: 142鈥�162. .

Gray, David Miguel. 2022c. Social Ontologies of Race and their Development. The Southern Journal of Philosophy 60: 4鈥�20. .

Jeffers, Chike, and David Miguel Gray. 2022b. Introduction to Charles Mills鈥檚 鈥淭he Wretched of Middle-Earth: An Orkish Manifesto.鈥� The Southern Journal of Philosophy 60: 102鈥�104. .

Varga, Somogy, and David Miguel Gray. 2022a. Naturalism, Disease, and Levels of Functional Description. The Journal of Medicine and Philosophy: A Forum for Bioethics and Philosophy of Medicine 47: 482鈥�493. .

Gray, David Miguel, and Benjamin Lennertz. 2020. Linguistic Disobedience. Philosopher鈥檚 Imprint 20: 1-16. .

Gray, David Miguel. 2014b. Counting-ish Creatures and Conceptual Content. Mind 123: 1141鈥�1146. .

Gray, David Miguel. 2014a. Failing to Self-Ascribe Thought and Motion: Towards a Three-Factor Account of Passivity Symptoms in Schizophrenia. Schizophrenia Research 152: 28鈥�32. .

Gray, David Miguel. 2013b. Racial Norms: A Reinterpretation of Du Bois鈥� 鈥淭he Conservation of Races.鈥� The Southern Journal of Philosophy 51: 465鈥�487. .

Gray, David Miguel. 2013a. How Specific Can You Get?: Troubles for Cognitive Phenomenology. Southwest Philosophy Review 29: 163鈥�172. .

Gray, David Miguel. 2012. HOT: Keeping up Appearances? Southwest Philosophy Review 28: 155鈥�163. .

 

Edited Journal Issue

鈥淣ew Ontologies of Race鈥� 39^th Annual Spindel Supplement, The Southern Journal of Philosophy, September 2022. Volume 60: 1. 1-136. DOI:

 

Select Presentations

鈥淒oxastic and Epistemic Sources of Offense for Slurring Terms.鈥�
    -Symposium, Pacific APA, San Francisco, CA, April 16-20, 2025.

鈥淎I in 糖心Vlog传媒 Panel Discussion鈥�
    -Code Crew, 糖心Vlog传媒, December 5, 2024

鈥淲hy Eliminating (Some) Guardrails ought to be an End-goal for Ethical AI.鈥�
    -Global Harwell Forum: Collateral Damage: The Human Cost of Unethical AI. October 19, 2024

鈥淟LMs and the Regulation of Truth-telling in the EU AI Act鈥�
    -Institute for Intelligent Systems, 糖心Vlog传媒, September 8, 2024

鈥淐onceptual Amelioration in Biko鈥檚 Emancipatory Theory of Race鈥�
    -糖心Vlog传媒, Department of Philosophy, September 8, 2023

鈥淐onceptual Amelioration, Linguistic Disobedience, and the Emancipatory Goals of Normative Theories of Race鈥�
    -13^th Annual Auburn Philosophy Conference: Language & Value, March 16-17, 2023.

鈥淒igital Citizenship in the Age of AI鈥�
    -STEM Professional Development series, West TN STEM Hub, Spring 2023

"Racial Objects"
    -Social Ontology and Collective Intentionality, University of Vienna, August 24, 2022
    -Social Ontology Conference, Tufts University, August 25, 2018

鈥淎melioration, Descriptivism, and Black Consciousness: Goal-oriented theories of race in Haslanger, Biko, and Du Bois鈥�
    -Philosophy of Social Science Round Table, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, April 1, 2022

"Linguistic Disobedience"
    -Language: Uses and Misuses. Cave Hill Philosophy Symposium, June 18, 2021

鈥淎n Agentive Phenomenology that is a Cognitive Phenomenology鈥�
    -Recent Work on Phenomenal Intentionality, Eastern APA, January 8, 2020

鈥淎ttempts to Appropriate Slurs and Grice鈥檚 First Maxim of Quality鈥� (with Ben Lennertz)
    -Post-Truth Workshop, German Linguistic Society (DGfS), March 6, 2019

鈥淐ognitive Architecture and Related Issues鈥�
    -Fed Ex Institute of Intelligent Systems, 糖心Vlog传媒, November 14^th, 2017.

 

Public Facing Philosophy

鈥淐ritical Race Theory: What it is and What it isn鈥檛鈥�, The Conversation. June 30th, 2021. 

鈥淩acial Ontology: A guide for the Perplexed.  Part I:  General Problems鈥�.  Video for WiPhi Open Access Philosophy. 

鈥淩acial Ontology: A guide for the Perplexed.  Part II:  Naturalist Accounts of Race鈥�.  Video for WiPhi Open Access Philosophy. 

鈥淩acial Ontology: A guide for the Perplexed.  Part IIIA:  Socio-historical Accounts of Race:  Artifacts and Naturally-based Kinds鈥�.  Video for WiPhi Open Access Philosophy. 

鈥淩acial Ontology: A guide for the Perplexed.  Part IIIB:  Socio-historical Accounts of Race:  Socio-historical theories鈥�. 

鈥淔ailing to Ascribe Thought and Motion: Part I鈥� at Imperfect Cognitions 

鈥淔ailing to Ascribe Thought and Motion: Part II鈥� at Imperfect Cognitions